What I am reading on Substack?
Your list of amazing writers talks about cool things, including body acceptance, diet culture, feminism, equity, health, fat phobia, and diabetes care. Sometimes, they even include tasty recipes!
No Weight Loss Required is a weight newsletter for people with prediabetes and type 2 diabetes. The goal of NWLR is to help you shift your relationship with food, eating, your body, and health.
Why?
Well, after being a dietitian for 34 years, I can report with 100% certainty that you can’t hate yourself well. You can’t hate yourself to change. You can’t hate yourself to engage in self-care, exercise, monitor, or take your medication.
Hating having diabetes won’t give you motivation, energy, health, or peace of mind. Instead, it will destroy all of these precious things. Once destroyed, you will look back and long for a time when self-disgust and personal defeat weren’t the dominant emotions.
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Hating having diabetes won’t give you motivation, energy, health, or peace of mind. Instead, it will destroy all of these precious things. Once destroyed, you will look back and long for a time when self-disgust and personal defeat weren’t the dominant emotions.
It is a bummer because this is how our current media presents diabetes care. Think about it: how many articles and ads claim that with ‘X,’ you are going to defeat, beat, conquer, crush, and resist diabetes, elevated blood sugars, cravings, and low motivation?
These headlines and self-help articles do give you insight. Your motivations bloom, and you feel successful (congratulations, by the way) for a day, week, or month, and then you don’t. Now, you return to finding a new thing, approach, or view to try again. This is how capitalism makes money. You try something (like a diet) over and over again. It is a cycle, and for many people with diabetes, it is a familiar one.
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So, how can you break free of this cycle? There isn’t one approach or way, but learning from others is a great start. This is why I have created a list of Substack writers I value. Coming alongside diabetes is complicated because humans (yes, including you) are complicated. Not everyone with diabetes is looking for a recipe or what is their target blood sugar. This is because diabetes is a chronic condition that intersects with many existing personal and societal conditions, including but not limited to health equity, your relationship with your body, food, eating, health, gender, money, exercise, aging, life’s purpose, fatphobia, lived experience, culture, politics, and more. It is a lot, but as we have learned, humans (including you) are complicated. Giving yourself permission to get curious is awesome. Giving yourself permission to listen and explore other ideas, even if you disagree with them, is even better! I have included the subject in bold and a link to their Substack page. Most of them are free to subscribe to.
Diabetes and Health Equity
Weight-inclusive Diabetes Care
Weight-Inclusive Nutrition
Something to Chew on
Nutrition Tea:
Joyful + Nourishment:
A Full Life
Weight-inclusive Movement
Wellness Culture:
Weight and Healthcare:
Can I Have Another Snack
More to Hate:
Fat Acceptance/Lived Experience
Burnt Toast:
Feminism
Men Yell At Me:
Noosphere:
Mindfulness
Recipes (Which may not be nutrient/diabetes-focused)
Snacks:
Good food mood:
Sunday Stack
This shit rocks