# Almost Sated Real conversations and personal stories to help midlife women redefine health beyond diets and restriction, navigate perimenopause, and find liberation through radical self-love. Page: Feed: --- ## [The reason thinness is becoming more extreme](https://www.almostsated.com/p/the-real-reason-thinness-is-becoming-more-extreme) _2026-08-14 · Kristi Koeter_ It's not just the GLP-1s. They collided with a culture that was already blurring the lines between beauty, health, and endless optimization. ## [July recap: The place that made us rethink our next chapter](https://www.almostsated.com/p/rethinking-home-in-ithaca) _2026-08-06 · Kristi Koeter_ Our summer trip through New York and Quebec changed the conversation about where, and how, we want to live. ## [The whales don't care how fat you are](https://www.almostsated.com/p/the-whales-dont-care-how-fat-you-are) _2026-07-31 · Kristi Koeter_ I went to Quebec hoping to see whales. I came home with a new perspective on body image, self-preoccupation, and the power of awe. ## [Why I never know how I'm going to feel in my body until I get there](https://www.almostsated.com/p/travel-body-image) _2026-07-16 · Kristi Koeter_ Travel has a way of bringing body image back. Here's what four years of intuitive eating taught me about comparison, place, and recovery. ## [June in the rearview](https://www.almostsated.com/p/june-2026-edit) _2026-07-02 · Kristi Koeter_ The stories that stayed with me, plus a look at what's ahead. ## [The Sephora employee who tried to save me](https://www.almostsated.com/p/summer-tinted-sunscreen) _2026-06-19 · Kristi Koeter_ All I wanted was a tinted sunscreen that could stand up to Texas in summer and, perhaps, a little mountain biking. ## [Too fat, too thin, too old, too sexy](https://www.almostsated.com/p/is-swimsuit-runway-body-image-aging) _2026-06-11 · Kristi Koeter_ What the SI Swimsuit Runway Show reveals about our beliefs around beauty, aging, and women’s bodies. ## [The divine pleasure of not waiting](https://www.almostsated.com/p/the-divine-pleasure-of-not-waiting) _2026-05-28 · Kristi Koeter_ How many of us are postponing our lives while trying to become more worthy of living them? ## [You do not fit in this space](https://www.almostsated.com/p/the-robe-that-wouldnt-close-catskills-trip) _2026-05-21 · Kristi Koeter_ On fat-shaming hotel robes, chasing Catskill waterfalls, and the radical act of loving the body you hiked in. ## [What I wore on repeat in Grenada](https://www.almostsated.com/p/what-i-wore-grenada-cover-up-rent-the-runway) _2026-04-30 · Kristi Koeter_ What I wore on repeat in Grenada and an update on my Rent the Runway experience. ## [Earn crypto for idle GPUs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/agPZlLDUhk8K) _2026-04-30 · **Sponsored**_ Run one CLI, host Qwen/Llama/Mistral, and earn BTC, ETH, SOL, or USDC ## [The uncomfortable silence](https://www.almostsated.com/p/uncomfortable-silence-after-you-share-too-much) _2026-04-16 · Kristi Koeter_ After you share too much. ## [My husband went to fat camp, and all I got was this lousy T-shirt\*](https://www.almostsated.com/p/husband-fat-camp-marriage-weight-loss) _2026-04-10 · Kristi Koeter_ I’ve had the line for this piece in my head for months, years probably, if I’m being honest, as my husband has been grappling over whether to go back to fitness camp, what I have lovingly dubbed fat camp. ## [On body ownership and degrees of fatness](https://www.almostsated.com/p/body-ownership-fatness-not-fitting) _2026-04-04 · Kristi Koeter_ Adult Braces, thin privilege, passing and naming a body that doesn’t quite fit. ## [The most body-positive place I've ever visited](https://www.almostsated.com/p/grenada-body-image-travel) _2026-03-26 · Kristi Koeter_ I just got back from Grenada, and it changed how I experienced my body. ## [Love and change, going gray, gaining weight](https://www.almostsated.com/p/love-and-change-going-gray-gaining-weight) _2026-03-19 · Kristi Koeter_ On marriage, midlife body changes, and learning to trust my body. ## [Reclaiming body trust in midlife - a conversation with Deb Benfield](https://www.almostsated.com/p/reclaiming-body-trust-in-midlife-deb-benfield) _2026-03-12 · Kristi Koeter_ The registered dietitian and author of 'Unapologetic Aging' talks midlife body changes, the pressure to fight aging, and why diet culture makes recovery harder. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/190502904/3728ae51f1f5230acecc3dec466b9363.mp3) ## [Have we turned a corner with GLP-1s?](https://www.almostsated.com/p/have-we-turned-a-corner-with-glp) _2026-02-25 · Kristi Koeter_ As the conversation shifts, the first wave of eating disorder concerns is beginning to surface. ## [On masking, musical theater, and belonging](https://www.almostsated.com/p/cheesing-so-hard) _2026-02-14 · Kristi Koeter_ What a late-autism diagnosis reveals about performing in spaces that don't quite make sense. ## [Shrinking, aging, and honoring the 8-year-old within](https://www.almostsated.com/p/honoring-my-8-year-old-self-body-image) _2026-02-05 · Kristi Koeter_ This winter, I almost wavered after three years of saying no to diets. ## [Trade Smarter With IBKR (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/2JKclp0dD8GZ) _2026-02-05 · **Sponsored**_ Join Interactive Brokers through a referral and access low-cost global trading. ## [Gangs of wine moms just might save America](https://www.almostsated.com/p/gangs-of-wine-moms-just-might-save) _2026-01-24 · Kristi Koeter_ But it requires us to stop shrinking, in every sense of the word.