02480cam a22003253u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003701000130007804000110009104100170010205000070011910000300012624500260015626400510018230000470023333600260028033700260030633800360033250000310036850801870039952013920058653400610197865300090203965300120204885600510206085600430211178225UtSlPG20260610134819.0mcr n260607r20261935utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  a35004668  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aRC1 aHurst, Fannie,d1889-196810aNo food with my meals 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2026  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2026-03-17  aTim Lindell, Steve Mattern and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)  aNo food with my meals by Fannie Hurst is an autobiographical essay written in the early 20th century. It reflects on the social and psychological pressures surrounding women’s body ideals, tracing the rise of slimming culture and its impact on health, identity, and everyday life.

The narrator recounts a Midwestern upbringing of hearty meals, a lifelong tendency to be overweight, and the moment a lunch with a willowy friend spurs shame and a fierce resolve to reduce. After years of fads, gadgets, and spas, she consults a doctor, submits to a metabolism test, and adopts a strict regimen she then overdrives: black coffee, lean protein, “five-percent” vegetables, and relentless calorie counting. The physical success brings a hollow victory—she becomes edgy, cold, humorless, and obsessed with food she won’t eat, even urging guests to overindulge so she can savor denial by proxy. Alongside this intimate confession runs a sharp critique of Hollywood, fashion houses, and mannequin-thin standards that train women (and men) to admire concavity over vitality, with warnings about the risks of fad diets and chronic undernourishment. Chastened, she argues for moderation, medical guidance, and perspective, regaining enough humor to see her own absurdities and to caution other dieters against the perilous shortcuts she took. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cNew York: Harper & Brothers, 1935  aDiet  aObesity4 uhttps://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.3901501862762340uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78225