Author: Michelle
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Food and exercise are not matter and anti-matter.
French version of this post here, courtesy Stéphanie Potin-Grevrend. How often do you hear someone say they need to “work off breakfast,” or that they spoiled their workout by eating some calorific food afterward? I hear it quite a bit, and it always bothers me. Let me count the ways. First of all, reducing food…
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From grazing to structure.
The other day, a client asked me how one makes the transition from grazing to regular meals. The first problem being that it sounds very scary. I agree. It’s scary because, if you have any history of hunger, whether due to not having enough money to buy food, or what I like to call “self-induced…
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The Death Threat: It’s not about health.
Stacy Bias posted an amazing sample of fat hatred today, and it reminded me of something I’ve been meaning to talk about for a while. Namely, The Death Threat. Ragen has written about The Vague Future Health Threat before, and The Death Threat is its close cousin. The Vague Future Health Threat and The Death…
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A little 101 – I get to exist.
It’s come to my attention that not everyone in the world takes for granted many of the things I’ve come to accept as truth about health and weight. I forget that sometimes. And when I am reminded, it is not always in the kindest terms. Usually, it’s in terms like, “But your body is not…
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Actual Recipes from My Kitchen
Well, we’ve finally made it to the “Actual Food” part of this incredibly lengthy series. I seem to be a firmly intermediate cook, which is a surprisingly embattled position to occupy in a very food-judgey culture. I am going to kindly ask those of you who are more advanced than I am to please suspend…