I’m a tiny person with a big mouth. I’ve always been a feminist. What surprises me today is the alacrity with which I’m speaking out about real issues.

I think it’s a myth that a healthy woman can have disordered eating. Unless you have anorexia or bulimia I don’t think it’s possible that your eating is disordered.

Having a so-called expert or another person judge us can be shame inducing. Not only can a 200-pound woman feel poorly. We girls of any size can feel insecure.

I had not intended to lose weight. It’s just how it is. I want everyone to feel good at any size. Which is why the policing of how and what women eat should end.

I weigh 103 pounds because I lift weights and eat healthful food 90 percent of the time. I lost 20 pounds at the height of Covid because I lifted weights in my home gym and did not buy “snacks” to eat while indoors. Instead I bought organic CSA boxes of produce to make recipes with.

More to the point is that I follow the advice in the book I reviewed here How to Be Well by Dr. Frank Lipman, MD– a functional medicine doctor who is a trustworthy expert.

Big Food will sell you the cheeseburgers and Big Pharma will tell you that if you take a cholesterol pill, it will be OK to keep eating cheeseburgers.

One female nutritionist in a print advertisement recommended using Splenda years ago. How could a supposed diet expert accept funding to promote an artificial sweetener? Instead of needing to use an artificial sweetener simply cut out using sugar to begin with.

This is why what a so-called expert claims is disordered eating should be questioned. Policing how and what women eat is only going to shame us. Nobody accuses a man of having disordered eating when he mouths down a Porterhouse steak.

The shaming of women for our eating habits will have the opposite effect: Turn us away from eating dark leafy greens which you are supposed to eat. Who’s kidding who about what constitutes disordered eating.

Coca-Cola hired academic researchers at a college to promote the health benefits of Coca-Cola. You can see where I’m going with this line of thinking.

In the 1990s SYMS clothing store ran this commercial on TV in New York City touting: “An educated consumer is our best customer.”

We need to educate ourselves and seek out the truth. I’m not an influencer peddling a product. I take NO money from advertisements on my blogs or from a drug company or anyone else.