If I were Alice in Wonderland standing amid the doors of my life, 2011 would be marked, “welcome to adulthood.” A lot of significant transitions occurred this year, primarily my transition from grad student juggling freelance gigs w/ an income supplemented by student loans to a full-time independent contractor learning the ropes of self-sufficiency and [...]

Hey guys! Wow, it feels like forever since I’ve actually sat down to write a blog, though every single day I write at least three posts in my head, all beginning with “hey guys!” and ending with “<3, the Cranky One” (as I am wont to do). You know how Carrie in Sex and the [...]

After three binges in the past week, I decided to sit down with my boyfriend and try to verbalize what it’s like to feel that you have to eat massive amounts of food in one sitting until your stomach feels like it’s going to burst. I wanted to take the time to explain this to [...]

I am not embarrassed to admit that I love reality t.v. But I usually watch it precisely because I can’t relate to it and it provides a fun and mindless escape. However, last night, as I was watching the first part of the Kim Kardashian wedding special (yep! I love watching those crazy big-booty sisters!), [...]

Hey guys! The past month and a half has been a whirlwind. You can tell by my sparse blogging hehe. This upcoming week will be my 7th week with HUMAN. It has been an incredible journey so far – filled with challenges, conquests, sleepless nights, laughs, gallons of coffee, jumping off the cliff of my [...]

Hey guys! This is my 5th(!) update, so we’re now over a month since I started the challenge to lose the weight I gained while studying for my M.A. comprehensive exam. Time is flying like a G6! Let’s see how I fared this past week: Original Starting Weight: 142.6lbs Last Week’s Starting weight: 136lbs Today’s [...]

It’s been seven weeks of the This Ain’t No Freshman 15, This is the Final 10 Challenge and that means it’s WEIGH-IN time!  Before you read my stats below, make sure to check out Jen, Prior Fat Girl’s, blog to see how she’s coming along! Here we go: Starting Weight: 138 lbs. Last Weigh-In July [...]

From Dalhousie University’s website here 4/15/09: “Dalhousie’s Dr. Sherry has published “The Perfectionism Model of Binge Eating” in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, along with co-author Peter Hall of the University of Waterloo. By closely following the daily activities of a large group of undergraduates, the researchers believe that they’re the first to [...]