Isn’t it amazing how pervsive the toxicity is? I can remember being a kid & thinking when we went out to eat that I was lucky I was a kid, because as soon as I was an adult woman I would have to eat salad. Because my mom, aunts & grandma only ever ordered salads when we ate out. While complaining loudly about how much…

Yeah, but for a lot of people, the act of tracking itself becomes all consuming, in that it consumes a lot of mental energy. You find yourself ALWAYS thinking about food.

If it’s a tool that works for you, don’t worry about my opinion :) Knowing yourself well enough to know what tools you need is half the battle, so you’re ahead there.

Oh yeah for sure. I’ve spoken about it before but i work with a mostly female company and the body shaming is daily and ‘subtle’. Women here (of all ages and sizes) talk about how they were ‘bad’ and ate something they ‘shouldn’t’ as well as congratulating each other on ‘being good’ when they go to the gym. The…

It’s as horrible as it sounds, really mentally pervasive. Formative childhood memory: my dad is funny but pretty thick re: ladies, and he hated how much my mom stressed out about it when we were little kids, so he thought he would be HELPFUL by putting a pig magnet on the fridge that oinked whenever you opened it. “So…

Kellyyyyyyy these ads are punching me in the gut.

I mean, sure, maybe if this were a blog about, say, engineering or cheese. But this is a blog that covers culture and entertainment and has covered Grimes at least a dozen times before. It’s expected that you might know who she is or that you possess the widely held ability to Google things unfamiliar to you. Or you…