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Food fear and righteous eating
Guest blogger Nancy McHugh was interviewed on Utah Public Radio by Tom Williams on his show Access Utah. They talked about the lecture she was giving at Utah State University on food marketing, food...
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Disrupt your Diet Offers a Beginner’s Guide to Eating Right
Disrupt Your Diet writes: What prompted the creation of the advice graphic? This! (And the hundreds of others like it.) For Tracy’s take on “clean eating” see Living Clean without Eating Clean.
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Disrupt your Diet Offers a Beginner’s Guide to Eating Right
Disrupt Your Diet writes: What prompted the creation of the advice graphic? This! (And the hundreds of others like it.) For Tracy’s take on “clean eating” see Living Clean without Eating Clean.
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Sugar free September? Good God no?
We’ve thought a lot about sugar here on the blog. There was Tracy’s plan to dump sugar, your reaction, and her change in plans. See her posts Dumping Sugar: this is not a detox. and Dumping the Sugar...
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I love air too, but not for lunch
Image description: a colour image of smooth stones–white, grey, brown, rose-coloured. The largest one in the centre is grey with white specks and has “Just breathe” etched into it. I’ve been blogging...
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A return to fitness in 2018 (Guest post)
I love to make New Year’s resolutions, although I sometimes have uneven results. My main and most exciting New Year’s resolution for 2018 is to do 218 workouts – they don’t have to be particularly...
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Weight Watchers is going after children and Sam thinks that’s extra awful
As you may know, if you’re a blog regular, I hate Weight Watchers. They’re now marketing to children, offering free classes with parent’s permission. See here. Rebecca Scritchfield writes, “Weight...
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Where are the images of orthoxeric men? Or, our culture is so very weird
Scrolling through Facebook, as one might in an airport departure lounge (okay, who am I kidding, as I do everywhere) I burst out laughing when I came across this post from the blog’s Rebecca Kukla:...
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If not Weight Watchers for children, then what?
Regular readers know that I’m no fan (to put it mildly) of Weight Watchers. See I hate you Weight Watchers. I think it’s extra awful that they are offering free summer memberships to children and I’ve...
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Eat me, drink me: Philosophical reflections on our attitudes about children...
*That’s the title of a talk I have a few years ago at the Vermont Food Ethics Workshop. Recently I started thinking again about children and diets, in light of the whole “summer Weight Watchers for...
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Chocolate: A yummy delicious treat
I’ve had a bag of these in the house for awhile as my go to treat in lieu of dessert. They’re delicious. Unlike Tracy, I haven’t broken up with chocolate. But while the chocolates are often the...
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Really, Walmart? Really?
I don’t love Walmart. I don’t love Cosmo Magazine. I really don’t love what Walmart has done with Cosmo Magazine in 5000 locations in the good ole’ USA. Sam brought this article to our attention on our...
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We are more than a collection of parts
Women being active and not worrying about thigh gap, or hip cleavage, or any other nonsense Photo by Kyle Pham on Unsplash It’s tiring to be female in this world. I can only speak from a...
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Corsets to help that eating disorder along…
Look what came through my newsfeed on Black Friday: “It’s not a corset, it’s shapewear! It’s made of the same stuff as gym leggings. Why? Well, it keeps you conscious of everything you’re eating, it...
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Metabolic Health Is a Feminist Issue #tbt
For #tbt posts I like to go back to the same month in a previous year. Today we go back six years, to February 28, 2013, when I posted about metabolic health. Reading posts from the early days helps me...
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The Meditation of Weightlifting (Guest Post)
This is me at the Minnesota Open. I am doing a clean and jerk. To talk about all the beneficial and amazing things weightlifting has given to me, it is necessary to talk about the not so great...
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Losing My (Diet) Religion (Guest Post)
by Mavis Fenn (This post discusses disordered eating. Please be aware it may be triggering for some.) Eating issues began when I was ten. There were two contributing factors. The first was that I was...
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Intuitive eating — beyond sports nutrition
Image description: a single fresh strawberry with leaf still attached to the top. As long time readers may know, I am a big fan when it comes to intuitive eating. I’ve written about it lots, including...
View ArticleStill Recovering From Holiday Overeating? Here’s what I’m doing next.
CW: Discusses disordered eating habits and negative self-talk. Continuing with my normal life. No, seriously. The moment the celebrations are over and I feel like, “hmm, maybe it’s time to eat fewer...
View ArticleIt is Time to Retire the Phrase “Binge Watch”
I’m done using the term “binge watch.” I didn’t “binge” on the new-to-me Buffy the Vampire Slayer podcast I found a few weeks ago. I’m not “binging” on The Queen’s Gambit right now. I know many of...
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