This was the first post:
"It's taken a hell of a long time, but I recently realised that no commercial diet was going to counteract more than twenty years of weirdness around food and self-image.
As a little kid,I was skinny and ill all the time, but from around the age of eight, I started getting fatter, and I guess i started comfort/emotional eating around the same time. That increased a few years later and has carried on ever since. I lost a lot of weight when I was about 16, but it never actually improved my body image (and that's a post in itself).
This blog is going to be part of my goal of getting my head around my relationship with food, and making peace with my body.
There will be healthy eating stuff, but there will also be fat acceptance stuff. There will be exercise stuff, there will be fashion stuff and there will be mental health stuff. There may even be recipes for cake."
A little while after I posted this, I started thinking about my tendency to compartmentalise my thinking, which I don't think is a good thing (that in itself could be a loooooong post... maybe one day), and how really, I could post everything in one place... I don't need to separate things out.
So, in short, I may start getting introspective here, because basically, that is part of who I am just as much as reading, crafting, writing, my love of art, and all the other things that make me me.
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Post script...
I had called this blog Benevolent Brownies, and I'm going to use that label here for this sort of post. Why? Here's the explanation from the other blog...
"Me and the lovely Nicola (who I share an intermittent gardening blog with at
Hyacinthoides Non-scripta) were talking about the tendency a lot of people have to categorise food as either 'good' or 'bad'... we both try to avoid doing it ourselves, and both get irritated by it. the conversation went something like this:
Me: It's not like food has morals is it?
N: Exactly! Like, oh, that banana regularly gives to Medicin Sans Frontier but those chips got into a fight on friday in the pub!
Me: Ahahahahahahaha! Yeah what about the brownie that always buys the big issue, or the celery that stole from the charity collection!
I could've used 'Cakes that Care', or 'Charitable Chocolate' or 'Protesting Potatoes', or 'Magnanimous Milkshakes'*, I suppose, but 'Benevolent Brownies' made me smile.
*Yes, I love alliteration. What of it?"
