And yet this most recent PN blog post: http://www.precisionnutrition.com/amanda-interview – which I realize is not YOUR blog post – so destroys, for me, what you set out to do in this article.

I have so much emotionally invested in the PN brand and that shitty “new mom” article really feels like a betrayal to me. I’m posting this here because it seems to me that the blog post I’m linking is so at odds with what you say the LE experience is or can be about.

Great article too…thanks for all of this!

Yes. When I immigrated to Europe 15+ years I dropped a considerable amount of weight immediately (new country, new family, new life). Assimilation was a long and arduous process and my body image was the one thing that I felt was totally within my control – one way to belong in my new home. Or at least one way of blending in. I wasn’t a stereotypical “fat North American” – I was as lean, if not leaner, than most Frenchwomen. This was achieved through a near starvation diet and a two-pack a day cigarette habit. I did have enough sense when I hit 40 to realize that I was writing checks my body couldn’t cash. But it’s a slow road because much of my feelings about weight and body image and food in general are so negative – feels like fear, loss, loneliness and (some days) pure rage.