Tag: why overeat

• Watsontown, PA

  “How’d you find Watsontown?” asked one of my 111 high school classmates after Stoic and I ended up there as we drove home from Niagara Falls last month. She, incidentally, is among the handful of us who didn’t stay there after graduation. Well, as a vaudeville comic might say, with great difficulty. I think because…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  September 15, 2018

  Aging, Comfort food, Compulsive eating, Depression, Depression and anxiety-related food issues, Emotional side of weight loss, Food addiction, Rural life, Taking care of ourselves, Warrior Run High School Class of ’62, Why overweight?

  Academy Street by Mary Costello, High school reunion, obesity, self-image, why overeat

• Mother’s Day — it’s complicated

  The cliché is that psychiatrists’ patients talk about how much they hate their mothers. In fact, my shrink met my mother once and never stopped talking about how much he disliked her! I’ve always given her points for being brave enough to go with me to one of my sessions, but, in truth, felt validated…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  May 12, 2018

  Depression, Depression and anxiety-related food issues, Emo eating, Emotional side of weight loss, Family, Food addiction, Why overweight?

  looking for emotional warmth from food, obesity, self-image, understanding food addiction, why overeat

• A fine day for running off the rails; roasted asparagus with a college education

  This would be the day for going stark-raving, nutso, bat-crap, screaming like a banshee, inhaling everything in sight, edible and non-. The air is like damp, gray wool. I’m reading William Styron, the master of depressive darkness. It’s Daughter’s Day and one daughter won’t answer the phone, the other had her daughter answer rudely. I’m afraid…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  September 25, 2016

  Addiction, Asparagus, Building better habits, Emo eating, Mind games and weight loss, Roasting vegetables, Seasonal food, Seniors and weight loss, Weight Watchers

  binging, cheese, cooking from garden, healthy eating, obesity, Vegetables, why overeat

• My sister, my self

  Jill is dead. My younger sister, 69, my sweet, funny, bright, troubled, generous, kind, sad sister died at the beginning of this first day of summer. I’ve been waiting, but not ready, for this day since she nearly starved herself to death as a high-schooler. We had no word for anorexia then or any tools…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  June 20, 2016

  Handling anxiety without food, Handling loss without eating, Taking care of ourselves

  A death in the family, Anorexia, healthy eating, self-image, why overeat

• 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

• I’m as corny as Kansas in August (insert favorite upbeat lyrics here)

    I like to imagine that in happy, healthy families the children grow up to expect and focus on the positive. “Don’t you ever think things might turn out OK?” asked a heartfriend soon after getting to know me. Why, no, it’s not in my DNA. I grew up waiting for the other, much scarier,…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  March 19, 2015

  Addiction, Balance, Depression, Food habits, Mind games and weight loss

  healthy eating, obesity, over-eating, weight loss, why overeat

• It was I all along or, even better, I was in here the whole time

  That’s a grammar police swipe at It Was Me All Along, Andie Mitchell’s memoir of coming to terms with her food addiction (clarkson potter, 2015). Mitchell is a (now) beautiful blogger (canyoustayfordinner.com) who, like so many of us, has had her more than whale-size phases. I wanted to like this book for many reasons, including the…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  February 1, 2015

  Addiction, Family, Food addiction, Maintaining weight loss, weight loss, Why overweight?

  binging, healthy eating, It Was Me All Along by Andie Mitchell, obesity, The Trip to Echo Spring by Olivia Laing, weight loss, why overeat

• Smaller plates; butterscotch apple crisp in the slow cooker

  I have a friend who says all she did to lose weight was use small plates at suppertime. I’m married to a former farmer who recognizes small plates as suitable only for dessert — it runs in the genes. In January we were at a convention of farmers at Asheville’s famed Grove Park Inn, and…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  March 11, 2014

  Desserts, Free will and eating, Fruit, Slow cooker recipes

  apples, butter, cinnamon, oats, The Atlantic, why overeat

• 40 days and 40 nights

  I thought I’d try not eating in front of the television for Lent. I know, right? How difficult can that be? Jesus didn’t even have television; it’s giving up a luxury only momentarily each day. I failed on the first try. Didn’t yet feel up to driving 35 minutes each way to go to church,…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  March 6, 2014

  Easter, Faith and religion, Food habits, Frederick Buechner, Lent

  Breaking a habit, healthy eating, Lousy habits, obesity, over-eating, why overeat

• Planet Fatso; tortellini slow-cooker soup

  Elizabeth Taylor in her old age said the elastic waistband was a girl’s best friend. Diet gurus, though, advise “The elastic waistband is bad for your diet” so I’ve been trying to wear real waistbands with buttons and zippers and stuff. And clothes that fit, not caftans suggestive of a camel ride. I feel, in…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  January 25, 2014

  Compulsive eating, Emo eating, Exercise, Slow cooker recipes, Soup, Weight loss

  cheese, Drew Carey, Elizabeth Taylor, Garfield comic, obesity, Spinach, Tomatoes, Tortellini, why overeat