What am I going to do with it, deadlift myself at the gym? Prescribe myself some properly dosed medication? Check myself as luggage at the airport? Of course not, that’s ridiculous. And so is weighing myself. There is absolutely no reason why I need to check in with a scale and know what I weigh….
You don’t need to learn portion control
You need to learn to listen to your body, which has a portion control feature already built in. They’re called hunger hormones, and they’re truly amazing. When your body needs fuel, a hormone called ghrelin will alert you: time to eat! So you eat. Then, a second hormone called leptin will inform you when you…
What if you had never heard the word ‘diet’?
What if you never learned to compare your body to other people’s bodies? What if you never looked down at your plate and wondered how many things you were doing wrong? What if you didn’t look in the mirror and see something perpetually inadequate? What if you weren’t taught that your worth is determined by your…
Just a friendly reminder that bathroom scales have nothing to do with health
And everything to do with marketing. I’ve rounded up a few old ads for bathroom scales, and they are doozies. From the late 19th century and into the Depression era, scale manufacturers successfully parlayed their machinery into a smaller moneymaker for humans: a novelty item where people could pay a penny to find out their weight at department…
You do not have to be on a diet to earn your place on this planet
You do not have to feel guilty about every diet trend you don’t try, or every food you do or don’t eat. That’s diet culture nonsense, and you don’t have to buy into it anymore. As a young girl obsessed with all the things that were wrong with my body, I internalized every single message…
Just because it doesn’t happen to you doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen
Months ago, when the New York Times published a piece about the former Biggest Loser contestants, I noticed a reader comment that has stuck with me ever since. As a rule, I aggressively avoid comment sections of…pretty much anything. But there it was, highlighted in the sidebar, in all its judge-y, preach-y glory: “Sorry. But cravings are…
six months to sanity 