Why did I get an eating disorder? I don’t know, and I probably never will. Why wasn’t I born skinny? Or tall? Or blue-eyed? Who knows. Who cares? The older I get, the more it all seems so…foolish. Anxiety and depression are real, but beauty standards aren’t. No one can make me feel bad about my…
Category: intuitive eating
Food insanity turns good advice into bad advice
Water, tea, broccoli…I’ve used them all to advance my eating disorder. Have you? There’s a helluva lot of health advice out there, and some of it is even pretty good. Drinking lots of water, for instance — I bet a lot of people are chronically under-hydrated. But when you restrict your food intake and activate that part of…
If I hear the word skinny one more time, I will hurl myself out this window
As a descriptor for food, it’s meaningless and manipulative. As a diet goal, it’s straight-up dangerous. The first time I remember encountering a food product called “skinny” was at Starbucks, probably a decade ago (yikes). I found out that you could order any drink “skinny” and you’d get fat-free milk, sugar-free syrup, the whole nine yards. I…
This. This. This.
The American Academy of Pediatrics released new guidelines on preventing eating disorders in kids, and they don’t suck! These sorts of things usually involve a lot of food rules and calorie-counting recommendations that make me REAL mad, but I was pleasantly surprised to see a lot of really great stuff in here! It’s also depressing as…
Turns out I’m still a food-control freak
I visited some friends for a weekend and when I got hungry, things got weird. So here’s what went down. My husband and I went to stay with some of his friends for a weekend. They are such lovely people and we had a great time…but. A few things. They apparently have smaller appetites than…
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled…
…was convincing the world that diets = control. Bull. Shit. I can sum up *actual* control in one sentence: “I can eat whatever I want whenever I want it.” That’s it. 10 words, infinite possibilities. On the contrary, the life of a dieter is based on a million arbitrary parameters and variables and endless opportunities for disappointment and…
six months to sanity 