Chronicles of a Late Bloomer

14″ for Locks of Love.

If you feel like you’ve been treated poorly because of your weight, you’re probably not wrong. When my local morning news reported that two studies on weight discrimination had been recently published, I did a little quick googling.
One of the studies reported a dramatic increase in workplace weight discrimination in the past decade alone [...]

As I’ve bumped health issues back to the forefront of my mind, I have also been trolling around through some of the old websites that I used to haunt. Some of our fellow bloggers have predictably fallen away, leaving only dead links and deleted sites. Others are still going strong, blogging day after day about [...]

The first person to ever mention weight-loss surgery to me was an endocrinologist. She was a lovely Jewish woman from New York and there we sat, staring at each other over my naked body, discussing my diagnosis of PCOS. 25 minutes earlier, instead of perusing the sticky gossip magazines, I had mentally calculated her age [...]

I may have mentioned this before, but in August of 2007, my therapist of 4+ years moved to a different state. She generously gave me several months of warning, and we spent those months dealing with my childish tantrums about her “leaving me.” Even though I’m a therapist, I do recognize that not everyone requires [...]

Seriously. Why no seasons on DVD?

Sure, I’m back from my weary journey to the land of OL — 15 or so pounds back — but it’s a long and winding road, isn’t it?

Just making little changes lately. You know, trying to cut back on white rice, eat fewer cookies, order the fish now and again, that sort of thing.
And I’m down 3 kilos, according to the scale on the 5th floor.
Not that I totally know what 3 kilos means, except that — according to a multiplication of [...]

When I found out my dad was in the ER, I took 6 pieces of chocolate, went into my office, and shut the door.

But hey.