Category: Why overweight?

• Puppy poop

  It’s hard to fault a day in which a kitty shares her lunch chipmunk. Even a day when the air is like wet bread. Puppy and I walked 2.5 20-minute miles this morning. For her, that’s not even stretching her paws. For me, it’s faster than lightning, and I was soaked at the end of […]

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  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  July 11, 2012

  Animal rescue, Compulsive eating, Maintaining weight loss, Weight loss, Why overweight?

  healthy eating, High school reunion, Holiday eating, self-image

• Blue nights, golden days and a 21st-century three-bean salad

  Joan Didion has always been a bit diaphanous, a bit hide-and-seek for my tastes,  probably never more so than in “Blue Nights” (Alfred A. Knopf, 2011), a gauzy remembrance of the 2005 death of her daughter, Quintana Roo. You have to Google Quintana Dunne Michael to find out how she died. Her grief-stricken mother offers […]

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  June 25, 2012

  Seasonal food, Stress eating, Summer salads, Why overweight?

  “Blue Nights”, Black Beans, Dr. Oz., green beans, Joan Didion, Sugar Peas

• 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

• Set points, sloppy joes and settling points

  I think I’m happy to have found this article by Joseph Hooper in the March issue of Elle magazine. It explains why I went at weight work this morning with a bang that’s left me still breathing hard 20 minutes afterward. There’s no reason for this piece to be titled “Sexy and I Know It,” […]

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  April 25, 2012

  good food, healthy cooking, Maintaining weight loss, Sandwiches, Simple foods, vegetables, Why overweight?

  Beans, Exercise and weight, george blackburn, healthy eating, Keeping weight off, Sloppy joes

• Neuroses, chocolate bunnies and tuna casserole

  I will never be able to eat everything I want to eat. I will never be able to eat enough to make me “happy” (read: numb). I will never be able to eat enough to make me feel loved, appreciated, beautiful, fill in the blank (and this I mean literally — the hollow that is […]

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  April 1, 2012

  Casseroles, Chocolate, Fish, Food addiction, good food, healthy cooking, Self control, Stress eating, Weight loss, Why overweight?, Willpower

  Dealing with food addiction, Managing cravings, Tuna noodle casserole, Turn off food switch

• Spring still sprung **

  “At most, there are two kinds of dysfunctional families: those who don’t talk enough and those who talk too much.” Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation, 1994 I grew up in the first kind and married into one of each. Visits to my first in-laws featured late-night, alcohol-fueled rants of the George and Martha “Who’s Afraid of […]

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  February 3, 2012

  Exercise, Food addiction, Weight loss, Why overweight?

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

• Personal trainers;re-gaining that which has been LOST

  These are my personal trainers. I found them by the road. They don’t wear Spandex. They don’t swan around, showing off their ripped abs. They don’t have books in development. They don’t scream at me; they work for kibbles. They’re so pleased when I walk even a little bit that their tails go in circles. […]

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  January 18, 2012

  Exercise, Food addiction, Weight loss, Why overweight?

  binging, healthy eating, Metabolic whammy for the committed dieter, obesity, over-eating, why overeat

• Turkey soup and poison

  I don’t know when Carrie Fisher got to be my guru of choice but I saw this pithy quote from her in Sunday’s paper and had to use it toot sweet: “Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.” Somehow I got through “Wishful Drinking” without noticing that line, but […]

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  November 29, 2011

  good food, Simple foods, Soup, Why overweight?

  healthy eating, Turkey, Vegetables, weight loss

• Tryout, blowout

  Some people drink when they’re nervous or pump themselves up with drugs. Some people just face their fears (imagine!). I ate malted milk Whoppers until I felt sick. Then I got up this morning and went outside and tried the new mare. She’s a 13-year-old quarterhorse, 16 hands tall and built like a supermodel, which means she’s […]

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  November 7, 2011

  Exercise, Food courage, Owning horses, Rural life, Why overweight?

  healthy eating, Horseback riding, New Horse, over-eating, Sugar load

• Three hours, shrimp pitas

  I’ve had a bleach tray in my mouth for 2 and 1/2 hours, supposed to keep it in for 3. You know what this means: no eating, drinking (coffee!) through a straw. There is probably no better illustration of my impatience with being in the moment. Three hours feels like 300. Kind of like the […]

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  November 3, 2011

  good food, healthy cooking, Simple foods, vegetables, Why overweight?

  Peppers, Roast peppers, Shrimp