I Have a Quick Favor To Ask...
In lieu of a traditional Friday Thread
I got some fun news from my publisher recently: Fat Talk has gone into its third printing! I am so so proud of that baby and the work it’s doing out in the world. We’re making plans now for the paperback release, which will be out in December (but you can preorder it already!) featuring a brand new introduction by the brilliant
, some updated resources, and a new afterword by me.Real talk: I have never written an afterword before and this feels slightly daunting? It means wrapping my head around what this book has done and meant — and as
told me (and I know from writing my first book) it takes at least three years to be able to know any of that! But here we are, not even a year out and I must produce some coherent thoughts!So here’s where I figure my Burnt Toasties can help a writer out.
If you read Fat Talk (in any format!) and found it meaningful, I’d love to hear how it helped you?
Did it make it easier to navigate a pediatrician appointment? Did it help you talk to your kids’ school about calorie counting assignments? Did you figure out how to have a potentially fraught conversation with your kid or your parent or your partner? Did you just have a super fun night with your book club?
If you’re a doctor, dietitian, therapist, researcher or anyone else who works professionally on food and bodies, I’d love to know any ways the book has been professionally useful too.
You can drop your responses in the comments (I’m opening them up to everyone today!) or put them here if you’d rather share privately.
And if you haven’t read Fat Talk yet… I got you!
Anything you share is fair game for quoting, but I’ll be in touch to get your express permission before using names. (Oh and if you already emailed me about this, I read it and appreciated it so much and probably/hopefully saved it! But feel free to ah, copy and paste just in case?)
PS. This is a book post, so I didn’t include my usual what-if-you-became-a-paid-BT-subscriber spiel, but Substack gets worried when I skip it so just in case you’ve been thinking about a paid subscription to BT, here’s how you do that. We are very fun here!
When I read Fat Talk, I was a new mom with a six month old and I was starting to go down the no sugar or salt EVER path. Fat Talk helped me recognize the diet-culture and anti-fatness showing up in the advice for feeding my perfect little baby and once that happened my own intuition became the loudest voice in my head again. My toddler now eats lots of broccoli and lots of cookies and I mostly don’t care, in a good way.
I am recovering from an ED and was clueless on how to navigate food and conversations around food with my kids. It was a topic I brought up in therapy constantly because I was being triggered by my own children! After reading FatTalk, I was able to finally have a way to peacefully feed my kids without being triggered myself (division of responsibility) and I now have language I can use to help them through questions they have about food, health and their bodies without being triggered! It’s been a huge win!! This is too funny because last night we even went to “family fitness night” at my kids’ school, which we have skipped the past 2 years because it’s been too triggering for me, but I sat my kids down beforehand and talked to them about how health is different than what society will tell them. We had a great discussion, went to Dairy Queen, then did family fitness night and had a blast!! Fat Talk has changed my life because I couldn’t escape my triggers and now I have a way to work through them.