Julia and her wife, Grace Bonney, have an honest talk about body stuff.

Follow-Up Links:

• Head here to Dinnerly and use the code 'KEEPCALM' to get $60 off of your first 4 boxes!
• To  pre-order Grace's upcoming book, Collective Wisdom, head here.
• To order signed copies of all of Julia's cookbooks, including Simply Julia, head here.
• To order Keep Calm & Cook On merch, head here.

Mental Health Resources:

• For a list of anti-diet, Health at Every Size + Intuitive Eating providers for disordered-eating recovery, head mail.com/zlumekkpmebnhqol88ap/g3hoe533b5he37rlq8f3/aHR0cHM6Ly9jaHJpc3R5aGFycmlzb24uY29tL2hhZXMtYW50aS1kaWV0LWludHVpdGl2ZS1lYXRpbmctcHJvdmlkZXJzLWVhdGluZy1kaXNvcmRlci1yZWNvdmVyeQ==">here. For an additional list of Certified Intuitive Eating Counselors, head here.
• There are also some good low-cost support groups available, such as the mail.com/zlumekkpmebnhqol88ap/48hvheh0rzvpx4aq/aHR0cHM6Ly9jZW50ZXJmb3JkaXNjb3ZlcnkuY29tL2dyb3Vwcy8=">Center for Discovery’s virtual groups for people of various ages and backgrounds, or Nalgona Positivity Pride’s mail.com/zlumekkpmebnhqol88ap/reh8hohq09436os6/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubmFsZ29uYXBvc2l0aXZpdHlwcmlkZS5jb20vc2FnZS1hbmQtc3Bvb24=">Sage and Spoon groups for BIPOC folks ages 18 and up.

Books/Authors to Follow:

• Fearing the Black Body:  The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings
• Body Respect: What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out, and Just Plain Fail to Understand About Weight by Dr. Lindo Bacon and Lucy Aphramor
• Radical Belonging: How to Survive and Thrive in an Unjust World (While Transforming it for The Better) by Dr. Lindo Bacon
• What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon
• Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
• The Body is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical Self Love by Sonya Renee Taylor
• Sitting Pretty: The View  From My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body by Rebekah Taussig
• Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the 21st Century, Edited by Alice Wong
• Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist by Judy Heumann with Kristen Joiner

Selected Romance Novelists:

• Jasmine Guillory
• Casey McQuiston
• Morgan Rogers
• Selena Montgomery (a.ka. Stacey Abrams!)
• Harper Bliss (specifically the Pink Bean series)

Articles/Additional Writers to Follow:

• "Reading Anti-Racist Nonfiction is a Start. But Don't Underestimate the Power of Black Fiction" by Jasmine Guillory
• "How Writing a Cookbook Helped Me Break Free From Diet Culture" by Julia Turshen (excerpted by Healthyish from Simply Julia)
• dieting-wellness.html">"Smash the Wellness Industry" by Jessica Knoll
• Imani Barbarin (Crutches & Spice)

Podcasts / TV Show:

• Food Heaven
• Maintenance Phase
• Shrill