Comments on: I Won’t Pretend It Wasn’t A Problem http://www.anitasblog.com/i-wont-pretend-it-wasnt-a-problem/ savoring life in small bits Thu, 14 Jul 2011 05:57:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Kay Marziale http://www.anitasblog.com/i-wont-pretend-it-wasnt-a-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-177 Kay Marziale Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:11:59 +0000 http://www.anitasblog.com/?p=444#comment-177 I love your new blog, Anita. Just journeying in to some of your older posts that I missed and discovered a thread for "compulsive overeating". I attended OA back in the late 80's and was "clean" for white sugar for over a year, then a holiday arrived and that's "all she wrote". I looked at swooping in on fragments of food like, say, a dropped on the counter grapes as a duck goes for that bread crust and snatches it up. For that year the only control I had was because God helped me be faithful to a commitment to abstinence. Now it's November 2009 and my eating has been pretty much empty calories for a long long time. My blood sugar is up and I'm trying desperately to get some control back. Finding this portion on your wonderful new blog has been a real blessing. I so couldn't bake all day and not "look like a duck". I'd swoop in on the fresh sweet smelling cookies and they would never make it to the neighbor for whom I baked them. Thank you for being so honest in your weight loss journey. It's a real inspirations. I have subscribed to your RSS feeds and look forward to checking in daily to see what pearls of wisdom I can find. I just have to keep "picking them up and putting them down" I guess and keep reminding myself of those first three steps, "I can't, He can, I think I will let Him!" God's blessings on your new blog adventure. And thanks. Katie (aka Hisown_01) I love your new blog, Anita. Just journeying in to some of your older posts that I missed and discovered a thread for “compulsive overeating”. I attended OA back in the late 80′s and was “clean” for white sugar for over a year, then a holiday arrived and that’s “all she wrote”. I looked at swooping in on fragments of food like, say, a dropped on the counter grapes as a duck goes for that bread crust and snatches it up. For that year the only control I had was because God helped me be faithful to a commitment to abstinence. Now it’s November 2009 and my eating has been pretty much empty calories for a long long time. My blood sugar is up and I’m trying desperately to get some control back. Finding this portion on your wonderful new blog has been a real blessing. I so couldn’t bake all day and not “look like a duck”. I’d swoop in on the fresh sweet smelling cookies and they would never make it to the neighbor for whom I baked them. Thank you for being so honest in your weight loss journey. It’s a real inspirations. I have subscribed to your RSS feeds and look forward to checking in daily to see what pearls of wisdom I can find. I just have to keep “picking them up and putting them down” I guess and keep reminding myself of those first three steps, “I can’t, He can, I think I will let Him!” God’s blessings on your new blog adventure. And thanks.

Katie (aka Hisown_01)

]]> By: cookiemonster http://www.anitasblog.com/i-wont-pretend-it-wasnt-a-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-143 cookiemonster Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:58:34 +0000 http://www.anitasblog.com/?p=444#comment-143 i'm not saying that i can relate...i'm just saying that i bought a whole package of cookie dough and none of the dough made it to the oven...whoops... seriously, though...i find that it's helpful to just not keep things in the house that are readily consumable (see above)...if I can eat it without cooking it, I will...and like you said, keep drinking water...i think it creates sort of a false sense of "fullness" i’m not saying that i can relate…i’m just saying that i bought a whole package of cookie dough and none of the dough made it to the oven…whoops…

seriously, though…i find that it’s helpful to just not keep things in the house that are readily consumable (see above)…if I can eat it without cooking it, I will…and like you said, keep drinking water…i think it creates sort of a false sense of “fullness”

]]> By: admin http://www.anitasblog.com/i-wont-pretend-it-wasnt-a-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-142 admin Mon, 14 Sep 2009 02:33:55 +0000 http://www.anitasblog.com/?p=444#comment-142 John---> Thank you for the Greek translation. I was always confused and somehow dissatisfied with the more orthodox translative work. Now that I know Jesus was talking about cookies it's all become so clear to me and has taken my faith to a whole different level. No, but seriously.... John—> Thank you for the Greek translation. I was always confused and somehow dissatisfied with the more orthodox translative work. Now that I know Jesus was talking about cookies it’s all become so clear to me and has taken my faith to a whole different level. No, but seriously….

]]> By: admin http://www.anitasblog.com/i-wont-pretend-it-wasnt-a-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-145 admin Mon, 14 Sep 2009 02:28:17 +0000 http://www.anitasblog.com/?p=444#comment-145 Susanna---> I suspect you noticed my grin from ear to ear this morning leaving the communion table. Yes, I was rejoicing in the grace at the table but the smile was ALL about that bread! Sigh. It sounds like we're definitely on the same page regarding baking....and as to gingersnaps, I have the same effect when making all those gingerbread houses....one bite of dough and I'm done. Susanna—> I suspect you noticed my grin from ear to ear this morning leaving the communion table. Yes, I was rejoicing in the grace at the table but the smile was ALL about that bread! Sigh. It sounds like we’re definitely on the same page regarding baking….and as to gingersnaps, I have the same effect when making all those gingerbread houses….one bite of dough and I’m done.

]]> By: John Shore http://www.anitasblog.com/i-wont-pretend-it-wasnt-a-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-144 John Shore Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:15:24 +0000 http://www.anitasblog.com/?p=444#comment-144 As one of the blessed recipients of your cookies, Anita, all I can say is: "Suck it up and keep making and sending me more cookies." No, but seriously: As I sit here before my plate of cookie crumbs I can't help but reflect upon the truth that I don't care if you get fat again, if that's the price you have to pay for making and sending me more cookies. Remember when Christ on the cross said, "It is finished"? A lot of people don't realize it, but the actual Greek for the word "it" in this case is "THEY." What he was saying was "They ARE finished." He was referring to some cookies he left baking at home. In fact, most modern Biblical scholars agree that one of the OTHER reasons Christ came back after he died was to finish mailing out his cookies to his friends. I think there's a lesson there for all of us: Never, ever doubt that it's right to bake and mail cookies to John Shore. Ever. Now go, and bake some more. As one of the blessed recipients of your cookies, Anita, all I can say is: “Suck it up and keep making and sending me more cookies.”

No, but seriously: As I sit here before my plate of cookie crumbs I can’t help but reflect upon the truth that I don’t care if you get fat again, if that’s the price you have to pay for making and sending me more cookies. Remember when Christ on the cross said, “It is finished”? A lot of people don’t realize it, but the actual Greek for the word “it” in this case is “THEY.” What he was saying was “They ARE finished.” He was referring to some cookies he left baking at home. In fact, most modern Biblical scholars agree that one of the OTHER reasons Christ came back after he died was to finish mailing out his cookies to his friends.

I think there’s a lesson there for all of us: Never, ever doubt that it’s right to bake and mail cookies to John Shore. Ever.

Now go, and bake some more.

]]> By: Susanna El Mogazi http://www.anitasblog.com/i-wont-pretend-it-wasnt-a-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-140 Susanna El Mogazi Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:23:07 +0000 http://www.anitasblog.com/?p=444#comment-140 Oh Anita, I really relate to this specific conundrum (my new word)! As someone who has a certificate in baking and pastry and worked for 6 years selling chocolate and pastry ingredients to hundreds of bakeries, I can personally tell you - IT'S REALLY HARD to have your cake and eat it too (ha ha). Over those 8 years that I was in pastry school and working as a rep, I gained about 20 lbs. I heart baking more than ANYTHING. Yet, I really have to reserve it for special occasions....because I have no self control around things like cookies and their evil doughs. I bake challah once a month for Communion. YOU KNOW what I'm talking about too. It makes TWO LOAVES. I have vowed to bring one to church and give the other as a gift to a friend. If I have it in the house I will smother it in Nutella and eat every last crumb. I only bake when I'm asked to or if I need a special gift for someone who would appreciate it. I switched to making fudge at Christmas because I simply don't care for it (I know, I'm a freak). I often bake things for people that I don't care for - such as cheesecake or oatmeal cookies. I NEVER, EVER do marathon baking sessions like you did...it's just an accident waiting to happen. However, when I do bake, I THROW THE BOWL IN THE SINK IMMEDIATELY and squirt soap all over it so I won't lick the bowl. I also like to make cookies without noshable ingredients in them because then I won't pick. Also, cookie dough containing molasses tends to taste icky so I make gingersnaps a lot. Why is that gingersnap dough is so foul but the end product delectable? Oh well. I don't know if any of this helps, but there was my two cents. ;) Oh Anita, I really relate to this specific conundrum (my new word)!
As someone who has a certificate in baking and pastry and worked for 6 years selling chocolate and pastry ingredients to hundreds of bakeries, I can personally tell you – IT’S REALLY HARD to have your cake and eat it too (ha ha). Over those 8 years that I was in pastry school and working as a rep, I gained about 20 lbs. I heart baking more than ANYTHING. Yet, I really have to reserve it for special occasions….because I have no self control around things like cookies and their evil doughs. I bake challah once a month for Communion. YOU KNOW what I’m talking about too. It makes TWO LOAVES. I have vowed to bring one to church and give the other as a gift to a friend. If I have it in the house I will smother it in Nutella and eat every last crumb. I only bake when I’m asked to or if I need a special gift for someone who would appreciate it. I switched to making fudge at Christmas because I simply don’t care for it (I know, I’m a freak). I often bake things for people that I don’t care for – such as cheesecake or oatmeal cookies. I NEVER, EVER do marathon baking sessions like you did…it’s just an accident waiting to happen. However, when I do bake, I THROW THE BOWL IN THE SINK IMMEDIATELY and squirt soap all over it so I won’t lick the bowl. I also like to make cookies without noshable ingredients in them because then I won’t pick. Also, cookie dough containing molasses tends to taste icky so I make gingersnaps a lot. Why is that gingersnap dough is so foul but the end product delectable? Oh well.
I don’t know if any of this helps, but there was my two cents. ;)

]]> By: Micah http://www.anitasblog.com/i-wont-pretend-it-wasnt-a-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-141 Micah Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:57:55 +0000 http://www.anitasblog.com/?p=444#comment-141 And where are my cookies??? Ya hang out in the barber shop, you're gonna get a haircut, as they say. And where are my cookies??? Ya hang out in the barber shop, you’re gonna get a haircut, as they say.

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