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…

  • Online fat camp.

    *awkward mic screech, tapping* Ahem. This is kind of last-minute, but the long weekend really threw me off. For a long time, I’ve been doing individual sessions teaching people how to eat normally after giving up dieting (in addition to writing this blog, of course.) Doing individual sessions means that they are pretty expensive, and…

  • 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…