I spent the first twenty-two years of my life waiting. I was waiting until I was prettier, better dressed, smarter, richer, more successful, happier, but mostly – thinner. I had my entire life on hold waiting, hoping that *next* time I’d be able to keep off the weight, *next* time I’d fit into a size [...]
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I’ve been having a difficult time lately with my body. We have not been getting along. It will not do anything I say, stubbornly holding on to the (fat) cells which protect it from my anger and meanness, knowing full and well that my mind has not been in the right place and I have [...]
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or, Lessons I Don’t Want to Teach My Daughters, depending. I feel revolting. I am too busy to feel revolting. And yet, here I am, again, feeling like my skin is too tight and I am suffocating in my overwhelming need to consume. I will give myself a slight reprieve: I did quit smoking – [...]
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Hello hello and welcome to the first for real, very serious, weekly installment of body loving posts of the blogosphere! Since it’s been so long since my last post of this nature I have oodles of fun and beautiful reads for you! Una Bella Vita, You Can Be Loved Every Woman Has an Eating Disorder, Stories: [...]
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I know you think I’ve abandoned you. In some ways perhaps this is true, so I will give you that, but I assure you that I still love you. In fact I have been spending much time thinking about the many many ways in which to serve you better and bring you more fun, more [...]
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Because it has been much, much too long since I’ve had this much casual, uninterupted internet time. Jezebel, Mis-shapes: In Which We Explore The Ridiculousness of “Dressing for Your Shape” Fat Lot of Good, Call for study participants Big Fat Deal, Self-conscious during sex You Are Remarkable, Start your day off well Think Simple Now, [...]
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Happy 2009 loves. As I have been obsessively cultivating and nurturing my google reader (after a post from the amazing miss gala darling about HER google reader, and of course then i had to get one too), I have found several superb new body-loving posts to celebrate the new year! Hopefully you will find them [...]
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today’s NaNoWriMo excerpt: When you’re an adult, eating becomes different.Instead of being told what to eat, or sitting down to an already prepared meal, or scavenging for as snack in the cupboards filled by your parents, you possess the ability to get in your car, go to the store, decide what you want, and open [...]
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An article in the Huffington Post, Do Overweight Women Skip Sex? Fat Chance!, cites a recent study based on data on more than 7,000 women collected in the 2002 national survey of family growth in stating new claims that, contrary to popular belief (?), overweight and obese women seem to be having more sex than [...]
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In continuing to think about Juanita, and the plight of overweight teenage girls in general, I stumbled across this interesting post, “Fat Acceptance” Philosophies Hit The Mainstream, on Jezebel. Of course, I was immediately drawn to the title and upon reading it was introduced to a weight-related study done by obesity researchers at Duke University [...]
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