Here comes summer! That wonderful time of year when we have been conditioned to sit on the sidelines or rather, stay out of the water. After all, our bodies looking nothing like those online. Whether it’s a different size, has different markings, or is proportioned differently, we have been told over and over and over…
Category: Diet Culture
Diet Culture Wins Once More: I am Binge Eating Again.
Diet Culture wins once more. Here I am again. Binge eating. Oh- cookies? I don’t need one or two, I need the whole box. They are here, available, and I’d better eat them all now so I can get back to not eating them again after. Pasta for dinner? Better cook an extra box. Because…
Please Stop Prescribing Weight Loss Without Knowing My History
I was sitting at the doctor’s office today getting the results of a sleep study. I have mild sleep disruption and I was given two treatment options; CPAP machine and weight loss. I looked the doctor and directly asked “is it proven that losing weight will in and of itself help my sleep apnea?” “Well”…
Bye-Bye Spanx and Other Ways I Have Let Myself Go
“She really let herself go.” How often do we hear people say this about women? Maybe her body shape is different than it used to be. Maybe she doesn’t get her hair cut regularly. Maybe she wears sweats and t-shirts now or doesn’t wear make-up anymore. Maybe it’s all of these. Maybe she has let…
New Year, NEW (smaller) YOU! Thoughts to Help you Through That Not-So-Wonderful Time of Year
Here it comes; that not-so-wonderful time of year. Those post-holiday weeks when we are assaulted with messaging that we are not enough; not thin enough, strong enough, healthy enough, young enough… we are not enough of anything, except when we are too much. There is so much to deconstruct about why this advertising works so…
I Only Work Out When I Feel Like It and I am Proud of It.
Me: “I only work out when I feel like it.” Them: “pssht. If you only work out when you feel like it you’ll never work out.” Me: “ I do workout. When I feel like it.” Them: “I workout a lot because I like to eat.” Me: “I like to eat.” Them: “but I like…
You are Worthy as You Are. No Diet Required.
Okay male Noom user on the commercial- you “got your life back” from losing 27 pounds? How much self-worth must you lack to let 27 pounds require the need to “get your life back”? Friends- don’t let this time of year rob you of joy. Don’t let the commercials that are designed by the best…
Weight Loss Makes you Gain Weight, Did you Know?
A few weeks ago I pondered losing weight to make running easier on my knees. (Click here to read). Since then, I have learned a term that encompasses all I have been learning about personally over the last couple of years; diet culture. I will do a separate post with resources because it is a…
Weight Loss as a Tool Instead of a Cultural Demand, Maybe.
When I was in my late twenties a specialist told me my knees were not capable of being a runner. So I ran a marathon. My knees had been problematic from my early teens. Running the marathon, fortunately, did not make them worse. I didn’t even start running until adulthood. I had not realized how…