Author Archives: Michelle

Michelle

I truly believe all food is good food. Except when there's botulism.

Who are you when you eat kale chips?

By Michelle | Published: March 6, 2013

Recently, I made kale chips and I felt a little weird about it. I made them for a session with a client, where we ate kale chips together. I am such a curmudgeon sometimes about trying new things, and I’m grateful to my clients for pushing me out of my comfort zone. Last month it [...]

Posted in eating, Food and Recipes | 252 Responses

Fresh starts, clean slates, and you.

By Michelle | Published: January 2, 2013

French version of this post here, courtesy Stéphanie Potin-Grevrend. Happy new year. Like many of you, I’ve spent the last few weeks eating differently than I do most of the year. There were more cookies, more pastry, more mashed potatoes and stuffing, more candy, more cream, and more liquor than usual. There were probably fewer [...]

Posted in Diets, eating | 113 Responses

Stuff people assume I believe vs. stuff I actually believe.

By Michelle | Published: November 30, 2012

French version of this post here, courtesy Stéphanie Potin-Grevrend. This post has been sitting in drafts for several weeks, but I figured now was as good a time as any to actually publish it. 1) That the food industry is AWESOME. In one sense, industrialized food production is an amazing thing that allows an unprecedented [...]

Posted in eating, Unified Theory | 51 Responses

The inevitable holiday post.

By Michelle | Published: November 20, 2012

It’s true, Thanksgiving is a weirdly imperialist semi-genocidal sort of holiday, but hey, at least we can enjoy the tradition of getting together with family and eating a bunch of mashed potatoes! Or can we? If some people’s relatives had their way, the answer would be a resounding HAHA, SUCKER! Because certain people exist only [...]

Posted in eating | 86 Responses

Food addiction, natural rewards, and self-fulfilling prophecies.

By Michelle | Published: October 31, 2012

French version of this post here, courtesy Stéphanie Potin-Grevrend. Warning: in this post I disagree with certain ideas and express opinions based on my own thinking, experience, and education. Ready your smelling salts. In an earlier post, I wrote about why some people find food restriction comforting and reassuring. Today I want to talk about [...]

Posted in Diets, eating, Humane Nutrition | 185 Responses