I am currently working on a long-form, literary memoir called STUFFED: The Things Men Eat. It is one man’s story of 20 years of life and almost death with binge eating disorder, set in the context of America’s growing obesity crisis. Stuffed takes the reader on a journey through burger joints, diet workshops, addiction meetings, therapy chairs, and near-fatal weight-loss surgery, told from a male perspective in a world where we’re conditioned to think of eating disorders as a uniquely female and exclusively thin phenomenon. This, despite the fact that BED is by far the most common eating disorder, affecting nearly three percent of the U.S. population, and the only eating disorder affecting men and women almost equally. In a culture that prizes classical masculinity and movie-star-macho, men often lack the language and emotional intelligence to speak of their challenges.
Michael Sinert 