Shannon Costello

According to Ellyn Satter in Chapter 2 (”You and Your Eating”) of her book, Secrets of Feeding a Healthy Family, good motivators for eating well are “optimism, pleasure, and self-trust”, while poor ones are “fear, control, and dreariness.” She feels that the emphasis on dietary guidelines falls too much on rules and on what [...]

I recently read a book in which a character confesses that she is so obsessed with food that she thinks about dinner while she is eating lunch.  
I do that kind of thing all the time.  Doesn’t everybody?  

I think I’ve gained a pound since school started. It is a big adjustment moving from weeks of meandering unstructured time to being energetically on the move most of the day. I have gradually run less and less and no doubt eaten more. I feel too tired to want to consider [...]

Obesity is a private issue and we do not need Big Brother wagging his finger at us every time somebody wants to eat a doughnut.  If someone wants to be a little heavier because they enjoy eating food that tastes good, that’s a person’s personal right.      
—-Justin Wilson, The Center for Consumer Freedom

“It’s mine but you can have some-with you I’d like to share it!
‘Cause if I share it with you-you’ll have some too!”
After a week of listening to high-quality kids’ music and various dining out experiences (one of which I promised not to blog about- does this count, Tara?), I offer the following dessert [...]

Today wasn’t pretty.
I had some sort of orange creme drink at Starbucks (300 calories) and a milkshake at Johnny Rocket’s (1000 calories- compare to 400 in a Frosty… this site provides details) Ouch.
I went to an 11 AM movie today, which interfered with lunch. Meal-time changes problematic in that they often [...]

I generally forget to consider the detrimental affects of empty calories on one’s health, but the reading I have done about them raises painful questions. I will say that here I am primarily concerned with junk food.
During the course of one week at school I ate, among other things,
one package of peanut-butter m&ms- [...]

Unfortuntately I cannot afford to relax my vigilence in this area as much as I have, particularly since the only way I lose any weight is by training for a marathon. I am characterized by very spotty self-control (subject to be covered in a future post).
As always, Kiki’s questions inspire my posts.
I watched [...]