Revisiting what "healthy eating" means to me

And the long, slow divestment from diet culture

Content warning: disordered eating, fatphobia

I’ll just start by saying that divesting from diet culture is…hard. As was writing this week’s essay.

In preparing to write this one, I revisited some of my old newsletters from when I wrote a weekly dispatch called What’s Chaey Cooking? for Healthyish/Bon Appétit, which I know some of you here used to read. I was immediately struck by the barely-veiled disordered eating that screams out on the page (and, just under it, some raging anti-fat bias, too).