Article: Smash the Wellness Industry
This is hysterical. She roundly criticises the “wellness industry”, and then to make her better she does this:
“I searched “intuitive eating” online…The search led me to a nearby dietitian who is considered by some to be one of the founding mothers of intuitive eating. I picked up the phone.”
Errrr…
I get where she’s coming from as a woman who lives in an appearance obsessed society. All women get this (and men too, I’m not counting you guys out) but she likes to pin it on a patriarchal system that designed to keep women “small” so men aren’t threatened which I think is over the top.
Money makes the world go round. If everyone was naturally thin we’d be telling women they’re too thin and selling a way for them to pack on curves. It’s not about being women, or men. It’s about manipulating human insecurity to make a buck.
That said, however, this woman is writing an opinion piece and is entitled to her opinion.
I hear you. She is contradictory. Giving voice to the situation could even be considered hypocritical. She’s complaining about women talking about their weight/body woes during a lunch yet those same women didn’t write an entire opinion piece about it for the NYTimes. She did.
Bet she got well paid for it. Follow the money…
This is why I love keto so much. It is very hard to make a living off it. Therefore it is much less likely to be bastardised by the money grabbers. Those trying to make money are fairly obvious.
I also like keto because it’s science and it works (for most people) so it doesn’t get bastardized like other ways of eating. I’m okay with people hating on it (out of fear or ignorance). When someone notices I’m looking and feeling good I just say thank you these days, and nothing else.
Agreed. I’ve stopped being quite so evangelical. Sticking to leading by example and the occasional quiet well done comment to those I know are on the same path and are going well.
How do I know who’s on the same path? They steal my cream for their coffee! 
Right, since I’ve gone low carb my wife now uses my half and half rather than skim.
I read the article. She has a point, but the problem is not her friends. They have observed that there is a “winners’ circle” in modern society, and for women one of the entry points and/or exclusion factors is body size and physical appearance.
One can rightly say “this is bad, people should not be judged by their physical appearance, but on other factors” - which means, incidentally, that they would still like people to be judged, but on factors where they themselves are winners.
I, for example, wish people were prized for logical thinking, blunt truth-telling, and technical expertise. However, the winners circle is reserved for the “people persons” who can socialize, schmooze, glad hand, kiss up, and tell everyone what they want to hear. Oh, and be good looking, with symmetrical features, slim, athletic, and have all of their hair.
So some people, who are wanting to be in what they perceive the winners’ circles to be, think about what they think will get you there, and try to achieve or emulate that.
So for professional women, recognizing what factors are rewarded by the society they find themselves in and therefore working on achieving, retaining, or regaining those factors, is not surprising.
Her complaint is that society values features in women that she herself has a hard time achieving, and has decided to stop chasing. Certainly a reasonable approach. There’s only so much effort you can put forth in life. So you eventually have to accept your limitations and realize that those limitations may limit you.