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This summer I'm eating generous amounts of a wide variety of delicious vegetables (including lots of fresh ginger root) and fresh salmon. I've been cooking up a rich broth from salmon scraps and creating delicious soups full of vegetables and salmon. I've been introduced to coconut flour and coconut oil recently and am enjoying them, too. For me, food is one of life's pleasures. It didn't used to be that way. Learning to live in peace with food and with life has been an ongoing process for me.
I took this photo with a self-timer when I was 34 years old and had been actively bulimic since I was 17 years old. Next to me is one of my paintings, "Woman Trying to Remember What She is Trying to Forget."
This is a photo taken at the Mt. Baker Ski Area when I was almost 36 years old. My lowest adult weight was 10 pounds below this. At the time, this photo was taken, I was still hoping to lose 10 more pounds. People were beginning to comment on my weight loss in a concerned way.
There are no photos of me at my lowest weight. That was in the spring of 1970. I was 20 years old. At my lowest weight, my goal was still to lose 10 more pounds.
Last fall, I discovered a world-wide community of bloggers who have had many of the experiences I had and survived to tell their stories. I am deeply grateful for these blogs.
If any of my readers have friends or family suffering from eating disorders, my hope is that they, too, find healing in this supportive community or in whatever way works for them.
Thank you, in particular, to the writers of these blogs that I have been reading since last fall:
and this new one:
