I don’t have the easiest time staying active. I’ve never been a natural athlete or an adrenaline junkie. I kinda hate sweating. I really hate getting off the couch. So my relationship with movement has always been results-oriented: “Am I losing weight? Am I skinny yet? Have I sufficiently punished myself for my last meal?”…
Category: body positivity
Dream bigger than diets
Let’s dream bigger this year. Here are 10 ways to focus on being more, rather than less, in 2017… Try a new hobby. It’s hard to overstate the value of a creative outlet. If you work a desk job, it might be fun to find a hands-on hobby, like woodworking, knitting, cooking, gardening, or playing an instrument. If you work with…
New year’s resolution: Stop the madness
If you ever doubt for a second that the diet industry is playing us like a fiddle, check out this graph: It’s not a nice healthy heartbeat. It’s a five-year insight into how the diet industry has programmed us to begin each year with self-loathing, self-punishing behavior that has been cleverly marketed as “normal.” This…
Have a perfect, and present, day
If you’re celebrating Christmas today, I wish you a beautiful, delicious day — guilt-free. Join the conversation at the table, not the one in your head. Listen to your body’s hunger and fullness cues, not the diet culture foolishness that other people might choose to disseminate. Tune into your own tastebuds — eat what you…
If you gained a pound or two this holiday season
Then you’ve been weighing yourself. STOP THAT!!! Sit down, let me give you a pep talk. I lived in a constant state of yoyo dieting for more than a decade. Starting around age 13, if I wasn’t actively on a diet, I was planning the next one — and always, always living in fear of…
You don’t get a goal height
And you don’t get a goal weight either. You never got a vote in how tall you grew, right? Of course not, or I’d be tall enough to buy regular jeans. My goal height never materialized, and surprise surprise: neither did my goal weight. Here’s the bad news: you don’t get a vote in how…
six months to sanity 