Congrats on another trip around the sun! Guys, we did it. What’s next? It’s New Year’s resolution time, but I think we can do a hell of a lot better than that. How about a New Year’s revolution? A revolution is an overthrow of an old system in favor of a new one, and that’s exactly…
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…
Give yourself the gift of body acceptance
IT’S FREE, Y’ALL. Okay, I know you’re probably all gifted out by now. But I’ve gotta give a shoutout to the very best gift in the whole wide world: body acceptance. It’s free, I reach for it every single day, and I only wish I could gift it to other people, too. You may have heard of…
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…
A big meal is not a binge
This holiday season, I keep hearing the word “binge” tossed around really casually, online and in conversation. Like: “How to recover after your Thanksgiving binge”-type stuff. This is a ludicrous misuse of the word. And pretty reckless, too: are we seriously teaching our kids that big family meals are binges? Imagine a typical holiday meal. You’re…
six months to sanity 