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…
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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…
5 mantras to make it through the holidays
The holidays are a fraught time of year for anyone with food issues. Are you worrying about facing your fear foods? Wondering how to stay “on track”? Afraid that if you start eating you won’t be able to stop? It doesn’t have to be this way. There is a cure for binge eating, and it…
You can survive Halloween candy
So it’s the day after Halloween, and you’re surrounded with candy. Now what? First things first: Candy isn’t bad. And you aren’t a bad person for wanting to enjoy candy! Applying moral values of goodness and badness to food is a sign of disordered eating and an old standby from the diet-guilt playbook. Now that that’s out of the…
six months to sanity 