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clevermanka) wrote2010-07-22 10:22 am
clevermanka) wrote2010-07-22 10:22 am
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Seasoning
While I don't always like the topics of conversation that come up on ModernPaleo, today she has a lovely little tutorial on seasoning a cast-iron skillet. I'll be doing this to mine (which has lost its seasoning somehow, and now stuff sticks to it) this winter. No way I am doing this when we've got heat indexes of 108F.
Also found on the internets today was one of the cutest LOLCATS entries evar. Click the photo to go to the larger version on the I Can Haz Cheezburger site.
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Yesterday I made a pact with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
miischelle to go grain-free for a week. For me, the actual going grain-free is sort of...normal life. But her post contained the phrase "I'm not going to buy it, order it, ask for it, and I'm going to try very hard not to stare at it longingly." It was the stare at it longingly I placed as my hurdle. Because I'm still craving that god-damned Cinnamon Toast Crunch.
Keeping my brain and hands equally occupied helps me forget about food when I'm not hungry. So I pulled out the visual journal and made an entry about food cravings. As I was writing my feelings and thoughts, I realized something. I mean, I knew (in the back of my mind) but I hadn't ever acknowledged that I have an eating disorder/food addiction. News flash, right? But last night, I realized that whoa, this has been a life-long thing, and over the past couple years it's gotten worse (a lot worse). I'm going to do some research on dealing with food disorders and food addiction. If I don't find resources that work for me, I might look into some sort of one-on-one therapy or maybe even hypnotism. Some friends of mine used hypnotism with various levels of success (for smoking, panic attacks) and I've always thought it sounded cool--even regretted that I had nothing to use it for. Ha! Oh, silly girl-in-denial.
Edit: Okay, fuck all the internet information (I almost put that in quote marks because really it is no helpful information at all) on compulsive eating and food disorders. What a load of annoying crap! Jesus. If this is what it's like for alcoholics and drug addicts, I understand why people are loathe to enter treatment. "Distract yourself!" "Find God!" "Come to our meetings!" UGH. What a bunch of fucking annoying bullshit. This is supposed to help...how? I mean, is this approach seriously beneficial for some people? o_O
In a moment of serendipity, Mark Sisson's Primal Blueprint Insider newsletter this week contained some terribly appropriate links. How To Break Bad Habits, How To Develop Good Habits, as well as Ten Baby Steps to Going Primal.
Also, this morning's email delivered to me Trainer Chris D's first workout. It starts...with jumping rope. *cringe* He said he'd be targeting all my weak areas right off the bat. We never even discussed jump rope, ever! How did he know?
Also found on the internets today was one of the cutest LOLCATS entries evar. Click the photo to go to the larger version on the I Can Haz Cheezburger site.
*ded*
Yesterday I made a pact with
miischelle to go grain-free for a week. For me, the actual going grain-free is sort of...normal life. But her post contained the phrase "I'm not going to buy it, order it, ask for it, and I'm going to try very hard not to stare at it longingly." It was the stare at it longingly I placed as my hurdle. Because I'm still craving that god-damned Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Keeping my brain and hands equally occupied helps me forget about food when I'm not hungry. So I pulled out the visual journal and made an entry about food cravings. As I was writing my feelings and thoughts, I realized something. I mean, I knew (in the back of my mind) but I hadn't ever acknowledged that I have an eating disorder/food addiction. News flash, right? But last night, I realized that whoa, this has been a life-long thing, and over the past couple years it's gotten worse (a lot worse). I'm going to do some research on dealing with food disorders and food addiction. If I don't find resources that work for me, I might look into some sort of one-on-one therapy or maybe even hypnotism. Some friends of mine used hypnotism with various levels of success (for smoking, panic attacks) and I've always thought it sounded cool--even regretted that I had nothing to use it for. Ha! Oh, silly girl-in-denial.
Edit: Okay, fuck all the internet information (I almost put that in quote marks because really it is no helpful information at all) on compulsive eating and food disorders. What a load of annoying crap! Jesus. If this is what it's like for alcoholics and drug addicts, I understand why people are loathe to enter treatment. "Distract yourself!" "Find God!" "Come to our meetings!" UGH. What a bunch of fucking annoying bullshit. This is supposed to help...how? I mean, is this approach seriously beneficial for some people? o_O
In a moment of serendipity, Mark Sisson's Primal Blueprint Insider newsletter this week contained some terribly appropriate links. How To Break Bad Habits, How To Develop Good Habits, as well as Ten Baby Steps to Going Primal.
Also, this morning's email delivered to me Trainer Chris D's first workout. It starts...with jumping rope. *cringe* He said he'd be targeting all my weak areas right off the bat. We never even discussed jump rope, ever! How did he know?
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Your comment about not thinking it strange to obsess over doughnuts if that's my addiction makes total sense. It's just that the fact that I even have an addiction is sort of news to me. HA!
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But, for what it's worth, you should make note to yourself that it's not like you are craving OMG ALL UNHEALTHY FOOD NOTHING BUT UNHEALTHY FOOD GIVE IT TO ME NOW! You aren't of a mind set of "it's unhealthy, i'm eating it whether I like it or not or particularly want it or not", at least as far as I ever see. So, I don't see an issue of the self-destructive (it is bad therefore i will eat it!) nature or a lack of control issue (don't particularly *want* french fries but they are carbs so give them here!). I see you 'obsessing' over particular foods that taste really good to you.
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MmHmmm. And foods that have good emotional connections.
It's interesting that I got over thinking soda tasted good (I can't even swallow a mouthful of cola anymore, although ginger ale is still tasty once in a while), and all commercial ice creams taste just dreadful now. The smell of packaged cookies makes my nose wrinkle, and even pizza didn't taste good when I tried it a couple weeks ago.
But Jesus H., those damn doughnuts. Not just any doughnuts, either. Gotta be a particular kind. They don't have any fewer chemicals than the cookies, and many more than the pizza. So what is going on here? Why do those still taste good? A very interesting and as-yet unanswered question.