August 24 - 30, 2018 As always, if you like what you read here, please support the original author by liking/sharing/following/up-voting/subscribing directly to their feed. Happy reading! Articles & Blogs BELVIQ – Hilarious if It Wasn’t Horrifying by Ragan Chastain “make no mistake, this drug is going to kill people. People who could have lived full, happy lives in the bodies that they have now are literally going to die trying to be thin while this company rakes in millions, even billions, in profits.” https://danceswithfat.wordpress.com/2014/09/17/belviq-hilarious-if-it-wasnt-horrifying/ The unbearable vulnerability of eating enough. by Michelle, The Fat Nutritionist “Don’t substitute a li

August 17 - 23, 2018 As always, if you like what you read here, please support the original author by liking/sharing/following/up-voting/subscribing directly to their feed. Happy reading! Articles & Blogs Eating Disorder Recovery: Aim to Overshoot​ by Tabitha Farrar “Overshoot is normal. Overshoot is optimal. Overshoot means you are recovering. Overshoot means you are exactly where your body needs you to be right now. Overshoot should be aimed for.” https://tabithafarrar.com/2015/11/eating-disorder-recovery-aim-overshoot-pre-ed-weight/ Mindful Eating (…don’t water it down to “just eat slow without distractions”) by Kylie Mitchell “Being mindful with food = being aware of something relating t

August 12 - 16, 2018 As always, if you like what you read here, please support the original author by liking/sharing/following/up-voting/subscribing directly to their feed. Happy reading! Articles and Blogs Can Television Destroy Diet Culture? by Sophie Gilbert “If Dietland is symbolic of larger body-positivity movements outside the show, Insatiable...is a timely reminder of how popular culture has always treated larger bodies” https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/08/dietland-insatiable-body-positivity-television/567116/ The benefits of banishing bad body talk by Evelyn Lewin “Every time you read or see something that makes you feel bad about your body, remove the source an

August 5 - 11, 2018 As always, if you like what you read here, please support the original author by liking/sharing/following/up-voting/subscribing directly to their feed. Happy reading! Articles and Blogs The Weight of the Evidence by Harriet Brown “Reading the research on obesity treatments sometimes feels like getting stuck in an M.C. Escher illustration, where walls turn into ceilings and water flows upward.” http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2015/03/diets_do_not_work_the_thin_evidence_that_losing_weight_makes_you_healthier.html Posting Naked Pictures on the Internet Helps Me Accept My Body for What It Is: My Body by Sofia Barrett-Ibarria “Once I started p

July 29 - August 4, 2018 As always, if you like what you read here, please support the original author by liking/sharing/following/up-voting/subscribing directly to their feed. Happy reading! Articles and Blogs I Help Manage My Chronic Illness With My Diet, but Don't You Dare Call It 'Clean Eating' by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha “I get wanting to have less pain and more energy. But I don't want to be saved from my body, and, like many sick and disabled people, I'm focused less on an idea of waiting for a cure and more on wanting to live well in the body I have.” https://www.self.com/story/dont-call-it-clean-eating Self-Compassion Lessons: Why teens, more than ever, need to learn to be k