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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor

 

You have the right to eat, because you are a human being.

You also need to eat, because you are a human being. There is no person out there, fat or thin, who can live a healthy, functional life without eating a reasonable amount of food.

There is a misconception that somehow being fat beyond a certain arbitrary line drawn in imaginary BMI sand means you have the superhuman ability, and the moral obligation, to live without food. Which is total bullshit.

Quick nutrition interlude: your body, every cell in your body but particularly your brain, runs on sugar. Glucose is the preferred day-to-day gasoline that makes you go. And, believe it or not, our body only has a short-term store (usually measured in hours) of glucose to draw on.

Which means? You need to eat. Regularly. You’re not going to be able to think clearly for very long without it, and you’re going to feel like ass, physically.

Michelle, aka The Fat Nutritionist, “How to eat, in a nutshell”

Go read the whole thing. *shoos*

(via drst)

The Fat Nutritionist was the first person I read who laid out the (in retrospect totally logical) argument that all this talk about how sugar or fat or carbs are “addicting” and all this talk about “cravings” etc. was just our culture’s bizarre interpretation of the messages people’s bodies send them when they need food.  

(via galesofnovember)

News Flash Folks: Fat people who stop eating when / before they’re full Do, in fact, exist. Conversely, there are also a lot of ‘normal weight’ people out there with totally disordered eating habits. Some of them screwing themselves up because a supposed expert told them ‘I know your body better than YOU do’. This is seen as logical and healthy.

(via Bilt2tumble)

I’ve had a few conversations - just normal conversations with friends or coworkers - where things like “addicted to food” had come up and I find it an utterly baffling and truly disturbing way for people to look at food.

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