Comments on: Losing Weight at the Speed of Life http://www.open-secrets.com/observations/losing-weight-at-the-speed-of-life/ Exploring the Obvious Tue, 10 Jan 2012 07:40:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Karen http://www.open-secrets.com/observations/losing-weight-at-the-speed-of-life/comment-page-1/#comment-394 Karen Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:15:56 +0000 http://www.open-secrets.com/?p=865#comment-394 After my April vision fast in Arizona I came across a book at a bookstore in Tuscson: Skinny Bitch. There's another one called Skinny Bastard. Both by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin. In spite of the controversial title, these books are actually concerned with eating healthy, and convinced me to go from vegetarian to vegan. Although I couldn't read the chapter on the cruelty done to the animals we eat, and was already convinced in that regard, I hadn't realized the harm done to dairy cows. Free range, organic eggs might be okay, I haven't made my mind up yet on that one... Anyway, I loved the way these authors tell it like it is. My current challenge is to look at and understand my overindulgence in chocolate. Perhaps the curiousity and not-knowing you describe in your subsequent posting can be my allies as I look at the way I think I need to support myself to get the day going and feel some energy in my body. Who am I if I don't treat my body that way? I have been noticing for a while that it makes me feel kind of sick to eat that much chocolate... So I am going to try the Skinny Bitch suggestion of starting the day with fruit. It feels like a kindness to do this. After my April vision fast in Arizona I came across a book at a bookstore in Tuscson: Skinny Bitch. There’s another one called Skinny Bastard. Both by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin. In spite of the controversial title, these books are actually concerned with eating healthy, and convinced me to go from vegetarian to vegan. Although I couldn’t read the chapter on the cruelty done to the animals we eat, and was already convinced in that regard, I hadn’t realized the harm done to dairy cows. Free range, organic eggs might be okay, I haven’t made my mind up yet on that one… Anyway, I loved the way these authors tell it like it is.

My current challenge is to look at and understand my overindulgence in chocolate. Perhaps the curiousity and not-knowing you describe in your subsequent posting can be my allies as I look at the way I think I need to support myself to get the day going and feel some energy in my body. Who am I if I don’t treat my body that way? I have been noticing for a while that it makes me feel kind of sick to eat that much chocolate… So I am going to try the Skinny Bitch suggestion of starting the day with fruit. It feels like a kindness to do this.

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