Category: eating

  • Lesson two – Meals as love.

    If you have any sort of history of food restriction, whether from dieting, or medical stuff, or an eating disorder, or food scarcity of any kind; from financial reasons, or barriers to getting food, or the inability to prepare the food you’ve got – your body is, frankly, not going to trust you. Even after…

  • How to eat, in a nutshell – lesson one: Permission.

    French version of this post here, courtesy Stéphanie Potin-Grevrend. I spend a lot of time and energy trying to teach people to eat normally. It’s amazing what a difficult process it can be, and I blame a lot of that on the severely disordered culture we’re all swimming in. It can be a long, drawn-out…

  • Nutrition is a game we play.

    Before I completely freak you out with talk of food groups, let me say a couple of things about The Bottom Line when it comes to eating: The bottom line is that you provide yourself the opportunity to eat at regular times. The bottom line is that, at those times, you give yourself free reign…

  • Eating incompetence.

    I am not, by any means, a perfect eater. Or even a competent one, every day. I do tend to score high on the validated eating competence inventory, but I am far, far, faaaaar from perfect. In fact, I’m not sure perfection in eating even exists. Or that I’d want it to. I’d like to…

  • Surprising results from my totally unscientific survey.

    I recently asked a bunch of people what, if anything, they would most like to change about their relationship to food. As expected, since people vary, there was a wide range of responses, all of which were cogent and wonderful. I guess I had my suspicions about what issues would be most popular. I expected…