Special feature: A Body Type Q&A
Ask me anything.
I’m hard at work these days on planning and prepping for the live storytelling show I’m producing [THE BODY SHOW, tickets on sale June 21!] which is only a little over a month away! Eeek! In the meantime, I’m pipelining posts of all kinds: An interview I did with Jayne Mattingly of Recovery Love and Care; an essay about body dysmorphia that’s difficult for me to write but damn it, I’m trying; and sometime soon I’ll post a link to my first podcast appearance, on Katelyn Parsons’ “Body Truth” podcast (what a joy it was to speak with her! Such a great interviewer).
Lots of exciting things happening ‘round these parts. While that’s all brewing, I wanted to try a Q&A post, just to see if it’s fun for you and for me, or if anyone even participates. There are a few hundred of you here now, yay, so I’d love to hear from you.
I write in Body Type about what binge eating feels like; why exercise is so helpful for my brain; beauty and vanity; what it’s like to live as a fat person and then not a fat person and how complicated and weird that is; why the food we eat can mess with our heads; and much more. Ask more about any of that. Ask whatever your heart desires.
Know that I’m not a personal trainer (I’m a group fitness instructor, they’re different), or a medical professional. I have no certification in anything beyond group fitness and fitness nutrition. I’m just a person who has struggled with binge eating disorder and found ways to heal from it; I’ve changed my entire physical body through weight lifting; I cook pretty much all my own food and love to figure out what I like to eat; and I read a lot about “body stuff” in general. I also still struggle with all manner of bodily anxieties, so you can ask me about that, too. Or, if you’re a writer, ask me about writing!
I’d love to point you to any and all resources that have been helpful for me, and all the tips and tricks I’ve learned—ask me about getting into the gym for the first time, or books you can read that can help you feel less alone if you struggle with disordered eating, or where all the non-bullshit nutrition information is, and I’ll tell you what’s worked for me and what I think, with the neon-flashing-sign caveat that this is what I think and what has clicked in my life, and all my responses do is give you a peek into things you could take or leave. My way is not the way.
You can ask me a fully anonymous question here. I’ll answer in future posts.
Thanks so much for being here and for supporting me.