Living ~400lbs

HAES book: “But not dieting is harmful, right?”

Books, HAES, health

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You may have read about the study Linda Bacon conducted comparing a standard diet program with a nondieting, “Health at Every Size”-style program, or my post about Bacon’s book (Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth about Your Weight) yesterday. This is a story from the book that I wanted to shout from the treetops. :) Dr Bacon describes how she asked her mentor, Judith S. Stern,…
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Linda Bacon’s Health At Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight

Books, HAES

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Linda Bacon earned a master’s in psychotherapy, with a specialty in eating disorders and body image, and worked as a therapist before going back to school for a master’s degree in exercise science. Then she completed a doctorate in physiology, with a focus in nutrition and weight regulation. (There’s a reason this book’s 326 pages includes 29 pages of citations!) There is similarity with Glenn Gaesser’s Big…
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Supportive Shoes Rock

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This is from an article on sports injuries, but I thought it generally relevant: Many foot injuries are, in fact, the result of wearing the wrong shoes or the wrong shoe size.
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Inspiration

FatnessInGeneral, Me, OtherBlogs, ThisBlog

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Fillyjonk at Shapely Prose reminded me today of one of the immediate inspirations for this blog: Lesley at Fatshionista’s post “THIS IS 300: Taking Pictures, Being Personal, & Weighing 300 Pounds“. One thing that reading some obesity research has given me is to realize that yes, I am an oddity (and there’s nothing wrong with that :) MOST people who are obese are shaped more like Kate…
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…and the other reason why I exercise

arthritis, Exercise, Me, My health, my knee h8s me

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It’s called, “Use it or lose it.” Last fall* I pulled a muscle in my right leg. Kept up my daily walks, pulled it again – or maybe pulled another muscle. This aggravated the occasional pain I would have in my right knee, and added some hip and thigh pain too. By November I was noticeably limping much of the time. I couldn’t walk without pain. I…
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“Do the math”: Exercise & Weight loss

Exercise, FatnessInGeneral, health

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It’s something you commonly see. Example: “The average person walking half an hour a day would lose about 13 pounds a year”. Recently a study actually had sedentary folks start exercising an HOUR a day, 6 days a week for a year. One would think they’d lose, what, more than 13 pounds on average, right? Nope. The women lost an average of 3 pounds and the men…
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Small update

Asthma, health

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I had been slacking on working out this week. (Something about starting this blog that eats up my free time… !) But after writing the post about the aerobics tape last night, I went ahead and did it this morning. It felt good :) The suprise is that I’ve been feeling kind of congested / sick the last few days and taking it easy. I think getting…
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Day in the Life: Aerobics

DayInTheLife, Exercise, health

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I don’t do this every day. But if I’m doing it, it’s before my shower. I use a copy of the Women At Large: 30-Minute Workout I picked up years ago. I do make a few modifications. Such as: I often sit during the first few starting stretches. This is because I’m not exactly a morning person and usually am dragging my feet on starting. Sitting while doing the…
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A bit more on asthma….

Asthma, Books, Exercise, My health

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It’s been great hearing that others have run into the “You mean it’s asthma, not just that I’m fat?” experience. Thought you would be interested in this, from the American College of Physicians Home Medical Guide: Asthma …. Main symptoms of asthma: Wheezing: May occur with or without shortness of breath in response to a trigger or for no obvious reason. Shortness of breath: Often associated with…
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Fat Women Have Sex Too!

FatnessInGeneral, Sex

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Researchers looking at women age 15-45 (divided into the BMI categories of normal weight, overweight, and obese) found a shocking result: The investigators found no significant differences among the weight groups in sexual orientation, frequency of sexual intercourse, the number of current partners, age at first intercourse, the number of lifetime male partners, or the number of male partners in the previous year. Why, it’s almost as…
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