If you’ve ever felt like you “failed” intuitive eating, this one’s for you.
It’s easy to fall in love with the promise: what if the solution to decades of dieting, emotional eating, or weight cycling was as simple as listening to your hunger and honoring your fullness?
No points, no macros, no w...
I’m back from ten days of gorging myself on paella, tapas, and Iberian ham (and not gaining even a pound). I know it sounds like a bougie statement of the obvious, but the noticeable absence of obesity in that country astounds me. Even the most rural towns have a patisserie on every block. I gue...
I did a thing!
The reactions you get when you tell people you're buying a motorcycle are evenly split between excitement and horror. Truth be told, I think I feel both, but I love big experiences, so I got it. I'll be cruising this baby through the mountains this summer—hopefully, long stretche...
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Manage Your Hunger–Not Your Calories 💡
Three articles to help you see the effects of food and food products.Â
I abandoned restrictive eating practices seventeen years ago, which includes...
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Seventeen years ago, I was at my heaviest. This came after twenty-plus years of weight cycling through diets and strenuous exercise. Each time, my weight climbed back up with a little extra....
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The through-line of my life is food. It's not fitness or losing weight.
Specifically, it's the pleasure and importance of food without compromising your health.
People often miss that becaus...
One of the worst effects of weight cycling (dieting to lose, living to gain) is that it creates deep anxiety around the essential functions of living: being hungry, selecting food, and enjoying mealtime.Â
You know, life.
Member Kathleen wrote beautifully about the effects of a lifetime of turni...
Of note: this information is for people who are ~if possible~ trying to balance alcohol with weight loss. It's not intended to address addiction and will be useless on that front.
Let's get into it.Â
In this issue:
Why an operating system is more effective than rules (or apps).
The power of de...
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Some great reads while you observe yourself with alcohol 🍷
Last week, I published part one (of two) on alcohol with some questions to spark curiosity about yourself. This examination is a f...
Of note: this information is for people who are trying to balance alcohol with weight loss. It's not intended to address addiction and will be useless on that front.
Let's get into it
In this issue:
The problem(s) alcohol brings to healthy weight living.
My experience
Three questions to ask yo...
I hated dieting. That part, you probably know.
But why? It wasn't that I was unwilling to eat differently or even somewhat less. It was the labor diets required (and the attendant joylessness).Â
What's interesting about modern dieting (and the truth is, all diets are modern because the under...
Reducing sugar is necessary for sustained weight loss. It was the first thing I tackled sixteen years ago and remains a cornerstone of my no-diet approach.
I don't care what anyone tells you; sugar is a problem for weight. Decades of calorie counting give the impression that you can skirt the e...
