Your body is like a car. (I know I’ve used this analogy before but I truly want to expand on it.) When your car runs out of petrol, you go to the petrol station and fill it up. You don’t ignore the fact that the tank is empty and keep on driving. You fill the…
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Apologies to ANYONE I’ve ever GHOSTED on Tinder – Red Velvet Oatmeal
Dating is SCARY. One of my favourite books which involves a romance is ….Jane Eyre. So well balanced. Rochester locks his mentally ill wife in the attic. He tries to marry Jane, lying to her the whole time. She leaves. Eventually she comes back to him and they marry, after he is blind and severely…
BINGE watch, BINGE eat, BINGE drink, REPEAT – Super Sexy Salted Caramel Sauce.
I had a food binge. A mindless food binge. I wasn’t even tasting the food. I just wanted all of the chocolate and sugar in my mouth. Nothing would fill the deep hunger within me. The empty hole that would never be full. Barely chewing. Just cramming it in my mouth and swallowing it down….
Why you should NEVER wait for your REAL LIFE to BEGIN – Mindful Chocolate Orange Porridge
Yesterday when swinging on the swings in a children’s playground, (YES YOU READ RIGHT ) a song came into my head… ‘And you say, just be here now Forget about the past, your mask is wearing thin Just let me throw one more dice I know that I can win I’m waiting for my real…
My No Counting Calories Experiment – PBJ Oats
Science Experiment Day 7: Objective: To stop counting calories, eat when I’m hungry and need energy. To live life to it’s fullest, eat food to it’s fullest and love to my fullest. Also burgers. And salted caramel. Is that an objective? I don’t care. IT IS NOW! The problem with being ‘recovered’ is that your…
Why it’s OKAY to HAVE NO IDEA what you are DOING – Raspberry and Lime Cacao Zoats.
I have ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA what I’m doing. I have NO IDEA what I’m doing with my life. And when it comes to a lot of things I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I’M DOING. With dating. With work. With friends. With writing. With this blog. And do you know what? That is completely OKAY. I…
How to make FRIENDS as an ADULT – Cherry Bakewell Oats
Making friends can be SCARY. In childhood days, it was SO MUCH easier. When we happily toddled over to other children, No introductions needed, And started to squelch and play in the mud. Then for whatever MULTITUDE of reasons, fear and doubt enters our lives. And making friends as an adult can be TERRIFYING. After…
No Food is EVIL – Not So Secret Salted Caramel
What would you FEED your ‘child self’? If you were to walk around daily with the little, vulnerable child version of you… What WORDS would you feed yourself? What IMAGES would you feed yourself? What FOOD would you feed yourself? Would you tell the child version of you that they were FAT and didn’t deserve…
Why I hated WOMEN – International Women’s Day – Decadently Delicious Chocolate Oats
I hated women. (What a stupid thing to say on international women’s day) But I did. I didn’t trust them. I didn’t want to be friends with them. Apart from a few friends who were girls most of my friends were MEN. My bullies were mostly girls. Who used me as their personal plaything. Their…
Let them eat CAKE – Coffee and Walnut Cake Oatmeal
Here is a funny story about cake. And as a lot of funny stories begin, I’m going to start it with the sentence…. ‘When I was severely anorexic….’ (Hilarious right? No but seriously stay with me) I was about to collapse and be taken into hospital for the second time but before that it was…
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