Category: Willpower

• Gregory Pardlo’s Air Traffic and zucchini tots (no, really, both of these things)

  Honestly, I was going to opine about zucchini and how thanks to Maggie M. at my YMCA, I’ve learned about zucchini tots which are just like tater tots, except, you know. Then this morning I finished  Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gregory Pardlo’s “Air Traffic: A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood in America” (Borzoi, 2018). A frequent…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  July 22, 2018

  Addiction, Depression and anxiety-related food issues, Food addiction, Food habits, Seasonal food, Sheet pan cooking, Willpower

  Air Traffic: A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood in America, cheese, cooking from garden, Gregory Pardlo, zucchini

• 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

• Chinese New Year, fried rice

  Happy first day of the Year of the Dragon! I am making this the first day of my 2012 as well because the 22 days preceding have been pretty much a wasteland (waist-land?) as far as diet and exercise. On NPR’s “The Splendid Table” yesterday Lynn Rosetto Kasper talked to John Tierney, author of Willpower:…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  January 23, 2012

  Chinese food, Rice, Self control, vegetables, Willpower

  chicken, Fried rice, Garlic, Ham, onions, weight loss