Hey everyone – I edited the last post by adding new information and changing the ending.

This because I didn’t want to come across in a way I hadn’t intended with the first version.

You can read the revised blog entry again if you want.

I’m as leery as anyone of white women influencers peddling “thinspiration.”

In this blog I would like to giver common-sense information that readers can use to create a better life for themselves.

Let’s face it Americans are coming down with all sorts of health issues. Separating trustworthy claims from sensational ones is my goal. There are people hanging out shingles as experts to cash in on our ill health.

I’m going to talk in a coming blog entry about liking yourself at any size. Which is more to the point.

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.