Monthly Archives: June 2009

Are fat people unhealthy?

By Michelle | Published: June 18, 2009
There certainly seems to be a lot of evidence to support the conclusion that we are, or at least to show associations between high body weight and poor health. But I’m wondering, what’s really the most important question here? Whether fat people are unhealthy? Or why fat people might be unhealthy, if they are? I [...]
Posted in Definitions of Health, Fatness | 46 Comments

Outsiders and eccentrics.

By Michelle | Published: June 15, 2009
I spent the weekend with a bunch of people who are dissatisfied in various ways with how dietetics is practiced and taught. And I thought, this is a good bunch of people. We talked about healthism, and expectations of dietitians’ bodies, and feminist theory, and critical theory, and disability, racism, exclusion, food systems, agriculture, hunger, [...]
Posted in Random Shit | 17 Comments

Monica’s got a grip on more than her racket.

By Michelle | Published: June 13, 2009
A few weeks ago, the good people at Avery saw fit to send me a copy of Monica Seles’ new book, Getting a Grip: On My Body, My Mind, My Self. And what kind of asshole would I have to be to turn down free books? As I read through it, I dog-eared each page [...]
Posted in Random Shit | 8 Comments

Getting reacquainted.

By Michelle | Published: June 11, 2009
For the past week, I’ve been dealing with a semi-stressful situation that kind of knocked me off my foundation a bit and made me wonder “Oh god, am I really cut out for this whole writing/website/openly-being-who-I-am thing??” And I didn’t write anything, because, naturally, that’s what you do when you’re gripped with an irrational fear [...]
Posted in Liking Yourself, Random Shit, eating | 10 Comments

Dear Fat Nutritionist – Am I making my kid fat?

By Michelle | Published: June 5, 2009
Well HELLO everyone. It appears you’ve found me — even though I haven’t “officially” launched this site yet (meaning, I have been too afraid to actually mention it by name on my old blog.) But some of the posts I stuck in the archives appeared on the Fatosphere feed. And more will soon, as I [...]
Posted in Dear Fat Nutritionist | Tagged , , , | 20 Comments

How procrastinating is sort of like dieting. Or something.

By Michelle | Published: June 3, 2009
I woke up this morning feeling slightly terrified. Yes, I believe a person can be slightly terrified, though it might be more elegantly expressed as a feeling of dread, or impending doom. It’s quiet; it’s in the background — but it’s definitely there. It’s omnipresent. Since I believe in kindness and compassion, for other people, [...]
Posted in Liking Yourself, Random Shit, eating | 21 Comments

What’s all this, then?

By Michelle | Published: June 1, 2009
It’s my blog about normal eating. You’re reading it. So, I’m working on this thing I like to call my Unified Theory of Kicking Ass. What that means is, I’m reading and learning stuff about normal eating and nutrition and how people change their behaviour. I have a pretty decent understanding of this stuff already, [...]
Posted in Diets, Fatness, Liking Yourself, Moving, Random Shit, Unified Theory, eating | 9 Comments