There once was a girl named Summer and her holiday season used to look like this: After coming off her latest attempt at cutting out sugar for 30 days (holiday prep!), she spends 53 hours stressing about how she’s … Read More
The One Thing You Must Do To Improve Your Body Image
Overcoming body shame requires a radical shift in thinking that is contrary to the majority of messages we receive from our ‘bangin’ bod’ obsessed culture. Sidenote: everything that is wrong with this culture is captured in the phrase bangin’ … Read More
Is Paleo giving you the diet mentality?
I hear from women all the time that say they eat ‘paleo’ or ‘healthy’, but still feel like they don’t have control over food. Food is not fun or easy. Their relationship to food sounds worse than my freshman … Read More
Resolutions are bullshit: A different way to make change
It’s that time of year where we are inundated with messages to detox, cleanse and ‘reset’. Whole foods has replaced all of their pie displays with green powder cleanses and 45 different hardcover ways to repent your Christmas sins. … Read More
11 Signs You Need To Ditch Paleo
You could say that I’m known as an anti-diet crusader. However, people often assume this means that I’m all about the cupcakes (cue another annoying Meghan Trainor parody) and that I’m against certain eating plans, like Paleo or Real Food or GET SHREDDED … Read More
FRR 16 – Fuck It – Interview With Caroline Haagen (Fuck It Diet)
In this episode of Fearless Rebelle Radio I interview Caroline Haagen. Caroline is the creator of the site thefuckitdiet.com. She is an anti-diet writer, body image activist, eating recovery mentor, and an actress and comedian. Yeah, you can see why I love her. … Read More
How should you ‘measure success’ without a scale?
Recently, I’ve had a couple women ask me…“Summer, if I get rid of my scale, how do I measure ‘my success’? Should I use measurements? How am I going to stay accountable if I don’t weigh myself?!?” We live … Read More
FRR 11 – Eat & Live Intuitively – Interview With Lauren Fowler
In this episode of Fearless Rebelle Radio I interview Lauren Fowler – Registered Dietician, intuitive eating expert and health at every size advocate – on how to eat and live intuitively to break up with dieting. This episode is full of super … Read More
Food Deprivation Is Not Why You Binge
As you know, food deprivation is a one-way ticket to… …can’t stop thinking about the chips in cupboard… …I’ll have one because I am doing that 30-day ab challenge… …well I’ve already had one, so I’ll have another… …mmmm…noms… …well, … Read More
Why Diets Don’t Work
Why Diets Don’t Work Let me tell you something surprising about that ‘perfect diet’ that you follow, or the one that you are going to “start next week”: It’s a sabotage-fest waiting to happen. Those foods you’ve labeled … Read More