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What I Learned at the AED Meeting I’ve exceeded my 1 week limit between posts, but I’ve got a really good excuse—I’ve spent the past 4 days at the Academy of Eating Disorders (AED) Annual Conference. So I thought I’d share some personal and hopefully meaningful observations about eating, recovery, and miscellaneous thoughts: Day one, 4 hours of workshop, and what did they serve at the refreshment break? Coffee, tea and water. Period. And I wanted calories. Food. I was hungry . Half a day learning about a treatment for anorexia and I couldn’t find anything to eat! But it only got better from there—really. One of several courses eaten at Barley Swine I spent a large percentage of my 24 hours each day doing 2 things—learning about eating disorders and planning and arranging to eat—where to go, whom to go with, and what to order, to name a few. And I must say, Austin Texas has some fabulous food! My top picks?  Barley Swine and La Condesa—simply divine! Another evening we were 8—two ...

Here's what she had to eat. Take a look. Then write down your assessment and tell me what you think. You know, as if you were the nutritionist working on helping her improve her diet and her relationship with food. 8:30-9:00 Bread and jam, 2 slices Freshly juiced red grape and berry juice, ~8 oz. Coffee with whole milk ------------------------------------------------ Vanilla yogurt with fresh peaches ------------------------------------------------ Semolina cake with plum topping ------------------------------------------------ 1 fried egg Bread and jam 12:30 PM Medium gelato, ~2:00 PM Wine samples and bread sticks 3:30 PM ½ a thick cheese and tomato sandwich, on white Italian bread ½ a thick pesto and roasted veggie sandwich, same bread ---------------------------------------------------- Wine tasting, approximately 6 oz, and a few bread sticks 7:45 PM Cheese samples, approximately 1-2 oz. 8:00 PM Bread, 2 slices Large vegetable salad (enough for 2 or 3 people) with olive oil and...

Piedmont: Great Wine, Great Challenges I’m a snob. I admit it. When it comes to food, it’s got to taste good. Because I intend to really taste it. To enjoy it. To savor it. Every bite of it. But Thursday, after many long, hot hours biking the grueling hills of the Piedmont region of Italy, we were hungry. Really hungry. The hills took us much longer than expected; we had no idea what it really means to be in shape for riding hills!  And the snacks we carried? We downed those within the first couple of hours. So we rolled into a tiny town, known for its hazelnut production. Now give me a dessert with hazelnuts and chocolate and I would’ve been just fine. But that didn’t happen—no bakeries in sight. But it didn’t take us long to identify the only eating establishment around. Think retro, stale, cigarette-smoke-filled air luncheonette before it turned quaint and chic. In our broken Italian we ordered the only Panini that sounded acceptable. Oh, and a salad.  What comes to your m...

I just returned from two weeks abroad, 24-7 vacationing with my husband of 25 years (and yes, we still remain happily married). One week hiking in the Swiss alps, one week eating and drinking my way through Italy’s Piedmont and Tuscany regions have left me with so many thoughts to share. So enjoy the photos and commentary in the next several posts, and please share your thoughts and comments with me! The lovely town center of Bagno Vignoni we pushed our bikes to. I get it now. This week I was struck by how much I utilize, maybe even rely on nutrition information to make my eating decisions. Sure, I eat intuitively, and I stand by absolutely everything I’ve told you throughout Drop It And Eat’s many posts. But I had an interesting revelation this week while in Tuscany. Until then, I hadn’t fully realized just how much nutrition info is a part of me, my food choices, my portioning. It came to light in a big way this Wednesday in Italy. A lovely lunch, except for the 1/2 cup of oil! Of co...