Here’s something that upsets me.
I can’t hold it in anymore. I don’t want to be a message board for blog hatred but Healthy Food Blogging has really been getting under my skin lately. Or stuck in my craw. Or some such colloquialism. And I don’t mean you Arielle. Not much anyway, because your writing is tremendously funny, but seriously…this shit about blogging every single thing young women with access to laptops put in their mouths? It’s wrong. It’s harmful. It’s OBSESSIVE.
And I am totally guilty of reading these blogs every single goddamn day. That’s right. I am admitting I used to be a regular commenter on Kath Eats but I just can’t participate in a practice which purports to help “people” (women in their early twenties with borderline eating disorders) make healthy choices in their daily eating habits but in reality is taking what is already an obsessive pastime for modern girls to a nuclear level.
I mean, I can totally get behind teaching Americans about nutrition and portion size, etc and sometimes I waffle (get it? WAFFLE) and think, “Well, Kath and Jenna and Whoeverelse really are showing people a realistic way to eat three meals a day with snacks and stay at a healthy weight” and then my brain kicks in and I’m all, “WTF? What is wrong with America? Isn’t this another way to keep women in a tiny little box of conformity and unhappiness? Isn’t there enough pressure on girls to be perfect? Do we really need this? A blog telling us exactly what and how to eat all the time?”
I’d really like to know what your thoughts are on this. Mine are a bit muddled but my gut feeling (get it? GUT?) is that this is the opposite of healthy. It’s orthorexia. Its an obsession with never putting anything in your mouth that isn’t nutrional GOLD. It’s women living a deprived, bare, wasp-y existence in an effort to exert control over every part of their lives. It’s like living inside Real Simple magazine. (But not Domino because I would love to live inside of Domino magazine.)
It freaks me the frak out.
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I try to eat healthy because then I feel better in general. And there’s something to be said for smaller portions: They leave more room in there for booze. But maybe I’m not the type of person you’re talking about.
Charley, I just SAID I’m all for that.
You read it again.
Off topic? What if an alcoholic took pictures of every drink they drank throughout the day and posted on a drinking blog! Oh man! Ha!
9 A.M. (picture of Jim Beam) Took 4 slugs of this before jumping in shower.
10 A.M. (picture of two empty beers) Decided to take it down a notch after shower.
etc.
But seriously - I dunno. I think food issues and girls is something I can’t touch. I think girls should eat what they like to eat. And boys too.
And dogs, too!
Oops, I guess that part didn’t stick when I read it the first time. Probably because my mind was focused on digesting my abnormally large breakfast: three blueberries and a quarter cup of reduced fat water.
And a piece of gum, Charley. Make sure you write about the gum.
I’ve never commented on here (I don’t think), but thank you. You said whats been building up inside me for a while now.
I started reading bunches of those blogs at work…mostly out of boredom. I think I found one while searching for a recipe back in January, and it was like a run away train. And for the past few weeks…it’s started to creep me the fuck out. I was just about to start deleting some from my google reader when this post magically popped up.
On the plus side, I found your blog through Kath’s, so something constructive has come out of it!
I’m torn. I think it’s another of those things that could be a good practice for the right people, the ones who really do have issues with their weight that affects their health and that might benefit from having a log of their food intake through the course of the day.
But…
Some people can take it a little too far, obsessively cataloging everything that goes into their mouths and worrying that they’ll instantly put on 20 pounds if they forget to log it. Would it kill you if you ate a bite of Chunky Monkey out of the pint and didn’t log it, even though it made you feel warm and fuzzy and made the horrors of your day melt away as it transported you to a happy summer childhood moments? Nope. Probably would improve your quality of life more than saving the 20 calories.
Ok, that comment is grammatically FUBAR, but I think you get the idea.
I think these ladies just love food and love sharing about what they eat. I don’t notice any attempt at dieting and trying to fit into a smaller size or conforming to what we think the female body should look like. Perhaps I just don’t notice it. From what I get out of it, their main focus is to share with others how it’s ok to eat as long as it’s done healthily.
Now what I don’t like about these daily/hourly food blogs is that they all eat the same stuff. I visit them to get new ideas of what I can make but it’s all the same. Same same same. I think a food blog should be more about experimenting with different recipes and not just about every single peanut that gets consumed.
Perhaps I just don’t notice it.
Yes, I accidentally said that twice.
Farts.
You honestly don’t think there’s something inherently wrong with young women taking pictures of their “correct” food choices in order to get approval from the internet?
Because that’s how I see it.
And I eat healthy ALL THE TIME. Taco Bell notwithstanding. Those are drunk choices.
I also found your blog through comments on Kath’s. I have to admit that when I really think about, its pretty creepy that I spend the time I do looking at what other girls are eating everyday. I also agree that there are certainly some people who take them much too seriously, trying to do exactly what these girls do, and eat what/how they eat. I don’t think its necessarily the authors of the blogs intention to “keep women in a tiny little box of conformity and unhappiness” however I do think that some people reading them are already there and trying to emulate these bloggers is perpetuating the problem.
Overall, I really enjoy reading the food blogs, and have gotten some great new ideas, and tried foods that I never would have come near before, but I definitely see where it can become an obsessive habit, not only to read them constantly, but to try to conform to the standards they set. As long as I can still drink a bottle of wine on a Friday night (tonight!) and not feel too guilty that “Kath wouldn’t have done this,” I think I’m alright!
I think I agree with you Becky.
But I also think Kath is keeping herself in a tiny little box of conformity.
She just doesn’t know it.
I have to say I agree with you Kiala.. pretty much completely.. except now I need some kind of support group to help me STOPSTOPSTOP reading them!!!!!!! (except Arielle’s of course, because I also love her blog)
I really cannot agree more with this blog post. I too am an avid reader, and I too think it is borderline disordered eating. My nutritionist agrees. Intuitive eating is eating well, knowing when to stop, and not feeling the guilt of having to justify your every choice.
Umm… I’m kind of scared to comment because I have one of these food blogs you’re referring to, but I have to admit I’ve thought the same thing about food blogging before, even while writing my own… I started my blog mainly because just writing down what I ate didn’t work for me, and I also wanted to track what kept me going better through workouts since I’m often training for races. Also, there’s been plenty of times where I go out and get trashed, eat cookies, ice cream, and fried things (like twinkies and snickers and one time Long John Silvers, but that’s a mistake I’ll never make again) but I still blog about all this as well because I believe being healthy is about having a balance of the good and the not-so-good, and I like to show others that they don’t have to be obsessive and perfect to lose weight or just be healthy. I’ve lost 30 pounds and I’ve had fun along the way, and now I also have a great resource to look back on for workout and food ideas (because I’ve really killed to many brain cells from drinking and all those other fun but “not good for you” things I did growing up and I can’t for the life of me remember what I do or new things I try from week to week).
Sorry, long comment, and all about myself so far… but I can see your point to where this can be obsessive and an unhealthy influence on people, but I don’t think all food blogs are that way… I sure hope mine isn’t!!
Good point Chandra. Thank you for commenting.
Officially delurking to thank you for this post. I got obsessed with reading those damn things, especially the comments. Has anyone noticed how the people that comment are like little kids hoping to receive Kath or whoever else’s praise for fitting into this tiny box of conformity? (which you hit the nail on the head–it’s exactly that)
Thankfully I stumbled across smart and entertaining blogs that this instead. And thankfully, I can go drink my many cocktails this evening and later enjoy my burrito supreme with no fear of judgement!
Yes.
I’ve never even heard of this. I’ve never read a blog like that before. The only food blogs I’ve read are Confessions of a Restaurant Whore (Though since she had a baby she’s lagged) and vegan lunch box mainly because I love the whole lunchbox things.
I’m not sure what to think about it. It seems a little weird. I dont’ really get it? Who cares? The food blogs i’ve always read have to do with interesting recipes people cook, or different types of foods, or stuff like that. Not really about this is what I ate for breakfast, this is what I ate for lunch. If I take a picture of my food, it’s because it looks GOOD. And you want to eat it too. Oh yes you doo. We just had a smoothies for snacks in the office. They were GOOOD.
I hate those fucking blogs. HATE THEM. And I do write food articles — there’s a new one by me on Culinate today! Those blogs make me feel violent. Please stop it women. Please, please stop.
I… I’m so torn on this one. On the one hand, there are a couple of food blogs that make me feel like I should be ashamed of myself for not evaluating How I Feel About every cookie I eat, or polling everyone I know to determine if I’m hungry enough to eat a snack. Or because my hair is not perfect and my shirts are always wrinkled and I don’t get up before dawn and go running seven days a week. I feel really comfortable with my life and my health-related habits, but even so, I’ve had to stop reading these because they made me anxious and fed into my lingering body image issues.
On the other hand, I am a young woman and I do blog some of my meals, and it’s honestly never occurred to me that I could be doing it in order to seek approval from the internet. Exerting control in certain areas of my life does play into it, though in my particular case it’s much more about managing chronic pain than managing my weight. I don’t feel deprived or bare or even particularly WASP-y. Maybe I would if I photographed every piece of food that passed through my lips, but even then, I doubt it. I also read lots of food blogs that I find charming and fun and that give me ideas for interesting meals.
Basically, I can’t make a decision and I need the denizens of your internet to help me decide how I feel.
No, that’s a joke.
We all have our different reasons for blogging what we blog, and hopefully there are plenty of young women out there who are smart enough to maintain a healthy attitude about what they eat. AND what they read.
Wow, I just spent a large number of precious vacation minutes composing a blog comment detailing how I feel about food blogs. I think I need a nap now.
I guess the distinction is food blogs that are about food versus food blogs that claim to be about food but are really about keeping track of what you eat publicly so that you can shame yourself and others into eating a certain way, even if you don’t really enjoy it?
That whole “I had two jelly beans and 3 oz of Kashi crackers” things really freaks me out. Especially the measurements. Who measures their food? I don’t get it. Its weird and unnatural, not to mention boring. I do like food writing though and blogs where people post their delicious recipes.
I think when you stop celebrating food and how it can be really great for you and feed your body, as well as your soul, and start breaking it down into numbers, weights, calories and pounds gained it becomes something more dangerous. And when other women (young women) start to obsess over these blogs and read them every day, these food logs begin to wander into the realm of irresponsibility. If you want to have a diet log for your personal use, thats cool. Keep it to yourself. Putting it out into the public domain reminds me of those pro-anorexia sites where young women gather to discuss ‘dieting’ tips.
I’ve never read a food blog before. I follow the link, and because I haven’t had lunch yet I just look at the pictures (too hungry to read!)
That stuff looks so good! Can I order it from the Internets?
There is nothing “borderline” about the eating disorders displayed on those blogs.
Girls are supposed to be thin, as this helps them attract men. You don’t understand that, because you’re already thin and pretty, but for us bigger gals, we need all the help we can get. Try to show some understanding.
Say that part about me being thin and pretty again.
Oh…maybe you were addressing Sue.
Either way.
aristotle said that every virtue is a balance point between a deficiency and an excess of a trait.
it’s no surprise that temperance is the name of the game.
i think what’s fired you up, kiala, is that the actions of the worst of the “food counting” bloggers seems to ultimately result in a REDUCTION in their freedom, not an expansion. the “boxing in” hypothesis.
if it helps you to keep track of things by blogging about them, then that will ultimately allow you to grow and develop.
BUT it if instead results in yet another obsessive compulsion then you might as well just stick with biting your nails and twisting your hair.
i’m not really surprised at how disfunctional america is.. i mean, we have the worst overall health, and we’re the most obsessed about it!
dYsfunctional, goddamnit
i don’t know. i hadn’t really seen these sorts of blogs before, and so after i went to check out kath eats, and i read a bunch of posts and i read her about page and i saw that she’s en route to getting her RD, it reaffirmed something i already knew. people who go to school to become RDs usually have some kind of food obsession/compulsion/full-blown eating disorder. i know this because i majored in dietetics in college and i was surrounded by obsessed, too-skinny women. and i was obsessed with becoming too skinny and it devastated me that i wasn’t. it was terrible. after i graduated, and i was a diet tech for a while… i realized… i really don’t want to do this. i mean, look, you HAVE to eat or you die. it’s a daily thing for people. and my WHOLE LIFE was food, you know? people expect you to be thin and perfect if you’re an RD. plus, i hated working in the fucking BASEMENT of a hospital, where the entire diet staff got no respect from the medical staff and where i had to help make ginormous VATS of chili. so gross.
it took me a very long time to get over myself and get over my weight and realize that i’m never going to be perfect and that’s gotta be okay. i went through two years of therapy for my eating disorder, so i can see both sides of it. i know the obsession, and i also know life is better on this side of sane. (the side where you’re actually sane, just to clarify.) if i was still my college self, i so would have been one of these bloggers. but blogs weren’t around back then.
i’m so sad about this. but not surprised. not surprised at all.
I am delurking myself for this fabulous discussion.
1St i must say: Your blog is great and i enjoy reading it immensley.
2nd: I have over the last few months become addicted to food blogs and have actually never thought of it as creepy until someone said it out loud here. I am reading what these random people eat for every meal and snack per day? WTF? I am torn on if it is healthy or not. Weighing and measuring food plays a huge part into many peoples lives because they are trying to get away from a disorder right? Its the first thing DR’s do to help people stop over eating and emotional eating. Its a way to take accountability for your actions. I try my damdest to put good things into my body as often as i can, but shit yes we hit up the breakfast buffet (oh yea) at 2 am before we “walk” (thats exercising) our happy asses home from the bar. But for a lot of people, the occasional breakfast buffet indulgence or the like is not just occasional. They need the structure of knowing portion sizes etc. Whoever said that we should celebrate food up there, is so right. Enjoy it, eat drink and be merry! However i dont think it is that easy for a huge number of us, and i dont think that broadcasting your eating habits is neccesarily proof that you have a disorder, but it is demonstrating you need some sort of control over it. (i am obvisouly just rambling here, excuse me) But for me the reader out there… does that make me borderline disorder(ed). Sorry.. for any poor spelling. Have a good weekend.
I ate a burrito at lunch!
Health:
(Vonnegut smoked unfiltered Pall Mall cigarettes, which he claimed is a “classy way to commit suicide.”) I’m with Kurt on this one except I only smoke jazz cigarettes. I don’t take life too seriously b/c I know I won’t make it out alive.
This is kind of creepy because I was reading Kath’s blog today and I wondered, “what happened to Kiala? her comments were hilarious.” so i came here and what kismet - you are writing about food blogs!
So I think I might have the answer. And it’s in your post. Skip to the line “twenty-somethings.” Sorry for anyone here in their 20’s but I think it’s about having “summers off” and being in school and not having kids or 50 plus hour week jobs/careers or mortgages that affords people the luxury of being able to plan out and prepare and measure every ounce of food they eat. I know that’s a generalization, but I think that generally as you get older, life gets in the way of being able to plan out, well, life, and you have to do the best you can do, and not beat yourself up when your best means 12 ounces of wine and not 3. What’s funny is that when I was in my early twenties I ate whatever I damn felt like eating (which I admit wasn’t terrible according to normal America standards but still, I ate plenty of sour patch kids) and ate out with my friends all the time, and I was happy and thin.
Today, I ate a turkey sandwich on wheat with avocado. And tortilla chips with salsa. I didn’t count but I think I ate about 25 chips. But I was typing emails and working and lost track of my chip consumption.
I’m so hungry right now.
I’m going yarn shopping.
No, really.
I’m so hungry I just left a stupid comment. Food is better. Won’t be photographing it though.
Kaila…I couldn’t agree with you more.
One question for you though- why do you keep going back for more?
BTW, Arielle’s blog is pretty darn cool. I might just start reading new food blogs. Like hers.
I’m another delurker. I have read those blogs too, and from the comments, you can practically witness people adopting new food worries that they surely don’t deserve. It’s like you’re Harry Potter and those food bloggers are Voldemorts.
Kath’s blog is like a car wreck I can’t turn away from. I just keep looking to see what will happen next! So intense!
PS I found your blog through hers.
Echoing almost everyone else’s comments, I could not agree with you more! It seems a lot of the bloggers in this world are also young women still in high school! Their obsessive tendencies over picturing and documenting every single bite of food does not seem healthy in the slightest. What happens when they are unable to measure and calculate their food intakes for a period of time? Why do they let food control their entire lives? I struggled with eating issues for the last five years, but I’ve almost completely figured everything out. I think their anal retentiveness about food is definitely an eating disorder that needs addressing.
Echoing almost everyone else’s comments, I could not agree with you more! It seems a lot of the bloggers in this world are also young women still in high school! Their obsessive tendencies over picturing and documenting every single bite of food does not seem healthy in the slightest. What happens when they are unable to measure and calculate their food intakes for a period of time? Why do they let food control their entire lives? I struggled with eating issues for the last five years, but I’ve almost completely figured everything out. I think their anal retentiveness about food is definitely an eating disorder that needs addressing.
Oops…sorry about the repeat comment.
I also don’t like when I see them blogging about caving in and eating late night “unhealthy” food and feeling weak and that they’ll be better next time. Or when they eat something they wouldn’t normally eat and they provide all these explanations and justifications for it.
I wonder if food blogs are the easiest to criticize out there. I mean, if someone has a political blog, and you care nothing about politics, it’s easy to take the “who the fuck cares” attitude and never visit.
But food is so important to everyone’s lives and we all have such different approaches to our diets, and being the fleshy-robots-with-some-sort-of-free-will that we are, it’s easy for a lot of people to develop mild guilt, depression, and resentment towards our own eating habits (and others’).
When people ask me about our blog, I usually describe it as “showing people how to eat and cook really delicious food that still manages to be healthy.” Frankly, I feel like we’re pretty good cooks, and you can’t argue that we don’t have healthy bodies.
We’re also very happy with our lifestyles - it’s fulfilling to be in tip-top shape, not a burden. And it feels great. We don’t avoid any food, we eat sweets, we drink (oh hell yeah we drink), we indulge. And sometimes we over-indulge. Oh well, we’d rather have it that way than feel like our lives are restricted.
I don’t read a lot of blogs, but from what I’ve seen, food bloggers are more personally attacked than others. If you disagree with some movie critic, you might leave a comment calling him an idiot, but it’s obvious you’re only against his opinion and not his entire lifestyle. And as mentioned above, you’ll probably eventually say “I don’t care” and stop visiting.
Why is it so hard to take the same attitude with food blogs? Again, the only reason I can think of is how central food is to everyone’s lives. It’s almost a defining personality trait, whether it’s eating whole foods, professing your love of chocolate, or proclaiming with pride your drunken affection for Taco Bell. It says a lot about who you are.
If you’re visiting a food blog that doesn’t jive with your personality, you should probably stop. But don’t be so quick to judge someone as having a thorough eating disorder because their diet is different from yours. We don’t think less of people who don’t eat like us, and all we ask for is the same respect.
Kiala, you’re thin and pretty. No–gorgeous! And your blog is way more interesting than the obsessed food portioning diaries. But I like it when you sometimes write about Taco Bell and Whole Foods, and margaritas. And Dane going vegan.
And I’m sorry, but I have to disagree with the above commenter and say that I’m fairly certain that he would judge my diet if he knew what I ate. If he thinks food is the defining personality trait, then he is most certainly judging–the same way we all do. There’s an implicit judgment in his entire blog. That’s what makes it interesting…but, Matt, don’t try to take the high ground.
I wasn’t going to comment, but I have to, I’m sorry. I don’t think anyone with a normal outlook on food and eating would call anything that has ever been shown on Kath’s blog overindulgent. Nor would I say measuring how many ounces of wine you drink calls for a “oh hell yeah we drink.” I’m not trying to be argumentative, but this is where I think the problem lies - Kath (and apparently Matt) truly believes that she is overindulging when she has seven ounces of wine instead of four, or a cup of ice cream instead of half a cup. Thus, many of her readers feel horrible about themselves if they have 12 ounces of wine (!) or a cup and half ice cream. Kath wouldn’t do that, and neither should they. Bottom line, it preys on the insecurities of women and girls, and builds up her own self-esteem in the process.
That said, there are a lot of food blogs that aren’t restrictive, or written by people who count every calorie. Chandra, who commented above, writes one, but I can think of many more examples off the top of my head. Kath’s obviously isn’t one of them, and shouldn’t be a representative of the group.
Matt - Do you want to know -why- exactly, people draw a parallel between Kath’s life and eating disorders?
Because her life (and yours also, to some extent) is based around food. It seems as though everything you do, and everything you think about, has some type of food involved. She wants to be a nutritionist so she learns about food in school. Fair enough. Add to this her constant reading of recipes, fitness magazines, and food blogs…and now you’re getting a little extreme. And THEN add the movies you make for the blog, the community garden you guys are a part of for fresh produce, the food contests you two hold, the checking up on the restaurants you’re going to before you actually go, the pictures of the groceries you guys buy, the posting food entries when you’re on vacation, the meeting of other “foodies” to talk about food, the cutting out of coffee and sweetner and almost everything else that’s “not healthy”, the pictures of small sips of beer (god forbid you shouldn’t be accountable!), the detailed reports on how much she over-indulged or how hungry she was or how rich the dessert was, and the backyard garden you’ve planted, the recipe book she’s adding to, the planning out of meals, and for awhile there, the weighing of food (and the calorie counting that came with that), the perfect presentation for the billion photos (at a ton of different angles, of course!) and then - you’ve got this other extreme in the form of a “I did a biathlon, today!” or “I got up at 4am and ran 1000 miles, because I feel SO healthy!” or “I missed a day at the gym! I feel so blah, and gross, and I just CANNOT wake up without my morning run. I SHOULD HAVE gone!”
The only type of people who think about food as much as you two (or, at the very least, her) are girls with eating disorders. It is not normal. I don’t think I’ve EVER come across someone who is so blatantly obsessed with food.
With that said, it’s your life. If you want to waste your time obsessing about what you’re making for supper as soon as you wake up in the morning (or in the shower, after your 25 miles run on a Saturday morning), then, more power to you. If you feel that your blog finally gives you the admiration you deserve (you are, afterall, the epiphany of control), then I’m happy for you. Personally, I think there are more important things to worry about (and, enjoy for that matter), but hey. That’s why I don’t read your blog anymore.
I totally get everything you are saying. I have gone through lots of phases of food blog reading, starting out w/ gourmet type blogs like Chocolate and Zucchini (very cute + classy), Orangette (got disenchanted, too precious), Amateur Gourmet etc. Then moving on to “Eat Like Me” on Self (pretty normal) and then through that Kath and Eat Live Run. Chocolate and Zucchini and Eat Live Run are probably my favorite of all the above; to me they’re the most normal.
I have a couple views on this (which I probably should be writing in my own blog because it is my specially designated place for Not Irritating Other People By Endlessly Describing My Opinions Where They’re Not Wanted). First view is that I am a former eating disordered person and that definitely w/o a doubt all my interest in food stems from this. I’m not skinny anymore and I wish I were and I wish I ate exactly like some of the girls in these blogs. However, I don’t actually care enough to do it. I have a hard time saying something is “not normal” because if a lot of people do something, it kinda becomes a normal thing to do. I agree that “everything I ate” style food blogs seem obsessive, but I actually do MANY, MANY obsessive things that I just don’t write about on the Internet (I don’t have OCD, but am control freak!). Instead of food, it’s stuff like moving my chairs around until they’re in just the right places, and checking books out of the library that I just kind of like having around even though I have read them a million times already. Weird, yes? Unhealthy, maybe a little bit? Maybe if I wrote about it on the internet its weirdness would be revealed. Everyone has their unhealthy stuff.
My second view is that almost everybody has a bunch of spare time in which they do stuff that they could probably better apply to a more honorable pursuit. I spend practically all my free time reading young adult and children’s novels (arguably, work related), watching Buffy DVD’s (probably my greatest pleasure in life), and reading the New York Times online. Plus reading everything else on the Internet. I could, instead, be gardening, which is visibly productive (i.e. you, hopefully, get an end result of pretty flowers). But instead I’ m doing some kind of time wasting things. So, the “obsessive”/ alternatively “not obsessive, simply meticulous” chronicling of what someone eats is pretty much their free time pursuit. We all have them.
In conclusion, the Internet is the source of all problems ever. But it’s also so delightful. I don’t think this ridiculously long comment made very much sense, but it’s kind of hard to express my thoughts on the “Obsessive Food Blogs” issue, because I am not 100% sure what my exact view is.
Um. I just read this while eating a bowl of Nature’s Path Organic Flax Plus pumpkin rasin crunch with 650 mg Omega-3 per serving with Almond milk on it.
BUT!
Last night I woke up at 10:30 and ate a non organic strawberry buttercream cupcake I made from a boxed mix that I paid $1 for at Job Lot.
So yeah. I can’t really read food blogs, Except Ari’s because I love Ari, because they make me feel overwhelmed and very bad about myself.
Great post Lady!
Food blogs make me uncomfortable. They don’t make me feel badly about myself, because I think I have a higher sense of self-worth than that, but yes, they do indeed make me uncomfortable. I don’t know…I liked what you said in this post, because I agree with it and now don’t have to waste my energy trying to put my thoughts into my own words. Yay!
I am a fitness instructor and I also like to eat. I watch what I eat, but I dont feel bad when I go off the good food diet for a day or two. I don’t blog much on my personal blog about food or working out, because I spend so much time thinking about it otherwise. I like blogs like yours better than food blogs.
This is why I love you and feel so lucky to be your intern! You may be funny, but you smart and you know what’s up.
Also - I agree! There is a difference between writing a blog that shows you fun new ways to ENJOY food rather than blogs that tell you how to CONTROL food. You should be loving it, and tasting it, and experiencing it. Not feeling guilty.
As a recovering bulimic (I know - you say ‘Meagan - you’re so lovely, how could you” — don’t judge. Life is hard!) I see these blogs two ways: the old part of me takes notes. The new part tells the old part to go f&$% itself and realize its damaging effects.
I understand the draw for women. I get where the need for these blogs came from, and I know why they’ll stay around. It just makes me hope that blogs like most of ours [those of you commenting who I stalk regularly, I mean] with witty banter and observational anger are the ones that young girls read. I hope they learn to be funny and clever and charming. Not unhealthy and angry and obsessed.
That is all.
Intern out.
I was going to start a food blog documenting everything I eat while reading food blogs. But I was too lazy.
Amen, Kiala. Amen.
And yet, I can’t stop reading them…. Meh. It’s like a car wreck. You want to stop staring, but you just can’t look away.
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