Your talk was wonderful, amazing, and inspiring. I hope the CIA students and everyone in attendance respected all that you shared. Keep spreading the anti-diet message, we need your voice loud & clear.
Several months ago, I listened to your podcast episode with Grace, where y'all discussed feelings about your bodies and whatnot. I've never considered myself all that deeply entrenched or influenced in diet culture until I listened to that episode (and some episodes of Maintenance Phase, after you talked about it as well). I mean, OF COURSE it's had an effect on me. I have been, you know, alive and taking in media over the past three and a half decades. But anyhow, listening to that episode made me realize how much work I had to do, and it's been so illuminating and liberating to sort of re-focus my ideas around weight and food and health. So thank you for that!
I've been a type one diabetic since I was 13. I'm 35 now, so I've lived with diabetes for longer than not. And I think that constant focus on food, and what it's going to do to my blood sugar, has done a lot more to my ideas around food than I ever gave it credit for. I LOVE food and everything about it (eating, cooking, learning about it), but I've realized over the past several months the ways I've taken in that toxicity about "good" foods and "bad" foods, particularly when it comes to carbohydrates and sugars and fats. I think I'm well on my way to sort of shedding those ideas, and realize that I should just eat what I'm feeling like I need (and want!) instead. I've got a doctor's appointment in about a month, and I'm already planning on having the weight discussion and how I'd like to avoid putting too much emphasis on a specific number. I love my doctor and am so grateful for him and the team there, but that conversation needs to be had.
Anyhow, all that to say: Appreciate you and Grace highlighting these things, both in this talk and in that frank (and lovely and just so great) podcast conversation however many months ago. The kindness and tenderness was so evident in that conversation, and it was such a joy to listen to! Take care!
Thank you so much for sharing this, Marcus. I am so glad this has all been liberating— that's so awesome to hear. Grace also has type 1 and watching how Grace navigates it, especially with an eating disorder history, has been really eye-opening about how challenging it can be to reject diet culture while also simultaneously keeping track of everything you eat. Wishing you all the best and just thanks so much for adding your perspective here and for your very kind words.
I’m a mom of 2 and an ED survivor who finds it VERY easy to slip back into old cycles. Very literally, your cookbook Small Victories brought me back to myself because it got me back in the kitchen, and it taught me food’s job is to taste good and feed your soul, first and foremost. Being a larger person in a fatphobic world is hard, even sometimes inside my own brain. I’m grateful there are people like you speaking out against it.
Laura, you're not alone!!! Thanks for always sharing so much of yourself. Means a lot to know many of us, myself included, aren't the only ones who have felt the same things. xo
Your talk was wonderful, amazing, and inspiring. I hope the CIA students and everyone in attendance respected all that you shared. Keep spreading the anti-diet message, we need your voice loud & clear.
Thank you so much, Jessica. This means so much to me + I appreciate your ongoing support.
Several months ago, I listened to your podcast episode with Grace, where y'all discussed feelings about your bodies and whatnot. I've never considered myself all that deeply entrenched or influenced in diet culture until I listened to that episode (and some episodes of Maintenance Phase, after you talked about it as well). I mean, OF COURSE it's had an effect on me. I have been, you know, alive and taking in media over the past three and a half decades. But anyhow, listening to that episode made me realize how much work I had to do, and it's been so illuminating and liberating to sort of re-focus my ideas around weight and food and health. So thank you for that!
I've been a type one diabetic since I was 13. I'm 35 now, so I've lived with diabetes for longer than not. And I think that constant focus on food, and what it's going to do to my blood sugar, has done a lot more to my ideas around food than I ever gave it credit for. I LOVE food and everything about it (eating, cooking, learning about it), but I've realized over the past several months the ways I've taken in that toxicity about "good" foods and "bad" foods, particularly when it comes to carbohydrates and sugars and fats. I think I'm well on my way to sort of shedding those ideas, and realize that I should just eat what I'm feeling like I need (and want!) instead. I've got a doctor's appointment in about a month, and I'm already planning on having the weight discussion and how I'd like to avoid putting too much emphasis on a specific number. I love my doctor and am so grateful for him and the team there, but that conversation needs to be had.
Anyhow, all that to say: Appreciate you and Grace highlighting these things, both in this talk and in that frank (and lovely and just so great) podcast conversation however many months ago. The kindness and tenderness was so evident in that conversation, and it was such a joy to listen to! Take care!
Thank you so much for sharing this, Marcus. I am so glad this has all been liberating— that's so awesome to hear. Grace also has type 1 and watching how Grace navigates it, especially with an eating disorder history, has been really eye-opening about how challenging it can be to reject diet culture while also simultaneously keeping track of everything you eat. Wishing you all the best and just thanks so much for adding your perspective here and for your very kind words.
I’m a mom of 2 and an ED survivor who finds it VERY easy to slip back into old cycles. Very literally, your cookbook Small Victories brought me back to myself because it got me back in the kitchen, and it taught me food’s job is to taste good and feed your soul, first and foremost. Being a larger person in a fatphobic world is hard, even sometimes inside my own brain. I’m grateful there are people like you speaking out against it.
Laura, you're not alone!!! Thanks for always sharing so much of yourself. Means a lot to know many of us, myself included, aren't the only ones who have felt the same things. xo