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Read more: I am burly girl
I am burly girl
10 comments on I am burly girlbur·ly Adjective: (of a person) Large and strong; heavily built. Saturday I helped my father move into an Adult Family Home — smaller and less institutional setting than a nursing home, but still with 24-hour caregivers. The home is at the top of a long, steep driveway. How long? You could easily park 3 cars, one behind the other. Possibly four cars. We are talking serious hill here. My dad…
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Read more: Friday Fun
Friday Fun
Here’s something to make you smile Friday, courtesy of Beth Ditto: What are looking forward to this weekend? If it’s not your weekend, what are you looking forward to when you get there?
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Read more: Very Fat Characters and Writing Difference
Very Fat Characters and Writing Difference
As Roxane Gay notes in her discussion of The Help, Writing across race (or gender, sexuality, and disability) is complicated. Sometimes, it is downright messy. There is ample evidence that it is quite difficult to get difference right, to avoid cultural appropriation, reinscribing stereotypes, revising or minimizing history, or demeaning and trivializing difference or otherness. As writers we are always asking ourselves, “How do I get it…
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Read more: Where did you first encounter fat acceptance?
Where did you first encounter fat acceptance?
I first encountered research on Diets only working short-term Yo-yo dieting leading to weight gain Eating well and exercising improving your health, even if you don’t lose weight … in the pages of the 1980s BBW magazine, along with the general idea that you don’t have to be thin to live a happy life. I even went to a BBW-magazine sponsored fashion show at the Seattle Bon Marche…
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Read more: It’s not the diet. It’s YOU.
It’s not the diet. It’s YOU.
From a discussion of celebrity endorsements of diet plans comes this gem from Nutrisystem exec Stacie Mullen: “The dieting public understands that the dieter has a responsibility to comply with the program,” said Ms. Mullen, adding that if the dieter fails, “I don’t think the public blames the program the dieter was on.” And from Zalmi Duchman of the Fresh Diet: “If they don’t do good on it,…
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Read more: What’s Important?
What’s Important?
My mother was fat, though she lost weight shortly before she died. My father, by contrast, was always thin and muscular. Yes, he drank like the Navy seaman he’d been and smoked 1-2 packs a day, but he was strong and healthy. He gained some weight when he retired and quit smoking, but not much. Heck, he’s lost some in the last few years. Why? He wasn’t…
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Read more: Quick Question
Quick Question
About adding apple slices to Happy Meals (and reducing the size of fries): Also, for those who are over age 12: Is there any toy which would entice you to buy a Happy Meal for yourself?
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Read more: Want to cool off?
Want to cool off?
Come to Seattle. Seriously. It’s been 80F or above (26C) for 78 minutes since June 1. Eighteen hours and 48 minutes above 75F. Some folks are fine with this, others want more warmth, but compared to the rest of the US we’re nice and cool. So come on over. Don’t forget the umbrella. And a sweater.
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Read more: Head, Meet Desk
Head, Meet Desk
A friend tells me that he’s been diagnosed with hypothyroidism (TSH 7.5) and he’s starting on Synthroid (Levothyroxine). Google takes me to the NIH page on Levothyroxine. Right at the top is the following offset warning: Thyroid hormone should not be used to treat obesity in patients with normal thyroid function. Levothyroxine is ineffective for weight reduction in normal thyroid patients and may cause serious or life-threatening…
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