Brrr & Grrr

The good news: I do not have a stress fracture in my right hip or upper right femur. Yaay! No crutches for me. However, I do have bursitis. That kinda sucks. It does seem to be decreasing though so the PT has advised that bike riding is okay now. Still no weight-bearing exercise like walking or hiking.

I haven't riden my bike since Thanksgiving Day. Really. I'm going crazy too.  Excited that I can get back to riding without hurting my hip, but sadly, it's been freaky cold here lately. Not bike riding conditions by a long shot.

In the meanwhile, as I wait for the weather we should be having, I've started a new blog: Sassy Banana. Come by and check us out. If you have that "sassy something" and would like to join the bunch, let me know.

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Quotable - snuck up on me

"I didn't decide to become anorexic. It snuck up on me disguised as a healthy diet, a professional attitude....

I finally understood that by being on a perpetual diet, I had practiced a "disordered" form of eating my whole life. I restricted when I was hungry and in need of nutrition and binged when I was so grotesquely full I couldn't be comfortable in any position but laying down. Diets that tell people what to eat or when to eat are the practices in between....Obsessing about what and when to eat is not normal, natural, and orderly. Thinking about food to the point of obsession and ignoring your body's signals is a disorder."

~ Portia de Rossi from her memoir Unbearable Lightness

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stuffed peppers

News flash - I made dinner the other night using a new recipe! As usual it was a simple dish. It turned out pretty well, although I think the flavoring could be amped up. Do you have a favorite recipe for stuffed peppers?

Here's a link to the clean eating recipe I used. The only change I made was to add brown rice to the stuffing mixture. Will use fresh garlic in the saute next time and will parboil the peppers before baking them.

* This is not a photo of what I served but it's pretty, no?

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Quotable - debating calories

"And now we live in a world in which the calorie is not a measurement of heat or energy, but of willpower and integrity. We are told implicitly and explicitly that calories equal poison and we should limit them at every opportunity. A quick stroll through the grocery store turns up low-cal versions of nearly everything, from mashed potatoes to oatmeal to dressing to cookies. What happened to eating food in it’s natural form, including all of the energy it was intended to offer? (and all of the taste it was intended to have?"

~ Ashley Solomon, The Great Calorie Debate

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doctor, doctor, tell me the news

Seeing the nurse practitioner today to follow up on the xrays I had taken last week to determine if I have a stress fracture or if it's osteoarthritis in my right hip.

I'm going to ask her about increasing my thyroid med back to where it was a year ago. Since it's been lowered, I've been gaining weight at the rate I was losing it before. Frustrating. It was lowered in response to a routine dexa showing I had osteopenia. Sometimes it feels as if I've gone down some weird health rabbit hole. Would love to press reset and be back where I was 18 months ago.

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Do you think I'm fat?

National Eating Disorders Awareness Week

It's Time to Walk, Talk, Tweet, Post, and Blog About it!

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it's time to talk about it

I started reading Portia de Rossi's new memoir today. So far, my impression is that she is putting it all out there perhaps to further her own healing/recovery and to help others who are struggling with self-acceptance; whether it is their body image and relationship with food or their sexual identity. Or both.

Turns out it's also National Eating Disorders Awareness Week. This year's campaign asks us all to do one thing. Here's my one thing: reading this book and encouraging everyone who happens by to help get the word out about the importance of understanding eating disorders.

Will you join me by posting something about National Eating Disorders Awareness Week on your blog?

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life's inevitable difficulties

The more you think about your own self, the more self-centred you are, the more trouble even small problems can create in your mind. The stronger your sense of ‘I’, the narrower the scope of your thinking becomes; then even small obstacles become unbearable. On the other hand, if you concern yourself mainly with others, the broader your thinking becomes, and life’s inevitable difficulties disturb you less.

~ Dali Lama

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it had to be you

“You can explore the universe looking for somebody who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself,
and you will not find that person anywhere.”

Happy Valentine's Day: it had to be YOU

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V-Day

www.nataliedee.com

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a cheesy surprise

Turns out eating certain hard cheeses such as gouda, edam, emmenthal and Jarlsburg, can lower the risk of developing cancer.

"...these cheeses contain a form of vitamin K called vitamin K2 (the scientific name is menaquinone) that is both antiangiogenic (blood vessel-inhibiting) and also kills cancer cells directly. The studies indicate that eating as few as 2 slices of these hard cheeses a day can lower your overall risk for cancer, including lung cancer and prostate cancer."

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scorpacciata

Doesn't this just make all kinds of sense? Especially if you live in a somewhat temperate area of the world.

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debut

My first youtube project...a tribute to my one-of-a-kind mother in law, Aileen. She passed away on January 26th.

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