I'm ready for the rash of media stories about New Year's resolutions with my own list of 5 resolutions that are truly worth making. Read all about it over on my Psychology Today blog.
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Showing posts with label new year's resolution. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
5 New Year's resolutions worth making
I'm ready for the rash of media stories about New Year's resolutions with my own list of 5 resolutions that are truly worth making. Read all about it over on my Psychology Today blog.
Sunday, December 30, 2007
Resolve
Fillyjonk over at Shapely Prose has a great post on New Year's resolutions. Check it out.
This year, I resolve to:
Make progress toward learning to love my body the way it is, not the way I wish it were.
Finish my second anthology.
Sell the guitar I bought last year, and which I've played twice. Take voice lessons instead.
Do something surprising every day. OK, every week.
How about you?
This year, I resolve to:
Make progress toward learning to love my body the way it is, not the way I wish it were.
Finish my second anthology.
Sell the guitar I bought last year, and which I've played twice. Take voice lessons instead.
Do something surprising every day. OK, every week.
How about you?
Monday, January 01, 2007
And yet another Leaden Fork award goes to . . .
Reader's Digest, for its well-meaning but shamefully one-sided advice on how to avoid compulsive overeating. In fact, this could be a primer for how to induce an eating disorder.
Blog reader Deborah Lee brought this to my attention, and points out a couple of items on this top 10 list that really bugged her:
"3. Never, ever buy a snack at gas stations, drugstores, or discount chains.
4. Never, ever stop at a food store just to buy a snack."
Writes Lee, "While I understand the sentiment in these statements, and it may be sound advice in principle, this sort of black-and-white, all-or-nothing thinking is what eating disorders thrive on, and is completely unnecessary."
I'm with you on this, Deborah. Of course Reader's Digest is just one of many media outlets that get this way wrong. Especially in this season, when the default assumption is that we're all trying to lose weight and need "tips" like these. Open just about any women's magazine right now and you'll see headlines like "How to Stick to Your Diet,""Want to lose weight? Be sure not to skip breakfast," and a host of other ridiculous headlines.
I'm looking forward to a year that started without a lot of advice on how to lose weight--and focused instead on creating a healthy and joyful relationship with food, exercise, love, work, and all the other pleasures of being a human being.
How about it?
Blog reader Deborah Lee brought this to my attention, and points out a couple of items on this top 10 list that really bugged her:
"3. Never, ever buy a snack at gas stations, drugstores, or discount chains.
4. Never, ever stop at a food store just to buy a snack."
Writes Lee, "While I understand the sentiment in these statements, and it may be sound advice in principle, this sort of black-and-white, all-or-nothing thinking is what eating disorders thrive on, and is completely unnecessary."
I'm with you on this, Deborah. Of course Reader's Digest is just one of many media outlets that get this way wrong. Especially in this season, when the default assumption is that we're all trying to lose weight and need "tips" like these. Open just about any women's magazine right now and you'll see headlines like "How to Stick to Your Diet,""Want to lose weight? Be sure not to skip breakfast," and a host of other ridiculous headlines.
I'm looking forward to a year that started without a lot of advice on how to lose weight--and focused instead on creating a healthy and joyful relationship with food, exercise, love, work, and all the other pleasures of being a human being.
How about it?
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