orthorexia

Where is the Line Between Your Weight and Yourself?

September 29, 2010

Girl Disappearing by Curly Tops Perfectly round. A circular platform encircled by a raised bar. Like a stage! The kind that lights up underneath and lifts the performer above the crowd as mist billows beneath! And indeed I am being watched. But there is no applause and I am given no chance for a monologue. Perhaps, I think – silently, to myself – it reminds me less of a stage and more of a teleportation device. Closing my eyes I wait for a beam of light to descend and obliterate the particles of my mortal shell, to reduce me, no [...]

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My Disordered Eating Past

February 5, 2010

Polly is dead. She committed suicide on February 8, 2008, a likely result of her lifelong struggle with anorexia. I don’t know Polly but for some reason the news of her death went through me like a cold shiver, the same way it does any time I hear about a eating disordered woman who loses the battle. So I did what any intelligent stalker-type does these days: I googled her. I discovered that her death made headlines because she was one of three eating-disordered women profiled in the HBO documentary “Thin” that aired back in 2006. Not watching TV, it [...]

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The Cost of Counting Calories

September 3, 2009

A while ago the now-defunct Elastic Waist was currently looking for “anti-diet” tips, a concept which I love both for the opportunity of turning the diet industry’s sound bites back on them and for the opportunity to practice being witty and pithy. However, despite my being both witty AND pithy (in my own esteemed opinion) they did not chosen any of my tips. So I’m going to share my favorite anti-diet tip with you: “Keep a food journal in which you write down every single bite you eat. That way, if dieting doesn’t work out for you, at least you’ll [...]

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Guest Posting at MizFit Today! Plus Yogurt Recipe!

April 30, 2009

I want this outfit. While I’m wishing for things, I’d also like my waist back to wear it with. To know me in real life is to know one thing about me. No, not my spunky gym craziness (which has sadly diminished since becoming preggo) or my bad dance moves that I will willingly showcase in any public setting or even the fact that I always travel in a pack of wild boys. No, what most people remember about me is my singular ability to ruin any food I come into close contact with. I’m a bad cook. The best [...]

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Drinks On Me! (Yes, That Means a Giveaway!)

February 6, 2009

If you think my food quirks are weird, you should try buying me a drink. Truly, it’s a wonder I still have friends that will be seen with me in public places any more. Gym Buddy Paul found this out the hard way the other day at a TurboKick social gathering (that’s right – we’re all such TurboFans that we get together outside of Turbo to talk about Turbo. Sometimes we even bust out our moves together. Think line dancing. But louder. And with violence. It’s hawt.) Paul noticed that I was the only one in our raucus group sans [...]

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When School Lunch Attacks

January 16, 2009

“Chips and a rice krispie treat!” My first-grader chirped happily. “That’s what you had for lunch?” I asked incredulously as the preschooler started the tantrum process (everything must be equal in this household) and the baby took up a chorus of “Chip! Chip!!!!” “Oh yeah, and a chocolate milk.” (Note to self: the mystery of the two cavities before age 7? Solved.) Normally, given the societal cacophony regarding that stuff we put into our mouth and also need to live, I try to reserve judgment on what my son has for lunch on the one day a week he’s allowed [...]

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Orthorexic Mind Games, Book Edition

September 29, 2008

If we’re going to be friends, there is something you should know: you must never, under any circumstances, give me a diet/nutrition book. Even if I ask you for it. First of all, I’ve probably read it. I’ve read them all. Or if I haven’t read it, I’ve read something very similar to it because truly there are only so many ways to adulterate your food. Second, I’ll do bad things with it. Case in point: This weekend. Over the space of two days I burned through Real Food: What to Eat and Why by Nina Planck, The Eat Clean [...]

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Orthorexia: Behind the Scenes on 20/20

September 8, 2008

“Sancho!” I yelled, smiling so tightly that my cheeks hurt as I threw open my front door. “Charlotte! You’re even more beautiful in person!” He didn’t miss a beat, despite the fact that I’d just called him by his last name as if we were old college buddies. His name is actually Miguel Sancho, producer for ABC’s entertainews’ show 20/20, and he had been sitting outside my house for the past 20 minutes in a little red sports car the like of which my suburban Minnesotan neighborhood never sees. It was as awkward of an introduction as they come. Rather [...]

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Orthorexia 20/20 Clips and Article

September 7, 2008

Here are the links to the video segments on ABC’s site: Healthy Food, Unhealthy Obsession: Pt. 1http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=5739648 Healthy Food, Unhealthy Obsession: Pt. 2http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=5739687 Shorter “In Touch” segment: http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=5757006 Here’s the link to the article on ABC’s site:http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Stossel/story?id=5735592&page=1 Thanks to everyone who watched me on 20/20 Friday night and for all the supportive comments you left! Over all I was pleased with how it turned out. I didn’t really like how they linked me to the raw foods movement as, funnily enough, that’s one diet I’ve never tried. I also didn’t like how they made it sound like it was still [...]

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Watch 20/20 Tonight

September 5, 2008

Remember this?? If you have nothing better to do with your Friday evening then check me out on 20/20 tonight on ABC. Just promise you’ll still love me in the morning;) And yeah, that’s how much warning they gave me.

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