Category: Importance of others to recovering addict

• Weight Watchers watching

  Sunday’s USA Today crossword features shades of blue. Appropriate, because I am feeling cobalt, indigo, azure, sky, baby, teal and several others since going back to Weight Watchers three weeks ago (my fourth trip to the scales is tomorrow). The first week I was just anxious — how was I going to figure out the nifty WW phone app?…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  May 3, 2016

  Addiction, Building better habits, Compulsive eating, Depression, Emo eating, Importance of others to recovering addict, Starting over, Stress eating, Sugar, Weight Watchers

  binging, healthy eating, obesity, self-image, why overeat

• What’s your heroin?

  Mine’s food; computer solitaire in a pinch. I haven’t played solitaire since Oct. 10 (the day I heard Anne Lamott talk about being involved in your life). I still feel the itch every time I sit at the computer. Nobody ever died playing solitaire, of course, but plenty of us have wasted precious hours because…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  February 7, 2014

  Balance, Being present in our lives, Compulsive eating, Emo eating, Food addiction, Importance of others to recovering addict

  Anne Lamott, Flaubert, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Russell Brand

• Full moon setting; rosemary mashed sweet potatoes with caramelized shallots

  Florida-grapefruit yellow moon dropping to the horizon outside study windows this morning, something I’d miss if I could sleep past 4 a.m. The last of the moonlight makes luminous the mist exhaled by the sleeping pastures, and I wonder, again, how I can leave this extraordinary beauty for a more prosaic site with more people,  more life.…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  November 28, 2012

  healthy cooking, Holiday cooking, Holiday eating, Importance of others to recovering addict, Weight loss, Why overweight?

  cooking from garden, Cousins, Family, healthy eating, side dishes, sweetpotatoes