What Are You Most Proud of, for 2022? And What's Your Anti-Diet Resolution for 2023?
Because we are not starting fucking keto, Brad.
This is your last Friday Thread of the year, so let’s do a little two-part reflection today:
Prompt 1: What are you feeling most good about, in terms of the past year?
This doesn’t have to be your GoodReads tally or your Peloton stack (did I say that right), and it for sure should not be that you lost weight, because body size has no moral value here. It can be body or movement related —one thing I’m proud of is going on two lovely hikes with my local Body Liberation Hiking Club, both because the hikes themselves were delightful and because it means I’m getting better at carving out time for myself for a leisure activity where I leave the house. But it could also be that you survived a hard thing, that you started eating when you’re hungry, that you rested more, that you kept a houseplant alive.
Prompt 2: What’s your anti-diet resolution for 2023?
I know. It’s annoyingly early to think about resolutions and a lot of people hate resolutions and you DO NOT HAVE TO MAKE THEM. But it can be a great self-care strategy to resolve to do something that is NOT dieting. Maybe this will be the year you do not re-download Noom. Or it could be some bigger goal for changes you want to make in your family, anti-fat advocacy you want to do in your community or school, you name it.
I’m asking now because we’re working on a Very Special Podcast Episode for January, which we hope will help to counter some of the weight loss resolution noise that gets so loud then. And we want it to be a true community conversation! So you can comment in response to this prompt here, but even better (and open to everyone whether you’re a paid subscriber or not): Record a voice memo on your phone telling us your anti-diet resolution and send it to Corinne at virginiasolesmith.assistant@gmail.com. We’ll be featuring as many as we can in the episode. Thank you!
Friday Links
Roxane Gay on The Whale says everything that needs to be said.
How the trauma field is traumatizing fat people (a must-read from Dr. Rachel Millner).