• About that video.

    French version of this post here, courtesy Stéphanie Potin-Grevrend. Yesterday, the video of Jennifer Livingston (and here’s a transcript of the video), a fat news anchor responding to an email about how fat and unhealthy she was, went viral. I figured I should probably talk about it, rather than just making oblique references to it.…

  • Introductions.

    Today has been a strange day. For instance, this happened. That link is to a story about a fat news anchor who called out the writer of a very concern-trolling email about what a bad example she was setting for THE CHILDREN by publicly being a fat person with a job. Watch the video if…

  • Fat people and binge eating.

    French version of this post here, courtesy Stéphanie Potin-Grevrend. Lately, I’ve had a couple of run-ins with the assumption that all fat people binge eat. I was surprised to find that it really hurt my feelings, and I’ve been thinking a lot about why that is. I don’t think it’s purely because I want to…

  • 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…

  • 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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