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I’m Fine and a Mess
A Memoir of Living Better with High-Functioning Anxiety
Jonathan Bailor
Forthcoming from Post Hill Press.
A memoir about the anxiety behind a capable father’s life and what changes when he begins asking for help.
Author biography
Jonathan Bailor is the New York Times bestselling author of The Calorie Myth and the author of The Setpoint Diet and The Smarter Science of Slim. He spent a decade at Microsoft and is named as an inventor on twenty-eight issued U.S. patents. He then founded SANE Solution, a wellness company he has led as CEO for more than a decade. I’m Fine and a Mess is his first memoir, about the anxiety he hid for thirty-six years and what his wife and daughters could see before he could admit it. The book follows fatherhood, marriage, therapy, medication, and the cost of looking like he had everything handled. He lives outside Portland, in Washington, with his wife Angela and their three daughters.
Television
Selected appearances from Jonathan’s earlier books and documentary.
Fox & Friends (Fox News)
Four-part national television series for The Calorie Myth, January 2014.
Watch part 1 · Part 2 · Part 3 · Part 4
ABC, CBS, FOX, and NBC affiliate appearances
Including KING 5 / New Day Northwest, KOMO, Action 10 News, and ABC25.
National bylines
Newsweek · Opinion
“Big Food is the New Big Tobacco. We Must Take Them On”
August 4, 2021
Newsweek · Opinion
“Solving Food Segregation in Minority Communities”
September 20, 2021
The Huffington Post — contributing author archive
2013–2017
Documentary
BETTER
Jonathan served as executive producer of BETTER.
BETTER features Jonathan alongside the world’s leading nutrition researchers and physicians. It has won numerous awards and been viewed more than 2 million times across distribution platforms.
BETTER was pivotal in moving Jonathan’s work beyond eating and exercise. I’m Fine and a Mess continues that shift through his own experiences of marriage, fatherhood, and anxiety.
Speaking
TEDxTulane
“Can Superman End Diabetes?”
Microsoft Research · Invited speaker
“The Calorie Myth”
Earlier books and reviews
The Calorie Myth (HarperWave / HarperCollins) was a New York Times and USA Today bestseller. The Setpoint Diet was published by Hachette Books.