Comments on: The rules of nutrition.

By: Marcel Broodthaers, Ne diets pas que je ne l’ai pas dit – Le Perroquet, 1974 : Fitness Nutrition 365

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 00:52:03 +0000

[...] http://www.fatnutritionist.com/index.php/the-rules-of-nutrition/ [...]

By: Dear Health Care Provider « Raising My Boychick

Dear Health Care Provider « Raising My Boychick — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 08:21:14 +0000

[...] are full. It says to “Eat food. Stuff you like. As much as you want.” It acknowledges the first rule of nutrition (“Eat or die.”). It recognizes that there are more important things than optimal nutrition (no, really, there are), [...]

By: Fat Acceptance Greatest Hits « This and That

Fat Acceptance Greatest Hits « This and That — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 07:21:23 +0000

[...] The Rules Of Nutrition by The Fat [...]

By: Insert Obligatory First Post Here: These Things I Believe | Fat Girl Eating

Insert Obligatory First Post Here: These Things I Believe | Fat Girl Eating — Tue, 25 May 2010 06:21:08 +0000

[...] I do what the blog title promises and eat, but for now I just wanted to leave a link here about The Rules of Nutrition from the Fat Nutritionist: First rule of nutrition: eat or [...]

By: International No Diet Day | Interfacing

International No Diet Day | Interfacing — Tue, 25 May 2010 00:15:18 +0000

[...] the first rule of nutrition: eat, or die. There are no other rules. [...]

By: Paradigm shifts « Zaftig Zeitgeist

Paradigm shifts « Zaftig Zeitgeist — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 08:34:59 +0000

[...] guys wear white hats and win, and the bad guys wear black hats and lose. As The Fat Nutritionist puts it, This is not a2 + b2 = c2.It’s more like a2 + b2 = c probably, maybe, if x, y, and z are also [...]

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:46:40 +0000

I feel really, really bad for people who look at exercise as a punishment because they are missing out on something totally awesome. That’s the one thing I really, really dislike about Jillian Michaels’ approach to fitness: to her, working out is an unpleasant necessity and must, out of necessity, be miserable to be effective. It *isn’t true!* Exercise can be fun, it can be joyful, it can even be spiritual! You just have to find what you like to do. Don’t like running? Fine. Don’t do it. There are a million other alternatives out there, from swimming or biking to walking to my personal favorite: dancing!

I’m probably crazy, but I actually enjoy feeling my muscles burn with exertion. I celebrate every trickle of sweat down my forearms. It makes me feel alive. And if I don’t like the way an exercise makes me feel, guess what? I don’t do it. In fact, I refuse to take pilates because it bores the crap out of me, and I don’t care how effective it is or how long and lean my muscles will be. I guess my muscles aren’t gonna be lean and long, because I don’t like pilates.

Gack; I’m rambling. I just… I really wish everybody could feel the way I do about exercise.

Awesome website, by the way. I feel super-empowered. :) And you know, most of the people I really admire in the world (even physically) are pretty laid back about their eating. They just do what feels good.

By: Eat or die « Raising My Boychick

Eat or die « Raising My Boychick — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:42:59 +0000

[...] or die That, of course, is the first rule of nutrition. And there are no other [...]

By: Let us eat cake « Spilt Milk

Let us eat cake « Spilt Milk — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 04:15:09 +0000

[...] and we try to do them at our place. But at the end of the day, I know that as long as Bean obeys the first rule of nutrition – eat or die -*** she’ll be [...]

By: The great divorce of body and mind. | The Fat Nutritionist

The great divorce of body and mind. | The Fat Nutritionist — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:18:41 +0000

[...] fault deepened when I first encountered food rules. Whether they came from the USDA or my parents or the school lunch program, the message was the [...]

By: Michelle

Michelle — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:26:46 +0000

Thanks, teri. I’m glad you found it helpful. There’s really too much stress and anxiety around eating sometimes, you know? That can’t be good for us.

By: teri

teri — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 18:47:07 +0000

Michelle,
I just discovered this blog. Thank you so much for these “rules”. After I read it, I have to tell you – I felt an actual, palpable (sp?) sense of *relief* and freedom! It was like a huge boulder was lifted from my brain (or heart, chest, emotions). Like I can breathe, like I don’t have to worry about whether I have the “right” kind of foods on hand . . . don’t have to frantically run to the store if I’m out of carrots, or whatever . . . I have lived with “weight problems” since I was eight years old. I am now 55. I have always been hard on myself – my family has also been a constant critical voice. My father died at 62 of congestive heart failure, and that is also always hanging over my head, that I am doomed to an early death because of weight problems.

Anyway, I am so intrigued by these non-rules. Just feeling relaxed about food is such a strange new feeling . . . maybe if I was more relaxed, I wouldn’t binge or zone out . . . I am hoping so.

thank you again.

By: Random Items from My Day « Living ~400lbs

Random Items from My Day « Living ~400lbs — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 05:43:50 +0000

[...] than we realize.” Nice idea, but I’m not sure we need more rules – other than the big ones, of [...]

By: the “It its Dinner Time, this must be Dinner” award « Awards for Excellence in Parenting

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 04:34:24 +0000

[...] *The first rule: Eat or Die [...]

By: laura

laura — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:23:41 +0000

Holy crap, this actually made me cry! I think I’m going to read it about 18 more times, and then maybe again.

Thank you.

It’s really freaking hard to be body-positive when my body (not me, per se, because let me tell you that my ass right now? Looks AMAZING) is not happy with me. This is such a good reminder that I’m a grownup, that I’m not broken. Dude. Thank you. Again.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:14:46 +0000

Yeah, you know what, on second thought? It’s more like “non-existent” than razor-thin.

By: megaforte84

megaforte84 — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:57:52 +0000

In some cases, it’s not even ‘razor thin’.

I had classmates in high school say I was eating too little and was I sure I wasn’t anorexic… fifteen minutes after looking at me funny for just how many of the school french fries or pizza I was having for lunch.

I’m not at all sure that even at the lightest I’ve been since I reached adult height that I’d have been thin enough for the magazines.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:30:57 +0000

Isn’t it ridiculous how razor-thin the margin of “acceptability” is in our culture?

By: megaforte84

megaforte84 — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:16:22 +0000

Thanks so much for this.

I’m on the other end of the weight scale than most of the commenters here, but I still get the food judgments. Often either it’s too little and I must have body image issues, or it’s too much and I must have body image issues. And that’s not even going into what’s on the plate at the time.

And I noticed in college that there was a weight below which a woman was pretty much assumed anorexic or bulimic, and not far above it was the weight where it was assumed going on a diet would be a good thing.

This? Is a breath of fresh air.

By: pjnoir

pjnoir — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:55:49 +0000

I do agree that NO BODY ever got diabetes from eating too much candy or sweets. But we do differ in that the body has many system and glands that that have a time limit on them, growth and reproduction are but two. How the body handles carbs and responses with insulin is another, it is not a mere autoimmune response. The amount of HFCS and white flour carbs that an avg person eats before the age of 30 is far greater then our grandparents ever ate.
I do not live to eat anymore. I use to eat 18/7/365. It wasn’t uncommon to hit two McDonald’s on the way to work, then gobble a big meal & snacks during work and top it off with ice cream and potato chips when I got home late at night- all the time, every day. I did enjoy living to eat- it all tasted great and I wanted it. I always felt cheated at buffets. I could bearly walk out of the place and all I was thinking was I could have and should have had some more crab legs and mash potatoes.
Now I eat to live. I have repaired my metabolism over the last 18 months to where I no longer take any meds and eat pretty much the same stuff as the rest of my family. And as good as food was, it taste a lot better now. I eat less, spend less and still have a high rate of satiety.
When food is a reward, problems occur. There are better rewards for whatever needs a gold star than mindless eating. I except to be able to have a normal Thanksgiving with my family, something I couldn’t do for a while, even with meds.
Last point- if the American Diabetes Assoc ran the American Lung Assoc- we would all be smoking cigarettes. I have it all wrong.
It is worth the time to recalibrate one’s metabolism and health.

Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.