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ONLINE FAT CAMP.
Online fat camp. Ahem. This is kind of last-minute, but the long weekend really threw me off. For a long time, I’ve been doing individual sessions teaching people how to eat normally after giving up dieting (in addition to writing this blog, of course.) Doing individual sessions means that they are pretty expensive, and itlimits the number
WHAT IS NORMAL EATING? Normal eating is giving yourself permission to eat sometimes because you are happy, sad or bored, or just because it feels good. Normal eating is mostly three meals a day, or four or five, or it can be choosing to munch along the way. It is leaving some cookies on the plate because you know you can have some again tomorrow, or it iseating more
NO VACANCY - FAT NUTRITIONIST No Vacancy. Thanks for checking me out! I’m sorry to say that my calendar is completely full and I’m not able to sign up any new clients as of May, 2021. This is the first time I’ve had to do this, so I’m pretty sure it’s due to the pandemic causing havoc with people’s eating. Rest ON NOT BEING A DIETITIAN. On not being a dietitian. Just a note – this is a post directed at systemic issues, and specifically the way my field is structured, and is not at all a complaint about the work I do currently, which I love, or about my readers and clients, whom I also love. It’s also an explanation of sorts for the media, who often mistake me for adietitian.
LESSON THREE
Mechanical Hunger is the easiest to understand, and sometimes to recognize – it’s the feeling of an empty stomach, often accompanied by growling or churning, or a sense of hollowness or tightness in the stomach. (Keeping in mind the physical reality of the stomach – that it hovers higher up than most of us visualize, justbelow where your
COOKING FOR YOURSELF: YOU ARE WORTH THE EFFORT. Cooking for yourself: You are worth the effort. I think this is a lesson that all of us could stand a refresher in, myself included, as we continue down the path toward feeding ourselves like competent adults. Caveat: Feeling that it’s not worth the effort to prepare food for yourself is very different from literally not having theenergy or
IF ONLY POOR PEOPLE UNDERSTOOD NUTRITION! If only poor people understood nutrition! French version of this post here, courtesy Stéphanie Potin-Grevrend. It seems like some people are constantly wringing their hands about how poor people eat (to wit: badly.) And the most popularly proposed solution is to teach them ( “them”) more about nutrition! Or educate them in general.ON WHEAT AND DEATH.
On wheat and death. By Michelle | Published: November 26, 2013. Several months ago, I happened upon this little review about the connection between wheat (and other grains) on inflammation, which was pretty interesting. It reports that there are plausible physiological mechanisms linking wheat to inflammation, that there is some animaland some
THE FAT NUTRITIONISTLEARN TO EATABOUTWHAT IS NORMAL EATINGMEDIAARTICLES & EVIDENCEARCHIVES When I speak with clients, a theme that often comes up is the question of what is true and what is false in nutrition. Yesterday, an article about the demonization of fat made headlines, and along with it, whipped up that familiar confusion about nutrition and people asking a very familiar question: what is actually the truth? It’s a good question, an important question, and one which will ABOUT - FAT NUTRITIONIST I have an accredited degree (BASc) in nutrition from Ryerson University. I work online to help people stop dieting, deal with picky eating, and relearn normal eating. I’m a member of Dietitians of Canada, and the Association for Size Diversity and Health. I’ve completed the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics-approved Treating theDieting
ONLINE FAT CAMP.
Online fat camp. Ahem. This is kind of last-minute, but the long weekend really threw me off. For a long time, I’ve been doing individual sessions teaching people how to eat normally after giving up dieting (in addition to writing this blog, of course.) Doing individual sessions means that they are pretty expensive, and itlimits the number
WHAT IS NORMAL EATING? Normal eating is giving yourself permission to eat sometimes because you are happy, sad or bored, or just because it feels good. Normal eating is mostly three meals a day, or four or five, or it can be choosing to munch along the way. It is leaving some cookies on the plate because you know you can have some again tomorrow, or it iseating more
NO VACANCY - FAT NUTRITIONIST No Vacancy. Thanks for checking me out! I’m sorry to say that my calendar is completely full and I’m not able to sign up any new clients as of May, 2021. This is the first time I’ve had to do this, so I’m pretty sure it’s due to the pandemic causing havoc with people’s eating. Rest ON NOT BEING A DIETITIAN. On not being a dietitian. Just a note – this is a post directed at systemic issues, and specifically the way my field is structured, and is not at all a complaint about the work I do currently, which I love, or about my readers and clients, whom I also love. It’s also an explanation of sorts for the media, who often mistake me for adietitian.
LESSON THREE
Mechanical Hunger is the easiest to understand, and sometimes to recognize – it’s the feeling of an empty stomach, often accompanied by growling or churning, or a sense of hollowness or tightness in the stomach. (Keeping in mind the physical reality of the stomach – that it hovers higher up than most of us visualize, justbelow where your
COOKING FOR YOURSELF: YOU ARE WORTH THE EFFORT. Cooking for yourself: You are worth the effort. I think this is a lesson that all of us could stand a refresher in, myself included, as we continue down the path toward feeding ourselves like competent adults. Caveat: Feeling that it’s not worth the effort to prepare food for yourself is very different from literally not having theenergy or
IF ONLY POOR PEOPLE UNDERSTOOD NUTRITION! If only poor people understood nutrition! French version of this post here, courtesy Stéphanie Potin-Grevrend. It seems like some people are constantly wringing their hands about how poor people eat (to wit: badly.) And the most popularly proposed solution is to teach them ( “them”) more about nutrition! Or educate them in general.ON WHEAT AND DEATH.
On wheat and death. By Michelle | Published: November 26, 2013. Several months ago, I happened upon this little review about the connection between wheat (and other grains) on inflammation, which was pretty interesting. It reports that there are plausible physiological mechanisms linking wheat to inflammation, that there is some animaland some
THE FAT NUTRITIONIST Potato chips and salad. Sauteed kale and pizza. Peanut m&ms and an apple. Boxed macaroni and cheese with pork tenderloin and greens (this is traditional in many places, but where I grew up, boxed mac and cheese was strictly kid food, and strictly eaten MEDIA - THE FAT NUTRITIONIST Media. A few places where people have been nice enough to mention my name, or even let me write some stuff: Eating Toward Immortality – by yours truly, The Atlantic, February 2017. The Unhealthy Truth Behind ‘Wellness’ and ‘Clean Eating’ – Ruby Tandoh, Vice, May 2016. 14 Ways I Learned To Be A Happy Plus-Size Woman – KayeToal
YOUR BODY IS YOUR HOME. No. Rather, your body is the space within which you exist. It’s the material assertion that you have the right to exist in this world, that you have a place in it. It’s the concept of ‘home’ — not a house, a thing to be remodelled at whim, bought and sold — but a cherished, adored, childhood home comprising memories both sad andsweet.
THE FAT NUTRITIONIST (Okay, so not really.) This video shows Brigid Polk, one of the members of Andy Warhol’s Factory — a former society girl whose mother forced her to diet from a young age — describing how she uses speed instead of various reducing salons, yet insists on not being “uptight” about being the fat girl in a bathing suit.. Brigid is a rebel and a troublemaker, no doubt, but also someone who HOW TO EAT, IN A NUTSHELL French version of this post here, courtesy Stéphanie Potin-Grevrend.. I spend a lot of time and energy trying to teach people to eat normally. It’s amazing what a difficult process it can be, and I blame a lot of that on the severely disordered culture we’re allswimming in.
THE FAT NUTRITIONIST At the moment, I’m working on my internship research project, which is a critical analysis of a popular diet program, The Whole30. Over the next week or so, I plan to post snippets of the themes I’m finding as I analyze some text that goes along with the program. THE FAT NUTRITIONIST So I’ve, er, lost a bit of time recently. I put my head down for a minute, looked up again, and it was July. Canada Day, to be precise, and also the first day of the month, which gives my husband the opportunity to sneak up behind me and shout, “PINCH, PUNCH, FIRST-OF-THE-MONTH, NO RETURNS!” BASIC MAMMAL MAINTENANCE, OR HOW TO BE NICE TO YOURSELF. Basic mammal maintenance, or How to be nice to yourself. Continuing on the theme of childhood neglect, my nonscientific gut-check tells me that if people were mean or indifferent or unable to care for you while you were a kid, you might lack the skills to care for yourself as an adult. This can lead to a place of acute suffering.ON WHEAT AND DEATH.
On wheat and death. By Michelle | Published: November 26, 2013. Several months ago, I happened upon this little review about the connection between wheat (and other grains) on inflammation, which was pretty interesting. It reports that there are plausible physiological mechanisms linking wheat to inflammation, that there is some animaland some
ON NOT BEING FED ENOUGH AS A CHILD. On not being fed enough as a child. By Michelle | Published: March 15, 2016. This is one of the painful truths of my job: discovering that sometimes children, especially fat kids, or kids whose caregivers suspect they will one day be fat, don’t get fed enough. Sometimes those kids grow up and become my clients. THE FAT NUTRITIONISTLEARN TO EATABOUTWHAT IS NORMAL EATINGMEDIAARTICLES & EVIDENCEARCHIVES When I speak with clients, a theme that often comes up is the question of what is true and what is false in nutrition. Yesterday, an article about the demonization of fat made headlines, and along with it, whipped up that familiar confusion about nutrition and people asking a very familiar question: what is actually the truth? It’s a good question, an important question, and one which will ABOUT - FAT NUTRITIONIST I have an accredited degree (BASc) in nutrition from Ryerson University. I work online to help people stop dieting, deal with picky eating, and relearn normal eating. I’m a member of Dietitians of Canada, and the Association for Size Diversity and Health. I’ve completed the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics-approved Treating theDieting
WHAT IS NORMAL EATING? Normal eating is giving yourself permission to eat sometimes because you are happy, sad or bored, or just because it feels good. Normal eating is mostly three meals a day, or four or five, or it can be choosing to munch along the way. It is leaving some cookies on the plate because you know you can have some again tomorrow, or it iseating more
ONLINE FAT CAMP.
Online fat camp. Ahem. This is kind of last-minute, but the long weekend really threw me off. For a long time, I’ve been doing individual sessions teaching people how to eat normally after giving up dieting (in addition to writing this blog, of course.) Doing individual sessions means that they are pretty expensive, and itlimits the number
ON NOT BEING A DIETITIAN. On not being a dietitian. Just a note – this is a post directed at systemic issues, and specifically the way my field is structured, and is not at all a complaint about the work I do currently, which I love, or about my readers and clients, whom I also love. It’s also an explanation of sorts for the media, who often mistake me for adietitian.
LESSON THREE
Mechanical Hunger is the easiest to understand, and sometimes to recognize – it’s the feeling of an empty stomach, often accompanied by growling or churning, or a sense of hollowness or tightness in the stomach. (Keeping in mind the physical reality of the stomach – that it hovers higher up than most of us visualize, justbelow where your
THE FAT NUTRITIONIST At the moment, I’m working on my internship research project, which is a critical analysis of a popular diet program, The Whole30. Over the next week or so, I plan to post snippets of the themes I’m finding as I analyze some text that goes along with the program. COOKING FOR YOURSELF: YOU ARE WORTH THE EFFORT. Cooking for yourself: You are worth the effort. I think this is a lesson that all of us could stand a refresher in, myself included, as we continue down the path toward feeding ourselves like competent adults. Caveat: Feeling that it’s not worth the effort to prepare food for yourself is very different from literally not having theenergy or
IF ONLY POOR PEOPLE UNDERSTOOD NUTRITION! If only poor people understood nutrition! French version of this post here, courtesy Stéphanie Potin-Grevrend. It seems like some people are constantly wringing their hands about how poor people eat (to wit: badly.) And the most popularly proposed solution is to teach them ( “them”) more about nutrition! Or educate them in general.ON WHEAT AND DEATH.
On wheat and death. By Michelle | Published: November 26, 2013. Several months ago, I happened upon this little review about the connection between wheat (and other grains) on inflammation, which was pretty interesting. It reports that there are plausible physiological mechanisms linking wheat to inflammation, that there is some animaland some
THE FAT NUTRITIONISTLEARN TO EATABOUTWHAT IS NORMAL EATINGMEDIAARTICLES & EVIDENCEARCHIVES When I speak with clients, a theme that often comes up is the question of what is true and what is false in nutrition. Yesterday, an article about the demonization of fat made headlines, and along with it, whipped up that familiar confusion about nutrition and people asking a very familiar question: what is actually the truth? It’s a good question, an important question, and one which will ABOUT - FAT NUTRITIONIST I have an accredited degree (BASc) in nutrition from Ryerson University. I work online to help people stop dieting, deal with picky eating, and relearn normal eating. I’m a member of Dietitians of Canada, and the Association for Size Diversity and Health. I’ve completed the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics-approved Treating theDieting
WHAT IS NORMAL EATING? Normal eating is giving yourself permission to eat sometimes because you are happy, sad or bored, or just because it feels good. Normal eating is mostly three meals a day, or four or five, or it can be choosing to munch along the way. It is leaving some cookies on the plate because you know you can have some again tomorrow, or it iseating more
ONLINE FAT CAMP.
Online fat camp. Ahem. This is kind of last-minute, but the long weekend really threw me off. For a long time, I’ve been doing individual sessions teaching people how to eat normally after giving up dieting (in addition to writing this blog, of course.) Doing individual sessions means that they are pretty expensive, and itlimits the number
ON NOT BEING A DIETITIAN. On not being a dietitian. Just a note – this is a post directed at systemic issues, and specifically the way my field is structured, and is not at all a complaint about the work I do currently, which I love, or about my readers and clients, whom I also love. It’s also an explanation of sorts for the media, who often mistake me for adietitian.
LESSON THREE
Mechanical Hunger is the easiest to understand, and sometimes to recognize – it’s the feeling of an empty stomach, often accompanied by growling or churning, or a sense of hollowness or tightness in the stomach. (Keeping in mind the physical reality of the stomach – that it hovers higher up than most of us visualize, justbelow where your
THE FAT NUTRITIONIST At the moment, I’m working on my internship research project, which is a critical analysis of a popular diet program, The Whole30. Over the next week or so, I plan to post snippets of the themes I’m finding as I analyze some text that goes along with the program. COOKING FOR YOURSELF: YOU ARE WORTH THE EFFORT. Cooking for yourself: You are worth the effort. I think this is a lesson that all of us could stand a refresher in, myself included, as we continue down the path toward feeding ourselves like competent adults. Caveat: Feeling that it’s not worth the effort to prepare food for yourself is very different from literally not having theenergy or
IF ONLY POOR PEOPLE UNDERSTOOD NUTRITION! If only poor people understood nutrition! French version of this post here, courtesy Stéphanie Potin-Grevrend. It seems like some people are constantly wringing their hands about how poor people eat (to wit: badly.) And the most popularly proposed solution is to teach them ( “them”) more about nutrition! Or educate them in general.ON WHEAT AND DEATH.
On wheat and death. By Michelle | Published: November 26, 2013. Several months ago, I happened upon this little review about the connection between wheat (and other grains) on inflammation, which was pretty interesting. It reports that there are plausible physiological mechanisms linking wheat to inflammation, that there is some animaland some
ABOUT - FAT NUTRITIONIST I have an accredited degree (BASc) in nutrition from Ryerson University. I work online to help people stop dieting, deal with picky eating, and relearn normal eating. I’m a member of Dietitians of Canada, and the Association for Size Diversity and Health. I’ve completed the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics-approved Treating theDieting
MEDIA - THE FAT NUTRITIONIST Media. A few places where people have been nice enough to mention my name, or even let me write some stuff: Eating Toward Immortality – by yours truly, The Atlantic, February 2017. The Unhealthy Truth Behind ‘Wellness’ and ‘Clean Eating’ – Ruby Tandoh, Vice, May 2016. 14 Ways I Learned To Be A Happy Plus-Size Woman – KayeToal
DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS FROM MY KITCHEN 5) If there are potatoes involved, start prepping them since they take the longest to cook. Wash, peel, cut into chunks, etc. 6) Start chopping onions or other vegetables, if needed, keeping a bowl for garbage scraps right on the counter. Or the plastic bag the vegetables came in, if there is one. WHY DIETS DON’T WORK. The usual assumption among non-researchers about why diets fail is that when a dieter regains weight, it must be because they stopped dieting, which is in turn attributed to things like not having enough willpower, personal and moral failure, gluttony and laziness, or being too ignorant to know better.ON WHEAT AND DEATH.
On wheat and death. By Michelle | Published: November 26, 2013. Several months ago, I happened upon this little review about the connection between wheat (and other grains) on inflammation, which was pretty interesting. It reports that there are plausible physiological mechanisms linking wheat to inflammation, that there is some animaland some
THE DESERT ISLAND.
I’m conscious when I go out in public that my very presence is a tiny act of rebellion. It’s a kind of rebellion that I find totally ridiculous – the idea that just existing in front of other people is transgressive isI don’t even know how else to put it.THE THIRD OPTION.
The third option. By Michelle | Published: June 21, 2013. Cross-posted to Shameless. Two days ago, there were rumblings. First, I heard that the American Medical Association’s science council had advised them against declaring “obesity” a disease. My initial feeling was one of mild surprise – hadn’t they declared it a disease already? NUTRITION AGNOSTICISM. Nutrition agnosticism. By Michelle | Published: March 19, 2012. On this blog, I talk a lot about the how of eating, with little attention to the what. There are a few reasons for this. One is my belief that, until you have a solid foundation for how to eat, it’s THE LAST SUPPER SYNDROME The Last Supper Syndrome. Happy Mardi Gras! Also known as Fat Tuesday. Or Shrove Tuesday. Or pancakes-for-supper. It struck me as an odd coincidence that, just last night, I was talking with one of my groups about the thing I call the Last Supper Phenomenon. Here’s how it happens: Something happens that makes you feel bad about your weight. YOU DON’T HAVE TO FIGURE OUT THE UNIVERSAL TRUTH OF NUTRITION. When I speak with clients, a theme that often comes up is the question of what is true and what is false in nutrition. Yesterday, an article about the demonization of fat made headlines, and along with it, whipped up that familiar confusion about nutrition and people asking a very familiar question: what is actually the truth? It’s a good question, an important question, and one which will THE FAT NUTRITIONISTLEARN TO EATABOUTWHAT IS NORMAL EATINGMEDIAARTICLES & EVIDENCEARCHIVES When I speak with clients, a theme that often comes up is the question of what is true and what is false in nutrition. Yesterday, an article about the demonization of fat made headlines, and along with it, whipped up that familiar confusion about nutrition and people asking a very familiar question: what is actually the truth? It’s a good question, an important question, and one which will ABOUT - FAT NUTRITIONIST I have an accredited degree (BASc) in nutrition from Ryerson University. I work online to help people stop dieting, deal with picky eating, and relearn normal eating. I’m a member of Dietitians of Canada, and the Association for Size Diversity and Health. I’ve completed the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics-approved Treating theDieting
ONLINE FAT CAMP.
Online fat camp. Ahem. This is kind of last-minute, but the long weekend really threw me off. For a long time, I’ve been doing individual sessions teaching people how to eat normally after giving up dieting (in addition to writing this blog, of course.) Doing individual sessions means that they are pretty expensive, and itlimits the number
WHAT IS NORMAL EATING? Normal eating is giving yourself permission to eat sometimes because you are happy, sad or bored, or just because it feels good. Normal eating is mostly three meals a day, or four or five, or it can be choosing to munch along the way. It is leaving some cookies on the plate because you know you can have some again tomorrow, or it iseating more
LESSON THREE
Mechanical Hunger is the easiest to understand, and sometimes to recognize – it’s the feeling of an empty stomach, often accompanied by growling or churning, or a sense of hollowness or tightness in the stomach. (Keeping in mind the physical reality of the stomach – that it hovers higher up than most of us visualize, justbelow where your
ON NOT BEING A DIETITIAN. On not being a dietitian. Just a note – this is a post directed at systemic issues, and specifically the way my field is structured, and is not at all a complaint about the work I do currently, which I love, or about my readers and clients, whom I also love. It’s also an explanation of sorts for the media, who often mistake me for adietitian.
BASIC MAMMAL MAINTENANCE, OR HOW TO BE NICE TO YOURSELF. Basic mammal maintenance, or How to be nice to yourself. Continuing on the theme of childhood neglect, my nonscientific gut-check tells me that if people were mean or indifferent or unable to care for you while you were a kid, you might lack the skills to care for yourself as an adult. This can lead to a place of acute suffering. THE FAT NUTRITIONIST At the moment, I’m working on my internship research project, which is a critical analysis of a popular diet program, The Whole30. Over the next week or so, I plan to post snippets of the themes I’m finding as I analyze some text that goes along with the program. IF ONLY POOR PEOPLE UNDERSTOOD NUTRITION! If only poor people understood nutrition! French version of this post here, courtesy Stéphanie Potin-Grevrend. It seems like some people are constantly wringing their hands about how poor people eat (to wit: badly.) And the most popularly proposed solution is to teach them ( “them”) more about nutrition! Or educate them in general.ECSATTER INVENTORY
ecSatter Inventory . Name: Date: Age: Below are 16 statements about your eating. Think about each one, then select the answer that shows THE FAT NUTRITIONISTLEARN TO EATABOUTWHAT IS NORMAL EATINGMEDIAARTICLES & EVIDENCEARCHIVES When I speak with clients, a theme that often comes up is the question of what is true and what is false in nutrition. Yesterday, an article about the demonization of fat made headlines, and along with it, whipped up that familiar confusion about nutrition and people asking a very familiar question: what is actually the truth? It’s a good question, an important question, and one which will ABOUT - FAT NUTRITIONIST I have an accredited degree (BASc) in nutrition from Ryerson University. I work online to help people stop dieting, deal with picky eating, and relearn normal eating. I’m a member of Dietitians of Canada, and the Association for Size Diversity and Health. I’ve completed the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics-approved Treating theDieting
ONLINE FAT CAMP.
Online fat camp. Ahem. This is kind of last-minute, but the long weekend really threw me off. For a long time, I’ve been doing individual sessions teaching people how to eat normally after giving up dieting (in addition to writing this blog, of course.) Doing individual sessions means that they are pretty expensive, and itlimits the number
WHAT IS NORMAL EATING? Normal eating is giving yourself permission to eat sometimes because you are happy, sad or bored, or just because it feels good. Normal eating is mostly three meals a day, or four or five, or it can be choosing to munch along the way. It is leaving some cookies on the plate because you know you can have some again tomorrow, or it iseating more
LESSON THREE
Mechanical Hunger is the easiest to understand, and sometimes to recognize – it’s the feeling of an empty stomach, often accompanied by growling or churning, or a sense of hollowness or tightness in the stomach. (Keeping in mind the physical reality of the stomach – that it hovers higher up than most of us visualize, justbelow where your
ON NOT BEING A DIETITIAN. On not being a dietitian. Just a note – this is a post directed at systemic issues, and specifically the way my field is structured, and is not at all a complaint about the work I do currently, which I love, or about my readers and clients, whom I also love. It’s also an explanation of sorts for the media, who often mistake me for adietitian.
BASIC MAMMAL MAINTENANCE, OR HOW TO BE NICE TO YOURSELF. Basic mammal maintenance, or How to be nice to yourself. Continuing on the theme of childhood neglect, my nonscientific gut-check tells me that if people were mean or indifferent or unable to care for you while you were a kid, you might lack the skills to care for yourself as an adult. This can lead to a place of acute suffering. THE FAT NUTRITIONIST At the moment, I’m working on my internship research project, which is a critical analysis of a popular diet program, The Whole30. Over the next week or so, I plan to post snippets of the themes I’m finding as I analyze some text that goes along with the program. IF ONLY POOR PEOPLE UNDERSTOOD NUTRITION! If only poor people understood nutrition! French version of this post here, courtesy Stéphanie Potin-Grevrend. It seems like some people are constantly wringing their hands about how poor people eat (to wit: badly.) And the most popularly proposed solution is to teach them ( “them”) more about nutrition! Or educate them in general.ECSATTER INVENTORY
ecSatter Inventory . Name: Date: Age: Below are 16 statements about your eating. Think about each one, then select the answer that shows THE FAT NUTRITIONIST Potato chips and salad. Sauteed kale and pizza. Peanut m&ms and an apple. Boxed macaroni and cheese with pork tenderloin and greens (this is traditional in many places, but where I grew up, boxed mac and cheese was strictly kid food, and strictly eaten YOUR BODY IS YOUR HOME. No. Rather, your body is the space within which you exist. It’s the material assertion that you have the right to exist in this world, that you have a place in it. It’s the concept of ‘home’ — not a house, a thing to be remodelled at whim, bought and sold — but a cherished, adored, childhood home comprising memories both sad andsweet.
THE FAT NUTRITIONIST At the moment, I’m working on my internship research project, which is a critical analysis of a popular diet program, The Whole30. Over the next week or so, I plan to post snippets of the themes I’m finding as I analyze some text that goes along with the program. THE FAT NUTRITIONIST 9) Focus on your own food and enjoy it. Eyes on your own plate, if you will. This can be really hard to do on a holiday, ironically, because of all the distraction and hubbub of the holiday itself. So, before diving into the plate of delectation set before you, take a good, deepbreath.
DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS FROM MY KITCHEN 5) If there are potatoes involved, start prepping them since they take the longest to cook. Wash, peel, cut into chunks, etc. 6) Start chopping onions or other vegetables, if needed, keeping a bowl for garbage scraps right on the counter. Or the plastic bag the vegetables came in, if there is one. THE FAT NUTRITIONIST (Okay, so not really.) This video shows Brigid Polk, one of the members of Andy Warhol’s Factory — a former society girl whose mother forced her to diet from a young age — describing how she uses speed instead of various reducing salons, yet insists on not being “uptight” about being the fat girl in a bathing suit.. Brigid is a rebel and a troublemaker, no doubt, but also someone who LESSON TWO – MEALS AS LOVE. Lesson two – Meals as love. If you have any sort of history of food restriction, whether from dieting, or medical stuff, or an eating disorder, or food scarcity of any kind; from financial reasons, or barriers to getting food, or the inability to prepare the food COOKING FOR YOURSELF: YOU ARE WORTH THE EFFORT. Cooking for yourself: You are worth the effort. I think this is a lesson that all of us could stand a refresher in, myself included, as we continue down the path toward feeding ourselves like competent adults. Caveat: Feeling that it’s not worth the effort to prepare food for yourself is very different from literally not having theenergy or
THE DESERT ISLAND.
I’m conscious when I go out in public that my very presence is a tiny act of rebellion. It’s a kind of rebellion that I find totally ridiculous – the idea that just existing in front of other people is transgressive isI don’t even know how else to put it.ON WHEAT AND DEATH.
On wheat and death. By Michelle | Published: November 26, 2013. Several months ago, I happened upon this little review about the connection between wheat (and other grains) on inflammation, which was pretty interesting. It reports that there are plausible physiological mechanisms linking wheat to inflammation, that there is some animaland some
THE FAT NUTRITIONISTLEARN TO EATABOUTWHAT IS NORMAL EATINGMEDIAARTICLES & EVIDENCEARCHIVES When I speak with clients, a theme that often comes up is the question of what is true and what is false in nutrition. Yesterday, an article about the demonization of fat made headlines, and along with it, whipped up that familiar confusion about nutrition and people asking a very familiar question: what is actually the truth? It’s a good question, an important question, and one which will ABOUT - FAT NUTRITIONIST I have an accredited degree (BASc) in nutrition from Ryerson University. I work online to help people stop dieting, deal with picky eating, and relearn normal eating. I’m a member of Dietitians of Canada, and the Association for Size Diversity and Health. I’ve completed the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics-approved Treating theDieting
WHAT IS NORMAL EATING? Normal eating is giving yourself permission to eat sometimes because you are happy, sad or bored, or just because it feels good. Normal eating is mostly three meals a day, or four or five, or it can be choosing to munch along the way. It is leaving some cookies on the plate because you know you can have some again tomorrow, or it iseating more
ARTICLES & EVIDENCE
Articles & Evidence. Below are some articles (some will be full-text, some are just abstracts) that go into some of the controversies around dieting, weight, and eating. A qualitative investigation of dieting, weight loss, and physical exercise, in obese individuals – Nutr J, 2008. Adolescent beverage habits and changes in weight over timeONLINE FAT CAMP.
Online fat camp. Ahem. This is kind of last-minute, but the long weekend really threw me off. For a long time, I’ve been doing individual sessions teaching people how to eat normally after giving up dieting (in addition to writing this blog, of course.) Doing individual sessions means that they are pretty expensive, and itlimits the number
ON NOT BEING A DIETITIAN. On not being a dietitian. Just a note – this is a post directed at systemic issues, and specifically the way my field is structured, and is not at all a complaint about the work I do currently, which I love, or about my readers and clients, whom I also love. It’s also an explanation of sorts for the media, who often mistake me for adietitian.
LESSON THREE
Mechanical Hunger is the easiest to understand, and sometimes to recognize – it’s the feeling of an empty stomach, often accompanied by growling or churning, or a sense of hollowness or tightness in the stomach. (Keeping in mind the physical reality of the stomach – that it hovers higher up than most of us visualize, justbelow where your
THE FAT NUTRITIONIST At the moment, I’m working on my internship research project, which is a critical analysis of a popular diet program, The Whole30. Over the next week or so, I plan to post snippets of the themes I’m finding as I analyze some text that goes along with the program. IF ONLY POOR PEOPLE UNDERSTOOD NUTRITION! If only poor people understood nutrition! French version of this post here, courtesy Stéphanie Potin-Grevrend. It seems like some people are constantly wringing their hands about how poor people eat (to wit: badly.) And the most popularly proposed solution is to teach them ( “them”) more about nutrition! Or educate them in general.ON WHEAT AND DEATH.
On wheat and death. By Michelle | Published: November 26, 2013. Several months ago, I happened upon this little review about the connection between wheat (and other grains) on inflammation, which was pretty interesting. It reports that there are plausible physiological mechanisms linking wheat to inflammation, that there is some animaland some
THE FAT NUTRITIONISTLEARN TO EATABOUTWHAT IS NORMAL EATINGMEDIAARTICLES & EVIDENCEARCHIVES When I speak with clients, a theme that often comes up is the question of what is true and what is false in nutrition. Yesterday, an article about the demonization of fat made headlines, and along with it, whipped up that familiar confusion about nutrition and people asking a very familiar question: what is actually the truth? It’s a good question, an important question, and one which will ABOUT - FAT NUTRITIONIST I have an accredited degree (BASc) in nutrition from Ryerson University. I work online to help people stop dieting, deal with picky eating, and relearn normal eating. I’m a member of Dietitians of Canada, and the Association for Size Diversity and Health. I’ve completed the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics-approved Treating theDieting
WHAT IS NORMAL EATING? Normal eating is giving yourself permission to eat sometimes because you are happy, sad or bored, or just because it feels good. Normal eating is mostly three meals a day, or four or five, or it can be choosing to munch along the way. It is leaving some cookies on the plate because you know you can have some again tomorrow, or it iseating more
ARTICLES & EVIDENCE
Articles & Evidence. Below are some articles (some will be full-text, some are just abstracts) that go into some of the controversies around dieting, weight, and eating. A qualitative investigation of dieting, weight loss, and physical exercise, in obese individuals – Nutr J, 2008. Adolescent beverage habits and changes in weight over timeONLINE FAT CAMP.
Online fat camp. Ahem. This is kind of last-minute, but the long weekend really threw me off. For a long time, I’ve been doing individual sessions teaching people how to eat normally after giving up dieting (in addition to writing this blog, of course.) Doing individual sessions means that they are pretty expensive, and itlimits the number
ON NOT BEING A DIETITIAN. On not being a dietitian. Just a note – this is a post directed at systemic issues, and specifically the way my field is structured, and is not at all a complaint about the work I do currently, which I love, or about my readers and clients, whom I also love. It’s also an explanation of sorts for the media, who often mistake me for adietitian.
LESSON THREE
Mechanical Hunger is the easiest to understand, and sometimes to recognize – it’s the feeling of an empty stomach, often accompanied by growling or churning, or a sense of hollowness or tightness in the stomach. (Keeping in mind the physical reality of the stomach – that it hovers higher up than most of us visualize, justbelow where your
THE FAT NUTRITIONIST At the moment, I’m working on my internship research project, which is a critical analysis of a popular diet program, The Whole30. Over the next week or so, I plan to post snippets of the themes I’m finding as I analyze some text that goes along with the program. IF ONLY POOR PEOPLE UNDERSTOOD NUTRITION! If only poor people understood nutrition! French version of this post here, courtesy Stéphanie Potin-Grevrend. It seems like some people are constantly wringing their hands about how poor people eat (to wit: badly.) And the most popularly proposed solution is to teach them ( “them”) more about nutrition! Or educate them in general.ON WHEAT AND DEATH.
On wheat and death. By Michelle | Published: November 26, 2013. Several months ago, I happened upon this little review about the connection between wheat (and other grains) on inflammation, which was pretty interesting. It reports that there are plausible physiological mechanisms linking wheat to inflammation, that there is some animaland some
ARTICLES & EVIDENCE
Articles & Evidence. Below are some articles (some will be full-text, some are just abstracts) that go into some of the controversies around dieting, weight, and eating. A qualitative investigation of dieting, weight loss, and physical exercise, in obese individuals – Nutr J, 2008. Adolescent beverage habits and changes in weight over time MEDIA - THE FAT NUTRITIONIST Media. A few places where people have been nice enough to mention my name, or even let me write some stuff: Eating Toward Immortality – by yours truly, The Atlantic, February 2017. The Unhealthy Truth Behind ‘Wellness’ and ‘Clean Eating’ – Ruby Tandoh, Vice, May 2016. 14 Ways I Learned To Be A Happy Plus-Size Woman – KayeToal
DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS FROM MY KITCHEN 5) If there are potatoes involved, start prepping them since they take the longest to cook. Wash, peel, cut into chunks, etc. 6) Start chopping onions or other vegetables, if needed, keeping a bowl for garbage scraps right on the counter. Or the plastic bag the vegetables came in, if there is one.ON WHEAT AND DEATH.
On wheat and death. By Michelle | Published: November 26, 2013. Several months ago, I happened upon this little review about the connection between wheat (and other grains) on inflammation, which was pretty interesting. It reports that there are plausible physiological mechanisms linking wheat to inflammation, that there is some animaland some
BASIC MAMMAL MAINTENANCE, OR HOW TO BE NICE TO YOURSELF. Basic mammal maintenance, or How to be nice to yourself. Continuing on the theme of childhood neglect, my nonscientific gut-check tells me that if people were mean or indifferent or unable to care for you while you were a kid, you might lack the skills to care for yourself as an adult. This can lead to a place of acute suffering. COOKING FOR YOURSELF: YOU ARE WORTH THE EFFORT. Cooking for yourself: You are worth the effort. I think this is a lesson that all of us could stand a refresher in, myself included, as we continue down the path toward feeding ourselves like competent adults. Caveat: Feeling that it’s not worth the effort to prepare food for yourself is very different from literally not having theenergy or
NUTRITION AGNOSTICISM. Nutrition agnosticism. By Michelle | Published: March 19, 2012. On this blog, I talk a lot about the how of eating, with little attention to the what. There are a few reasons for this. One is my belief that, until you have a solid foundation for how to eat, it’sTHE THIRD OPTION.
The third option. By Michelle | Published: June 21, 2013. Cross-posted to Shameless. Two days ago, there were rumblings. First, I heard that the American Medical Association’s science council had advised them against declaring “obesity” a disease. My initial feeling was one of mild surprise – hadn’t they declared it a disease already?THE DESERT ISLAND.
I’m conscious when I go out in public that my very presence is a tiny act of rebellion. It’s a kind of rebellion that I find totally ridiculous – the idea that just existing in front of other people is transgressive isI don’t even know how else to put it. YOU DON’T HAVE TO FIGURE OUT THE UNIVERSAL TRUTH OF NUTRITION. When I speak with clients, a theme that often comes up is the question of what is true and what is false in nutrition. Yesterday, an article about the demonization of fat made headlines, and along with it, whipped up that familiar confusion about nutrition and people asking a very familiar question: what is actually the truth? It’s a good question, an important question, and one which will THE FAT NUTRITIONISTLEARN TO EATABOUTWHAT IS NORMAL EATINGMEDIAARTICLES & EVIDENCEARCHIVES When I speak with clients, a theme that often comes up is the question of what is true and what is false in nutrition. Yesterday, an article about the demonization of fat made headlines, and along with it, whipped up that familiar confusion about nutrition and people asking a very familiar question: what is actually the truth? It’s a good question, an important question, and one which will ABOUT - FAT NUTRITIONIST I have an accredited degree (BASc) in nutrition from Ryerson University. I work online to help people stop dieting, deal with picky eating, and relearn normal eating. I’m a member of Dietitians of Canada, and the Association for Size Diversity and Health. I’ve completed the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics-approved Treating theDieting
WHAT IS NORMAL EATING? Normal eating is giving yourself permission to eat sometimes because you are happy, sad or bored, or just because it feels good. Normal eating is mostly three meals a day, or four or five, or it can be choosing to munch along the way. It is leaving some cookies on the plate because you know you can have some again tomorrow, or it iseating more
ONLINE FAT CAMP.
Online fat camp. Ahem. This is kind of last-minute, but the long weekend really threw me off. For a long time, I’ve been doing individual sessions teaching people how to eat normally after giving up dieting (in addition to writing this blog, of course.) Doing individual sessions means that they are pretty expensive, and itlimits the number
NO VACANCY - FAT NUTRITIONIST No Vacancy. Thanks for checking me out! I’m sorry to say that my calendar is completely full and I’m not able to sign up any new clients as of May, 2021. This is the first time I’ve had to do this, so I’m pretty sure it’s due to the pandemic causing havoc with people’s eating. Rest THE FAT NUTRITIONIST At the moment, I’m working on my internship research project, which is a critical analysis of a popular diet program, The Whole30. Over the next week or so, I plan to post snippets of the themes I’m finding as I analyze some text that goes along with the program. ON NOT BEING A DIETITIAN. On not being a dietitian. Just a note – this is a post directed at systemic issues, and specifically the way my field is structured, and is not at all a complaint about the work I do currently, which I love, or about my readers and clients, whom I also love. It’s also an explanation of sorts for the media, who often mistake me for adietitian.
LESSON THREE
Mechanical Hunger is the easiest to understand, and sometimes to recognize – it’s the feeling of an empty stomach, often accompanied by growling or churning, or a sense of hollowness or tightness in the stomach. (Keeping in mind the physical reality of the stomach – that it hovers higher up than most of us visualize, justbelow where your
THE DESERT ISLAND.
I’m conscious when I go out in public that my very presence is a tiny act of rebellion. It’s a kind of rebellion that I find totally ridiculous – the idea that just existing in front of other people is transgressive isI don’t even know how else to put it. ON NOT BEING FED ENOUGH AS A CHILD. On not being fed enough as a child. By Michelle | Published: March 15, 2016. This is one of the painful truths of my job: discovering that sometimes children, especially fat kids, or kids whose caregivers suspect they will one day be fat, don’t get fed enough. Sometimes those kids grow up and become my clients. THE FAT NUTRITIONISTLEARN TO EATABOUTWHAT IS NORMAL EATINGMEDIAARTICLES & EVIDENCEARCHIVES When I speak with clients, a theme that often comes up is the question of what is true and what is false in nutrition. Yesterday, an article about the demonization of fat made headlines, and along with it, whipped up that familiar confusion about nutrition and people asking a very familiar question: what is actually the truth? It’s a good question, an important question, and one which will ABOUT - FAT NUTRITIONIST I have an accredited degree (BASc) in nutrition from Ryerson University. I work online to help people stop dieting, deal with picky eating, and relearn normal eating. I’m a member of Dietitians of Canada, and the Association for Size Diversity and Health. I’ve completed the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics-approved Treating theDieting
WHAT IS NORMAL EATING? Normal eating is giving yourself permission to eat sometimes because you are happy, sad or bored, or just because it feels good. Normal eating is mostly three meals a day, or four or five, or it can be choosing to munch along the way. It is leaving some cookies on the plate because you know you can have some again tomorrow, or it iseating more
ONLINE FAT CAMP.
Online fat camp. Ahem. This is kind of last-minute, but the long weekend really threw me off. For a long time, I’ve been doing individual sessions teaching people how to eat normally after giving up dieting (in addition to writing this blog, of course.) Doing individual sessions means that they are pretty expensive, and itlimits the number
NO VACANCY - FAT NUTRITIONIST No Vacancy. Thanks for checking me out! I’m sorry to say that my calendar is completely full and I’m not able to sign up any new clients as of May, 2021. This is the first time I’ve had to do this, so I’m pretty sure it’s due to the pandemic causing havoc with people’s eating. Rest THE FAT NUTRITIONIST At the moment, I’m working on my internship research project, which is a critical analysis of a popular diet program, The Whole30. Over the next week or so, I plan to post snippets of the themes I’m finding as I analyze some text that goes along with the program. ON NOT BEING A DIETITIAN. On not being a dietitian. Just a note – this is a post directed at systemic issues, and specifically the way my field is structured, and is not at all a complaint about the work I do currently, which I love, or about my readers and clients, whom I also love. It’s also an explanation of sorts for the media, who often mistake me for adietitian.
LESSON THREE
Mechanical Hunger is the easiest to understand, and sometimes to recognize – it’s the feeling of an empty stomach, often accompanied by growling or churning, or a sense of hollowness or tightness in the stomach. (Keeping in mind the physical reality of the stomach – that it hovers higher up than most of us visualize, justbelow where your
THE DESERT ISLAND.
I’m conscious when I go out in public that my very presence is a tiny act of rebellion. It’s a kind of rebellion that I find totally ridiculous – the idea that just existing in front of other people is transgressive isI don’t even know how else to put it. ON NOT BEING FED ENOUGH AS A CHILD. On not being fed enough as a child. By Michelle | Published: March 15, 2016. This is one of the painful truths of my job: discovering that sometimes children, especially fat kids, or kids whose caregivers suspect they will one day be fat, don’t get fed enough. Sometimes those kids grow up and become my clients. NO VACANCY - FAT NUTRITIONIST No Vacancy. Thanks for checking me out! I’m sorry to say that my calendar is completely full and I’m not able to sign up any new clients as of May, 2021. This is the first time I’ve had to do this, so I’m pretty sure it’s due to the pandemic causing havoc with people’s eating. RestARTICLES & EVIDENCE
Articles & Evidence. Below are some articles (some will be full-text, some are just abstracts) that go into some of the controversies around dieting, weight, and eating. A qualitative investigation of dieting, weight loss, and physical exercise, in obese individuals – Nutr J, 2008. Adolescent beverage habits and changes in weight over time MEDIA - THE FAT NUTRITIONIST Media. A few places where people have been nice enough to mention my name, or even let me write some stuff: Eating Toward Immortality – by yours truly, The Atlantic, February 2017. The Unhealthy Truth Behind ‘Wellness’ and ‘Clean Eating’ – Ruby Tandoh, Vice, May 2016. 14 Ways I Learned To Be A Happy Plus-Size Woman – KayeToal
YOUR BODY IS YOUR HOME. No. Rather, your body is the space within which you exist. It’s the material assertion that you have the right to exist in this world, that you have a place in it. It’s the concept of ‘home’ — not a house, a thing to be remodelled at whim, bought and sold — but a cherished, adored, childhood home comprising memories both sad andsweet.
ON NOT BEING A DIETITIAN. On not being a dietitian. Just a note – this is a post directed at systemic issues, and specifically the way my field is structured, and is not at all a complaint about the work I do currently, which I love, or about my readers and clients, whom I also love. It’s also an explanation of sorts for the media, who often mistake me for adietitian.
LESSON THREE
Mechanical Hunger is the easiest to understand, and sometimes to recognize – it’s the feeling of an empty stomach, often accompanied by growling or churning, or a sense of hollowness or tightness in the stomach. (Keeping in mind the physical reality of the stomach – that it hovers higher up than most of us visualize, justbelow where your
BASIC MAMMAL MAINTENANCE, OR HOW TO BE NICE TO YOURSELF. Basic mammal maintenance, or How to be nice to yourself. Continuing on the theme of childhood neglect, my nonscientific gut-check tells me that if people were mean or indifferent or unable to care for you while you were a kid, you might lack the skills to care for yourself as an adult. This can lead to a place of acute suffering. UPCOMING: AN ANALYSIS OF THE WHOLE30 Upcoming: An analysis of the Whole30. At the moment, I’m working on my internship research project, which is a critical analysis of a popular diet program, The Whole30. Over the next week or so, I plan to post snippets of the themes I’m finding as I analyze some text that goes along with the program. Please come back if you’re interested COOKING FOR YOURSELF: YOU ARE WORTH THE EFFORT. Cooking for yourself: You are worth the effort. I think this is a lesson that all of us could stand a refresher in, myself included, as we continue down the path toward feeding ourselves like competent adults. Caveat: Feeling that it’s not worth the effort to prepare food for yourself is very different from literally not having theenergy or
THE LAST SUPPER SYNDROME The Last Supper Syndrome. Happy Mardi Gras! Also known as Fat Tuesday. Or Shrove Tuesday. Or pancakes-for-supper. It struck me as an odd coincidence that, just last night, I was talking with one of my groups about the thing I call the Last Supper Phenomenon. Here’s how it happens: Something happens that makes you feel bad about your weight. The Fat NutritionistSkip to content
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THE UNBEARABLE VULNERABILITY OF EATING ENOUGH.By Michelle
| Published: August 28, 2018 If I were to pull a theme out of all the conversations I had about food and eating this summer, it would be black-and-white thinking. By that I mean, thinking in all-or-nothing terms, swinging between two extremes, and never pausing to consider the middle ground. In fact, actively _resisting_ the middle ground. There is so much black-and-white thinking about eating in our culture, that sometimes I start to wonder if we have an allergy to moderation. It seems that moderation (by which I mean: eating enough to feed your life, while respecting your body’s fullness signals) must be a place of intense vulnerability, or we would not avoid it with such urgency. Some people restrict their food intake in order to give their bodies less than they need, and some people feed their bodies more than they have the capacity to process, and I think both sets of behaviours are encouraged by our culture in many ways. Let me stop to define “eating moderately,” since we live in a cultural hellscape that takes words like this and redefines them to mean something like “eating less than you want or need and pretending it’s okay.” In my own life and in my work with clients, I’ve come to understand moderation as eating _enough_, and _pleasurably_ enough, to be able to stop thinking about food for awhile.
Eating moderately means your sensations of hunger go away for a bit, usually a few hours, and thoughts about food that are precursors to hunger (not hobbyist enthusiasm about food, and not the food preoccupation that is either a hallmark of long-term deprivation or a coping mechanism that has come to replace all other coping mechanisms) also cease. At the same time, you’re not troubled by the discomforts of over-fullness, or signs of physical distress that come with having eaten something that doesn’t agree with you, in a quantity your bodycan’t handle.
In this space of
not-thinking-or-fantasizing-or-feeling-uncomfortable-about-food, there is room for thinking about, and doing, the things that make lifemeaningful.
In fact, I suspect that’s exactly where the vulnerability comes in: because if you’re not obsessing about food, either eating less of it than you need, or more than your body truly wants, what should you_do_?
It is a big, frightening question. Especially in a culture obsessed with careerism, credentialism, and “achievement” of a very specific and limited variety. When I started this work, I didn’t realize this would be such a source of terror for people, and that, in order to avoid it, food obsession and disordered behaviour might rush in. But once I witnessed how often people actively resist eating in a way that is comfortable, even though they may suffer intensely from their disordered eating, I had to ask why. As far as I can tell, for many people I’ve talked to, it’s about avoiding the uncertainty and inherent riskiness of life. One of the major sources of uncertainty and risk is the question of what to do, and how to make meaning, with the limited time we have. The only comfort I have to offer is this: humans are meaning-making machines. Our lives, when told back to ourselves, become stories that tell universal truths about being alive. There is pain and sorrow, joy and wonder, filth and beauty in living. Meaningful lives are not reserved only for the rich or beautiful or uniquely gifted. There is meaning in being of service to others, in making someone’s day slightly less crappy, in laughing with a friend, making music, petting a dog, eating a good meal, or watching the wind stir some leaves. Everything we do and experience can be made into meaning, if we’re willing to be here for the experience. When you are hurt or frightened very badly, it can become tempting not to do much at all: not to connect with others, not even to experience the present moment, your body and the world as they are, right now. Life can get very small, and may feel empty and pointless. If this is the situation you find yourself in, the only answer I know is to find a way, maybe with support from a friend or therapist, to start being present and pushing out again. Being among people, among animals and nature, feeling what is happening in your body, and feeling compassion for yourself and for every small, warm, breathing thing alive in this big, cold, inert universe reminds you that we are all in this together. We’re part of the organic mulch that makes up the thin, sentient top layer of earth. Don’t go underground. Don’t substitute a life for made-up rulesabout food.
You’re vulnerable because you’re alive. Being alive means feeling things, so feel them. Grab a pillow, an animal, or another human if it helps, and let yourself. Try a thing, make a mistake, tell someone you like their earrings. Eat a meal that fills you up and gives you life. No matter what you feel, or what has happened to you, we love you anyway and we want you here.Posted in eating
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WHY I WRITE SO MUCH ABOUT IMMORTALITY, SIGNIFICANCE, AND INJUSTICE.By Michelle
| Published: June 7, 2018 In the past couple of years, I’ve been more active on Twitter than here. But I miss being here. I want to round up my notes and do a little explaining. What follows are links to threads that seem relevant: Where I linked Terror Management Theory to diet culture(more)
explicitly (than before.) This was the rough draft of the article that later appeared in _The Atlantic._
Where I shared my (sketchy and preliminary) thoughts about neoreaction, politics in the US, and more Terror Management Theory.There
was also a Metafilter thread about it, and people said nice things, which is particularly nice for reasons I don’t have the words for…yet. (You know me, it’s onlya matter of time.)
After the van attackhere
in Toronto, before we knew the motive.And a follow-up.
There are probably one or two more, but they are submerged in the sands of Twitter and it will take some digging to find them. So, if you’re wondering what the endgame of all of this tweeting about significance and immortality is for me, it’s this: it is my personal believe that no one can do anything that will mark them with lasting significance. No book, no building, no work of art, no hospital wing with their name on it, no great fortune, not even the destruction of the entire planet will leave a legacy that marks out an individual person as significant on a truly cosmic scale. Certainly, no amount of hierarchy-building or climbing will do it. (I could go into why, but instead, refer to this standalone tweet.)
Now, the explanation. Many of my young years were wasted by the idea that certain bodies are inherently superior to other bodies. I gave over years of my life to shame because my body was supposed to be bad and undeserving of its basic needs and existence, and as a result, I missed time and life experiences that will never be returned to me. And I know this is true for many, many people who live caught up in the same hierarchy, under the same system of ideas that certain bodies and certain people are worth less than others, and many, many people have had smaller or larger fractions of their lives wasted more or less violently, as a result. This bothers me. Which is why I started this website, and why I chosethis career.
People who cannot admit their own insignificance or mortality seem to think that spoiling other people’s time by shaming or oppressing them will somehow add to their lives, and while it does succeed in creating misery and even shortening some people’s lives, it doesn’t make the perpetrator immortal or even significant. It’s a fool’s errand, a waste of one’s time, and involves the wasting of other people’s time without their consent. Life is fragile, short, and precious. The best any of us can do is make our time good and meaningful. We do that by creating things, feeling and experiencing things, and bonding with other people in a way that acknowledges their inherent and unchanging value. If I can clear obsession with food and shame about having a body out of people’s way so they can get down to living, then I have done a good job. If I can help chip away at some of the structures that unjustly limit people’s use of their finite and precious lives, evenbetter.
In some form or another, I have been writing about this stuff for sixyears ,
and thinking about it for twenty-five. I figure why stop now. _As always, the after-party happens in comments.
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THE DESERT ISLAND.
By Michelle
| Published: May 30, 2018 I’m conscious when I go out in public that my very presence is a tiny act of rebellion. It’s a kind of rebellion that I find totally ridiculous – the idea that just existing in front of other people is transgressive is…I don’t even know how else to put it. It’s mind-bendingly, surreally, ludicrously ridiculous. And it says a lot more about the world we live in than it says about me. For one thing, it says that the world we live in is completely messed up when it comes to appearance-based discrimination, social hierarchies, and how we value people as members of society. It says that, when I walk out onto the street, some people assume my body is a tragedy, a cautionary tale, or a fetish object. And that they have certain rights over that body. They have the right to make pronouncements about it to my face, or just barely behind my back where I can still hear them, and that they can assume all kinds of things about my life and my character and personality based on how fat I am. Not everyone does this, and certainly not every time I leave the house. But it has happened enough that each time I walk out the door,it crosses my mind.
I think about the joggers who mocked me as they ran past, I think about the men at the street market who followed me until my husband intervened, I think about the men shouting at me from cars, and I think about all the photos of fat ladies with bodies like mine that have been used as objects of ridicule on funny cards and websites, because they dared do something as transgressive as wear a bathing suit at the beach, as though they were human or something. I think about how much I love the beach, how much I love the water, how good I am at floating, or surface diving, or snorkeling, or kayaking – and then I think about all the people back on shore. Very often, I think about the desert island scenario, which is something I often ask my clients to do when they are caught up in blaming their body for things that may or may not be its fault. The desert island scenario goes like this: If you were stranded on a beautiful desert island, with no one else around, and with plenty of food and water accessible to you, what problems would being fat cause you? This can help you separate out which difficulties you’re having are actually located in your body, and which difficulties are located in a culture that treats fat people poorly. For me, the answers are something like: I might walk kind of slow in the sand because I sink into it more, and I would probably be sweaty and hot and maybe get the chub-rub. On the upside, I wouldn’t have to worry about people judging me for being sweaty, I would wear whatever is most comfortable without wondering how I looked. I might have trouble climbing trees, but I would be totally fine in the water. Things I wouldn’t have to worry about: people judging me and treating me poorly, feeling self-conscious about how I look, having trouble finding clothes that fit me, wondering whether I will fit in that chair with arms, worrying that they might throw me off the airplane, playing the Good Fatty all the time, having to constantly prove that I am 1) not ignorant, 2) not lazy, 3) not gluttonous, 4) not smelly, 5) not sick. As if any of those things affect my intrinsicvalue.
Once you know what problems are located where, it gives you some information about the source of the problem, and how might be the best way to handle it. Problems located in the body might need a solution that is body-focused. You may need accommodations or physical therapy or medicine. Problems that come about simply because you can’t avoid being part of society, well…they probably require some personal fortification and self-compassion in the short-term, and changes to the culture in the long-term. Next time you’re blaming your body for something, try it. Would this problem still exist if you were stranded on a beautiful desert island with enough food and water? If so, what is the kindest way you can help your body? If not, maybe your body isn’t the issue. _Hi! Looks like I wrote this post a long time ago, and never posted it. I might write it differently today, but here it is. Feel free to add your experience and thoughts in comments._
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DIET CULTURE AND IMMORTALITY.By Michelle
| Published: February 8, 2017 I know it’s been quiet (TOO quiet) around here lately. What can I say? I’ve been working my face off. I did write something for _The Atlantic_,
though, after a good long period of grumpy hermiting. Here’s a good chunk, in case you want a sample before committing to a click: > The act of ingestion is embroidered with so much cultural meaning > that, for most people, its roots in spare, brutal survival are > entirely hidden. Even for people in extreme poverty, for whom > survival is a more immediate concern, the cultural meanings of food > remain critical. Wealthy or poor, we eat to celebrate, we eat to > mourn, we eat because it’s mealtime, we eat as a way to bond with > others, we eat for entertainment and pleasure. It is not a > coincidence that the survival function of food is buried beneath all > of this—who wants to think about staving off death each time they > tuck into a bowl of cereal? Forgetting about death is the entire > point of food culture.>
> When it comes to food, Becker said that humans “quickly saw beyond > mere physical nourishment,” and that the desire for more > life—not just delaying death today, but clearing the bar of > mortality entirely—grew into an obsession with transforming the > self into a perfected object that might achieve a sort of > immorality. Diet culture and its variations, such as clean eating, > are cultural structures we have built to attempt to transcend our> animality.
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> By creating and following diets, humans not only eat to stay alive, > but they fit themselves into a cultural edifice that is larger, and > more permanent, than their bodies. It is a sort of immortality > ritual, and rituals must be performed socially. Clean eating rarely, > if ever, occurs in secret. If you haven’t evangelized about it, > joined a movement around it, or been praised publicly for it, have > you truly cleansed? I’m going back to grumpy hermiting for a while. I’ll send up another flare if anything exciting happens. Posted in Unified Theory|
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YOU DON’T HAVE TO FIGURE OUT THE UNIVERSAL TRUTH OF NUTRITION.By Michelle
| Published: May 24, 2016 When I speak with clients, a theme that often comes up is the question of what is true and what is false in nutrition. Yesterday, an article about the demonization of fat made headlines, and along with it, whipped up that familiar confusion about nutrition and people asking a very familiar question: what isactually the truth?
It’s a good question, an important question, and one which will likely keep researchers and dietitians busy for decades. But the thing that always strikes me about this question is _who_ asks it, and _who_ seems to feel most tormented over the fact that there are, seemingly, very few answers: usually a person who is neither a researcher or adietitian.
I’ve met many people who appear to be engaged in a one-person mission to discover the universal truth of human nutrition by conducting a series of uncontrolled experiments on themselves. It’s a very human, and very noble, undertaking, but one that always strikes me with its futility. It also carries with it a great deal of stress, and a great burden of effort with very little promise of reward forits champion.
I am fully supportive of people who enjoy conducting nutritional experimentation on themselves, though I’m not one of them, and it’s not a lifestyle I would recommend. Some people view it as a hobby, and come away with a few insights into their own body’s workings, largely unscathed. But this isn’t true for everyone, and my own clients (some of whom are people Ellyn Satter referred to as “Dieting Casualties”) are
a great source of information on why this is. When the foundational workings of your relationship with food are not yet in place (the lower tiers of Satter’s Hierarchy of Food Needs ), it can actually be destructive to that relationship to place the burden of experimentation on top of it. Nutritional experiments reside in the very top of the Hierarchy of Food Needs, under the label of “instrumental food,” which means eating in a way that gets you some symbolic or health-related outcome. Certainly people can make instrumental food choices without damaging their relationship to food — but not before the lower-order needs are fulfilled and stable. The unfortunate thing is, the way nutrition is communicated in our culture and even from our established health authorities, “instrumental” food choices are usually front and center, before (and often instead of) any of the lower-order needs. Thus, most people, when they start to think about nutrition, try to _begin_ from this point rather than working their way up to it. This results in people who haven’t already established, for example, feeding themselves regularly — or who don’t have quite enough money to buy more expensive “instrumental” groceries, or who feel guilty and ashamed for taking pleasure in food, or who only have a handful of foods that they know how to eat and like — attempting to impose upon their eating habits completely new and burdensome foodrules.
Which usually ends in spectacular “failure” a little way down the road. (I put “failure” in scare-quotes because it’s hard for me to view it as an _actual_ failure when an arbitrary set of diet rules falls by the wayside — your body probably views it as an unqualified success, but to the person making the attempt, it is demoralizing allthe same.)
The bigger issue, of course, is this: _it is literally not your job to figure out the universal truth of nutrition._ Unless you’re a researcher who has been funded to do this, not only is your sample size too small, but you run the very real risk of hurting yourself and destroying your relationship with food. Please remind yourself of this when the temptation to conduct yet another uncontrolled experimentcomes your way.
You are not obligated to uncover, all by yourself, with your mouth and your body, what holds true for all people with regard to nutrition. Your only job is to feed yourself faithfully, get comfortable with food and your enjoyment of it, and then to find out what is true _for you._ The only universal rule of nutrition that I’ve discovered in my many years of studying and practicing it, aside from eat or die, is
that humans are massively omnivorous and nutrition is extremely individual. Your truth will be different than someone else’s. That’s okay. Your truth counts too.__
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