Katniss has a healthy relationship with food

Katniss has a healthy relationship with food, despite struggling for food most of her childhood. In the books, Katniss experiences food as nourishment, necessity and, when possible, enjoyment. Katniss doesn't eat her lamb stew with a side of guilt and an off handed comment about how "she'll go running tomorrow". She just eats it (with a side of resentment for the capitol and the system she's a part of, but, well, that's a much healthier and accurate way of looking at things, imo.)

 As for the movie, I haven't seen it yet, but I heard there was drams with the casting of Jennifer Lawrence. I thought this blog concluded their summary nicely: "Jennifer has said previously talked about her weight, saying ”I don’t really diet or anything. I’m miserable when I’m dieting and I like the way I look." She's miserable when she's dieting, so she doesn't do it. Smart thinking!

 I found the most inspiration from Katniss in the last line of the 3rd book. Often counting the days that I haven't weighed myself seems a lot like counting my weight. On my better days, I don't need it. But on other days, when I discover a scale in my Aunt's beach house on day 5 of our 10 day family reunion, on those days, I remind myself that even if not weighing myself feels like a game, "there are much worse games to play".

Research to Back Me Up

Wrote a ten page research paper on the subject: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AY1yEyEwIctThIin15NlrYexHCJp0Ycb_WlxfZw5SQ4/edit.

Dieting does not work!