Hi, Liam here – I’ve just been given authoring rights to this fantastic blog, so I thought I’d write an article about my experience of anorexia. I met D’Arcy (@KarmaTiger) through Twitter after searching the term ‘manorexia’ a few months ago and stumbled across this site. I was subsequently interviewed and mentioned a few times about my disease. So let me begin by starting this post off with the following words….. Anorexia – once it hits it never goes away. [...]
It’s September, and for most of us in the Northern Hemisphere, that means one thing – winter’s coming. Ok, so it means more than one thing, but the fact is that the cold weather will be here before we know it. One of the challenges of eating right during the winter is, oftentimes, convenience – there’s no food in the house, and we don’t want to brave the cold weather to get something from the supermarket, so we order pizza, [...]
I get a lot of people emailing me asking for quick tricks for dieting. On the plus side they seem to understand that the 100 days of starvation I performed wasn’t healthy, but they still want fast weight loss. The rapidity of my weight loss was part of the problem. It makes the body panic and want to store fat, which is one reason why I’d regained 20 lbs in just a few weeks during recovery. If I had to [...]
The other day on Twitter people were talking about the so-called Lemonade Diet. Originally made popular in 1976 by Stanley Burroughs, this out-dated diet was re-released and re-popularized in 2005 with a new, more modern look in the form of Peter Glickman’s book Lose Weight, Have More Energy, and Be Happier in 10 Days. The book includes information on the obesity epidemic, toxins in foods, and the ”detoxification process”. The Lemonade Diet isn’t much different from most “cleanse” or “detox” diets. Basically, you [...]
In most parts of the county, it’s beginning to show definite signs of fall. Although the passing of summer always makes me a little sad, knowing what’s coming makes me feel a lot better. And what’s coming? Comfort food. We all have our own definition of comfort food; to one person, it might be mom’s macaroni-and-cheese. To others, it might be homemade tomato soup, or a nice big dish of homemade lasagna. Regardless of what it is, there’s one thing [...]
Until relatively recently in human history, salt was a precious commodity. Urban legend has it that Roman soldiers were given money specifically to buy salt or were paid with salt, thus the word ‘salary,’ from the Latin salarium, and it’s why we say someone not good at their job isn’t worth their salt. Obviously if you had to fight barbarian hordes to buy substantial quantities of the stuff, or have your wife defy God and turn back to watch the [...]
Wait, what? Oh, right. Your pants lie to you. For years we males have been baffled by women’s sizing systems. I mean, how someone can be a size negative one and still occupy three dimensional space makes as much sense as a left handed hammer. “Not us” we told ourselves. “Our pant sizes are just waist circumference in inches, by inseam in inches.” As it turns out, that’s crap. Men’s apparel manufacturers have started slipping us the same drug they’ve [...]
It’s getting to be that time of year again – the time when, although we can still enjoy the fruits of summer, the signs of autumn are undeniable. We all wish summer could last – especially when it brings such delicious fruits and vegetables. But time moves on, and summer turns to fall. But there is a way to eat that summer-fresh food, even in the coldest winter . Canning your own food is easier and simpler than you think. [...]
I recently showed the following to a friend of mine. Her reaction: “Jamba juice is real?” Apparently Jamba Juice has been made fun of so many times, some people assume it’s just a joke. Like some other drink chains (be it coffee, smoothies, or whatever) the drinks are pretty pricey. They also got in some hot water over an allegedly ripped-off ad campaign that John Hodgman (@hodgman) of The Daily Show and Mac ads fame tweeted about - though to be fair [...]
For me, today is yesterday. Not that I’m listening to Culture Beat as though it’s current, tuning my TV with rabbit ears, and wearing corduroy pants in a non-ironic way (or, indeed, in any way. You can keep ‘em, hipsters). I mean literally, it’s still yesterday for me. I’ve not yet been to bed. Last night a buddy of mine popped ’round. Because he’s a molecular biologist and I’m a nerd, we talked about things like free-forming infinite length carbon [...]
One thing I often hear when talking about proper nutrition is “I’d like to eat better… but it’s so expensive!” What people overlook is it’s actually cheaper in the long run, and you get a better quality of life in the time in between. To draw a crude analogy, at one point in my life I was making far more money than I do now. Back then I bought high quality clothing; even a simple solid colour T-shirt would set [...]
A few months ago, my husband and I purchased chicks to raise for the eggs. A couple of weeks ago, those chickens started laying eggs – and hoo, boy, did they start laying! They’ve been laying an average of a dozen a day, so we’ve been eating a LOT of eggs around here. In honor of the multitude of eggs, I decided to post the recipe for a popular Mexican breakfast dish – Huevos Rancheros. Essentially, it’s fried eggs over [...]
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