A short question with a (pretty) short answer today.

Anonymous writes: You used to recommend Gillian Riley's book Eating Less, which I bought. Does your book cover basically the same ground, "eat meals"? Thx.

Thank YOU for asking, Anonymous! I love the hard gnarly questions, and I love the simple and easy ones, like this one.

My book differs from Gillian’s in a couple important ways. You will have guessed this, as I felt the need to write a book 😉. They’re more alike than say, Skyrim and gelato. But let’s talk about the differences!

Riley’s book is called “Eating Less.” It’s not called Eating Less Chaotically or Eating Less Frequently. “Eating Less.” She says somewhere that her publisher didn’t want her to call it that, but she insisted.

I think this tells you something about the vibe of the book. There’s sanity in it, but also a certain severity. A little rigidity, maybe.

There’s sanity in my book, too, but also a certain GENEROSITY.

And like the buddhists say, generosity is the virtue that produces peace.

So. It’s a vibe thing. The vibes of my book are very different from hers and I am going to say from all other books on the topic.

I will also say her thing is more complicated than “meals at mealtimes” and that’s in service of eating less. That’s fine if it’s what you want!

(And so long as “eating less” doesn’t become “eating as little as possible” which is a thing that can happen if you’ve been soaking in diet culture for a while.)

My thinking about eating does not start and stop with the individual. There are some angry words (and cussing) in this book for the culture. It is not a book for children. But if that’s okay with you, my book will show you the easy way to get your eating under control, and it will make you laugh.

Anonymous, what I’m wondering is: are you struggling with chaotic eating? That’s what my book is for! That is the problem it is designed to demolish, once and for all, simply, quickly, cheaply, invisibly, flexibly and with dignity.

Or are you doing any kind of eating that you find upsetting and out of control and that you regret? Like, is this bothering you right now? Or do you know it will be again soon?

Bottom line, if you have an eating problem and you haven’t read this book, what is holding you back? It could not be more accessible.

GET MY BOOK! You will not be disappointed. Do it now. You can start and finish it this afternoon.

It will not be a waste of your money. I can just about guarantee that it will repay your time and attention and your $5 thousands of times over.

IT WILL HELP YOU. It is very, very likely to solve your problem with unbelievable speed.

This little book may be all you ever need. It is a complete solution and I don’t hold anything back so that you’ll hire me for coaching.

If you want to talk it over, I’m available! I genuinely delight in working 1:1 with the ppl! Just hit Reply and we’ll make a time in the immediate future.

Not for nothing, ppl have said to me: You said I would quit binging after one session, and I did not believe you. And then I DID.

But the GOLDEN KEY IS ALREADY IN THE BOOK ALREADY.

Paperback link.

Kindle link.

Anonymous, let me know how it goes! Thanks 🙏 for asking.

RECOMMENDING.

writing.

Over at Modern Daily Knitting, some ideas for what you can think about once and then never again. Set it and forget it!

reading.

Moonflower Murders, Anthony Horowitz. A mystery-within-a-mystery. The wrapper is present day, and the internal novella is set in the 50s, kind of a just-post-golden-era Agatha Christie kind of thing. It gives quite the view into the “author”’s unpleasant prejudices about the characters he’s based on the cast of the wrapper novel.

It’s clever, as you expect from Horowitz, and unsettling in that way of shared language, confusing culture.¹ Horowitz also wrote for Midsomer Murders, which I found similar baffling. Like, am I to understand these people as … real? Ish? They are SO DADGUM WEIRD. Their thinking is so weird! Just me? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ let me know what you think if you watched this show.

Infallible Human Recommendation Engine Julie H. says The Antidote is really good, so I will be trying that again soon. Need to block out my calendar.

Currently on the go is The Hunter, Tana French’s sequel to The Searcher. Took no time to get me in its grip. Plan to follow it up with True Grit, which I’ve shamefully never read and which I now guess French is gesturing to.

watching.

Murderbot of course! Idk about Skarsgård, although I am among the ppl that always read Murderbot as male. Mensah is just PERFECT. I LOVELOVELOVE that they are actually giving us scenes from Sanctuary Moon—another show-within-a-show—and John Cho is 🤌

And that’s the week!

👊  respect!

💗  adore!  

🙏  and thank you for reading.