losing weight (AND OUR MINDS 🤪)

Although all women’s bodies are seen as public property, my slimness allows me to say ‘follow your appetite’ without someone hurling back at me: ‘Look where that got you.’

For two hundred thousand years, our body’s appetite and weight-control systems functioned well. They even worked during the US boom years from the 1940s through the 1970s, when food was just as abundant as it is today. And just like today, almost everyone had an automobile—we weren’t walking everywhere—and jogging and gym-going were relatively rare

Take a moment to consider any obstacles that may be keeping you from living in your natural weight range. How can you begin to remove them, embrace the size and shape handed down to you by your ancestors and live more healthfully and joyfully in your body? If you discover obstacles that feel overwhelming to tackle, please seek help from a weight-ne