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Introducing new newsletter features: community and events 🧠 This newsletter is getting a big upgrade. Here's what you get: Live events, hosted inside the community and recorded for rewatching at your convenience. A community where you can post, ask questions, and communicate with other membe...

Nov 07, 2025 apple cider vinegar calories community events real food reduce sugar supplements weight gain what to eat

Quit Waiting for Motivation. Start Joining 🍎

I have a running theory about community being the antidote to the anxiety and pain of our atomized lives. At our core, we're villagers. We're wired to live and work among family and friends, doing hard things together. Community is infrastructure. I didn't really appreciate this until I started...

Oct 24, 2025 calories community events real food reduce sugar weight gain what to eat

Here's The Science of No-Diet Weight Loss (Finally)

And why this information is important to anyone who cares about their health. You're here for a reason. Healthy eating feels confusing, or you want to feel better. Maybe there's a metabolic disorder upending your life. It could be weight gain, or high blood pressure/blood sugar/cholesterol (not ...

Oct 17, 2025 calories food processing real food salad ultra-processed weight gain what to eat

This is a perfect meal 🎣

I adore tinned fish, which makes me cool and smart. Sometimes, people disagree (about any of that), but I pay them no mind. Tinned fish is not the cat food adjacent stuff at the grocery store that looks weird and smells worse. It's just a way of preserving small, highly nutritious fish that gen...

Oct 03, 2025 calories cook! fish food processing real food salad weight gain what to eat

My oncologist fired me. 🍎

I mean, she was nice about it. But, yeah, don't come back. In 2014, I was diagnosed with an aggressive breast cancer. In 2017, I had a recurrence. I don't have enough space or tissues to tell you about the years of surgeries, scary visits, lost sleep, lost eyebrows, clinical fatigue, PTSD, unbel...

Sep 19, 2025 calories food processing real food reduce sugar weight gain what to eat

What workout is best for weight loss?

None. I know, rude. I don't mean to imply that exercise isn't beneficial for weight. It is, but not the way it's sold to us. The problem is that the question is a product of diet culture. Calories in, calories out. Formulas. Protocols. If I have to make myself move more, then what's the exact t...

Sep 12, 2025 bike ultra-processed walk weight loss workout

What if your body's right? 🍎

What if you already know? These were my thoughts when I read about Ozempic face or the volumes of loose skin people are contending with after rapid weight loss. Of course, the answer is surgery, fillers, and products. The fix for the fix. From my view, it feels brutal. Bodies respond to ultra-pr...

Sep 05, 2025 calories food processing real food reduce sugar weight gain what to eat

Does Sugar Cause Weight Gain?

Yes, given the way it's consumed in the Western world. We eat it nearly constantly as added sugars and treats with most meals, which keeps our bodies in overdrive. Learning how and when to consume sugar is central to ending chronic weight gain. The issue is less about being a person who craves s...

Aug 29, 2025 reducing sugar refined carbs sugar sugar consumption treat culture ultra-processed weight loss

My favorite reads of the week 🍎

Summer is winding down, bike rides are plentiful, and I can't stop eating figs from a tree in my neighborhood. Not to project too much equanimity, I read the news after all. Still, I love picnics on warm nights, tomatoes that taste like tomatoes, and sunsets at 8p. Now is a good time to be still...

Aug 22, 2025 calories food processing real food reduce sugar weight gain what to eat

Do I have to banish bread, rice, and pasta to have a healthy weight?

If you've gone back and forth about bread, rice, and pasta because of conflicting advice, this one's for you. There is a whole other way to think about and incorporate refined grains into your life without the attendant weight struggles. Instead of evaluating a food based on macros or calories, l...

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How do I buy in bulk without sabotaging myself?

Lessons from 15 years of weight mastery. Over the next few weeks, I'll outline how I approach day-to-day life differently now that I am no longer overweight. You'll get a look under the hood, as it were, of healthy weight living. Like a BEFORE & AFTER–but your life. While bodies vary in metabolis...

Aug 08, 2025 fast food life lessons treat culture ultra-processed weight loss

Think you're doing everything right (and can't lose weight)? So did I.

I spent years thinking I was doing 'everything right.' I was reasonably active, ate salads, hiked, and cooked at home most nights. It was hard to see what was so different when I looked at other people's lives. And yet, year after year, I continued to gain weight. About 2-5 pounds a year. One tou...

Aug 01, 2025 fast food life lessons treat culture ultra-processed weight loss

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I'm one of 4% who lost significant weight and kept it off past the ten-year mark.

I did it without apps, fasting schemes, calorie counting, or carb restriction.

In my newsletter I answer the question: How do I live well, delight in food, and still have a healthy weight?