Category: Overeaters Anonymous

• Addiction, the sequel (again)

  “None of her actions was in the least inauthentic, but her degree of alienation from goals, actions, simple states of being — the acute, inescapable self-surveillance of the addict — resembles that rarefied ontological space of the depressive, the anxious, the ill, the poet.” (Joshua Cody’s [sic] — A Memoir, W.W. Norton & Co., 2011)…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  October 2, 2012

  Emo eating, Food addiction, Handling anxiety without food, Handling loss without eating, Maintaining weight loss, Overeaters Anonymous, Stress eating, Why overweight?

  Joshua Cody, Lost Memory of Skin, Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers, Russell Banks, [sic]

• Saying goodbye

  You asked what it was like to put our youngest on the plane for 4 months in East Africa.  Sad.  Scary. Lonely, even though her father and I share this challenge. We’re both eating like bears getting ready for a Wyoming winter (I’ve put back on 9 of the pounds I lost for my high…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  September 5, 2012

  Aging, Compulsive eating, Emo eating, Handling loss without eating, Overeaters Anonymous, Self control

  Addiction, binging, healthy eating, Narcissism, self-image, why overeat

• Holy hunger

  On April 17 my friend Dannye lent me a book that’s changed my life. One month and 4 days may not seem like a long time, but it’s a long time for me not to overeat. And thanks to Margaret Bullitt-Jonas’s Holy Hunger (Vintage Books, 1998), I don’t think “long time”  anymore but a day at a…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  May 22, 2012

  Compulsive eating, Food addiction, Overeaters Anonymous, Seniors and weight loss, Weight loss, Why overweight?

  healthy eating, Holy Hunger, Margaret Bullitt-Jonas, obesity, over-eating, self-image