{"id":554,"date":"2004-09-06T00:26:19","date_gmt":"2004-09-06T08:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/09\/06\/how-to-eat-normally\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:20:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:20:39","slug":"how-to-eat-normally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/09\/06\/how-to-eat-normally\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Eat Normally"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>God must have loved calories&#8230;  he made so many of them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211;from a magnet on my refrigerator<\/p>\n<p>I love to eat &#8212; I really enjoy the experience.  As I get older, my body is slowing down, and the weight has crept up.  It&#8217;s not just age; inactivity is a significant factor too.  In my youth I flirted with bulimia, bingeing, overexercising, using laxatives, starving myself.  This, fortunately, was a short-lived experience that did not hurtle me into a dangerous disorder.  <\/p>\n<p>I look at photos of myself 10 and 20 years ago and think, &#8220;If only I could have <em>seen<\/em> then that I really was a normal weight&#8230;&#8221;  Recently, I was referred by <a href=\"http:\/\/siona.blogspot.com\">Siona<\/a> to explore a site called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.normaleating.com\/\">Normal Eating<\/a>.  I highly recommend it as a sane approach to understanding food, emotions, and one&#8217;s body.  One can hope to enjoy many of those calories God made and stop obsessing over each one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God must have loved calories&#8230; he made so many of them. &#8211;from a magnet on my refrigerator I love to eat &#8212; I really enjoy the experience. As I get older, my body is slowing down, and the weight has crept up. It&#8217;s not just age; inactivity is a significant factor too. In my youth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-science","category-social-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12048,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions\/12048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}