Field Notes from a Fat Girl
30 years of data. 200+ books. One honest trail.
I wore a size 6 and hated myself. I weighed 287 and finally started learning. This site is everything I found along the way — the research, the data, the hard parts nobody warns you about.
Obesity. GLP-1 medications. Emotional eating. Perimenopause. The stuff that actually matters, written plainly.
Recent Field Notes
- Enough by Oprah Winfrey and Ania Jastreboff: Summary, Key Ideas & ReviewBook in one sentence: A co-authored memoir and medicine book that reframes obesity as a disease driven by biology, not willpower, written by an Obesity…
- Diet, Drugs, and Dopamine by David Kessler: Summary, Key Ideas & ReviewThe book in one sentence: The former FDA commissioner who took down Big Tobacco makes the case that ultra-processed food is addictive in the same…
- The Harvard Medical School Guide to Yoga by Marlynn Wei: Summary, Key Ideas & ReviewThe book in one sentence: Two Harvard psychiatrists who practice yoga and prescribe it to patients distill 300+ clinical trials into a beginner-friendly, 8-week program…
Weekly Field Dispatch
LESS EXCESS. MORE LIFE.
One email a week. What I am reading, what I am learning, what I wish someone had told me. No spam. No selling.