Day 133: Unexpected Lessons
Good evening everyone, I had an appointment this morning at 10:15 with Karen, my nutritionist. As you know, I cancelled my meeting with her last Thursday because I felt I would break my own promise to...
View ArticleDay 135: Becoming A Positive Role Model
Good afternoon everyone, Last night, I had a really interesting experience. I was tutoring my cousin (she is technically considered a half cousin, but to me its the same thing). I have to give you some...
View ArticleDay 136: Feeling Productive
Good afternoon everyone, Today I turned in my first news story for my summer school class and it feels really good. At first my day started kind of hectic, because when I did my body check this...
View ArticleDay 138: Three Lessons Learned Today
Good evening everyone, So here is my day today in list format: 1. Woke up sore (again). 2. Ran errands with my grandma (despite feeling sore, I did go out, which is good). 3. Bought these brownie...
View ArticleDay 139: Fearless Courage
Hello everyone, As you may know by now, on Sunday mornings I wake up and watch a pastor named Joel Osteen on TV. Despite the fact that I am Jewish, he speaks a lot about the power of positive thinking...
View ArticleDay 140: For My Angel
Hi everyone, It’s early in the morning and I come writing to you all coming off a very emotional night. Around 10 p.m. last night, I started loathing my body. I don’t know how else to phrase it. I hate...
View ArticleDay 141: The Delicious Plan
Hi everyone, I don’t have much to say today, so this post will be short and sweet. This morning, I had an amazing workout with my trainer Kim. I did things that I never thought I would be able to do,...
View ArticleDay 142: 30 Day Photo Cleanse
Hello everyone, OK, here is the rundown of today. I started my morning today by taking a picture of my body in the mirror and then comparing it to a photo that I look in the exact same outfit 43 days...
View ArticleDay 149: A Battle Turned Into A Journey
Hello everyone, I am a little bit scared right now, because I am starting to feel like I made it through the worst part of my recovery, and that now, I can handle anything. But I know life doesn’t work...
View ArticleDay 152: Guilt Ridden
Hello everyone, One week ago, I made the decision to open an old door to a previous relationship that I had chosen to end a little over three years ago. I ended the relationship, not because I didn’t...
View ArticleDay 153: Finding Strength Through Others
Good afternoon everyone, I have been trying to think of a good way to start today’s post, but I am left speechless today. After yesterday’s post, I woke up this morning to find several personal emails...
View ArticleDay 154: Sprinting Out Of The Comfort Zone
Good evening everyone, Let me just get right into this post-today was a huge day for me in my recovery. And when I mean huge, I mean major-milestone worthy. Up until today, I had two rules with Karen,...
View ArticleDay 155: Life Is Good
Hi everyone, Today I had such a nostalgic experience. I am putting together a big piece for the newspaper at school about the different kinds of students living in the various kinds of housing we have...
View ArticleDay 156: Turns Out, Everyone Has Insecurities
Good evening everyone, Again, my apologies for another late blog post, today was another crazy day. So, if you all remember, exactly a month ago to this day, I wrote a post about my cousin’s Bat...
View ArticleDay 162: A Moment Of Clarity
Good afternoon everyone, Today I was sitting in my summer school class, which is over on Tuesday, and our publisher of the newspaper, also our professor, announced that she was giving an award for the...
View Article168: When Ed Takes Over…
Hello everyone, Ed took over me today. After Karen, my nutritionist, accidentally told me I had gained one pound this week, (even though I told her two weeks ago not to tell me if I gain or lost...
View ArticleDay 169: Half Full
Hi everyone, Up until an hour ago, I thought today was a good day for me. I thought it was a good day because up until an hour ago when I got home, I was successfully restricting just a tiny bit. I...
View ArticleDay 172: How Far I’ve Come
Happy Friday everyone, Today marks two years that my grandfather, someone who’ve I’ve written about many times on this blog, passed away. Regardless of the fact that today is significant because it...
View ArticleDay 173: Sharing Cookie Cake With My Sister
Hello everyone, Last night, my twin sister came home after studying abroad in Barcelona for six weeks. On the day that she left, I wrote a blog post about how I had never done recovery without her...
View ArticleDay 176: A New Pair Of Shoes
Hi everyone, As I told you all yesterday, I drove to Pasadena today, a city about an hour away from my house, to see if I would be a match to give a bone marrow transplant to this woman named Nina, who...
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