Latest articles
The latest writing from Too Petty to Quit, with the newest article first.
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When your partner can eat differently from you
My husband can eat larger portions, snack freely and remain a skinny, muscly rake. I cannot. Learning to accept that difference took years of resentment, petty thoughts and staring bitterly at his plate.
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The guilt after eating more than you planned
After one enormous Eurovision platter, the food was gone but the guilt stayed. One meal did not ruin the week. The story I told myself afterwards nearly did.
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Fat noise: When your size enters the room before you do
When I was bigger, my size seemed to enter every room before I did. I call that constant background fear “fat noise”: The exhausting belief that other people are judging your body, your character and your right to take up space.
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Create a minimum-version day
When the full plan falls apart, I need something between doing everything properly and abandoning the day. A minimum-version day gives me a smaller, pre-decided way to keep going.
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Why knowing what to eat is not the same as being able to live it
Knowing about calories and nutritious food is the easy part. Living that knowledge when I am tired, hungry and desperate for comfort is where it becomes difficult.
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The scale went up. My mood went down.
One disappointing weigh-in can rewrite the whole week, make your effort feel pointless and start influencing what you eat next. The scale may be reporting information, but it does not get to run the rest of the day.
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You do not need to start again
A bad meal or lost weekend does not need a dramatic restart. The next normal choice matters more than Monday.
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All-or-nothing thinking is the real saboteur
The problem is not always the imperfect choice. It is the belief that anything less than perfect no longer counts.
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The quiet war starts the moment the diet does
The moment I decide I am properly on a diet, the first thing I lose is not weight. It is peace. Suddenly, the calories for the entire day need to be calculated. Then recalculated. Then adjusted because I have changed my mind about dinner. Then recalculated again, in case mathematics has undergone a significant development…