Living ~400lbs

Is fat hysteria damaging?

fat acceptance, Stress

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Well, now, let’s think about this. Besides the negative affects of weight bias, besides the negative effects of the resulting stress, besides the fact that trying to lose weight often results in gaining more, there’s this little gem: [I]n one 1960s test, when hospital patients were given sugar water and told it would make them vomit, 80% of them did. – WSJ This is called a “Nocebo…
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Day in the Life: Yoga Night

DayInTheLife, Exercise, yoga

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[One of the occasional series of posts about my typical day.] Tonight was yoga night. After work I go into an empty, industrially-carpeted room of the local community college with my yoga mat, blocks, and strap. We always end with laying down and a brief guided meditation. What varies is almost everything in between. Sure, we always do stretches, work our core muscles, and do a few…
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Medical Records Out My Ears…

DayInTheLife, health, Me, My health

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[One of the occasional series of posts about my typical day.] Or, Annual Physical update the 2nd (and hopefully final :) What I didn’t mention before was that the day of my annual I was near the tail end of my period. It wasn’t bad enough that we couldn’t do my pap smear (yes, this 400lb 42-year-old woman has a sex life) but it did mean my…
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This week’s Cathy

News, Size-Positive Art

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The comic strip Cathy debuted in 1976. I was 10 years old and just starting to read newspapers on my own. It was often the only image of a professional, self-reliant young woman I saw, and not just on the comics page. Sometimes she was unsure about how to proceed, but she never moved back with her parents or relied on them to pay the bills. …
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It wasn’t intentional…

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…Ellie suggested I use a fixed-width scheme. So I looked for one that had 3 columns, and would let me customize the header, and … ended up with the same one Shapely Prose has. Hee?
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Fun on the Bus

DayInTheLife

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Or not. Yesterday morning, 7:48am, I’m wondering when the 7:45am bus will arrive. Or was it really a 7:45am bus? The stop I was at has a big board listing all the expected arrival times for all the buses. So I’m standing there, right next to the stop, double-checking the time my bus was arrive – and I see my bus go by. I jump and wave…
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Applying “Pro-Choice” to Fat Acceptance

Dieting/WLS, pro-choice

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I came to fat acceptance by reading BBW magazine in college. Yes, fashion articles, but also articles on how weight cycling is bad for you and reporting on studies that show dieting tends to lead to weight gain in the long term. I knew that every time I had dieted to lose weight – which I’d done all through jr high and high school – I had…
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Day in the Life: After Work

DayInTheLife, Exercise

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[One of the occasional series of posts about my typical day.] My after-work commute is a reverse of my morning commute: walk to the bus stop, take a couple buses, walk to my car, drive home. There is one notable difference, though, and that’s how much I walk. There are 3 bus stops I can choose: On the boulevard bordering my office park, a bare .11 miles…
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Book Review: Dying to be Thin

Books

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Dying to Be Thin: A Fat City Mystery by Kathryn Lilley. Genre/Category: Girl Reporter turns Amateur Detective in a diet center comedy. Setup: 26-year-old Kate Gallagher is an award-winning TV News producer with a camera-ready face but a behind-the-camera (size 16) body. She wants to be a reporter, so when she’s laid off from her job in Boston, she checks into a diet clinic in Durham, NC…
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W00t, w00t I say!!!!

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Lessons from the Fat-o-sphere: Quit Dieting and Declare a Truce with Your Body, by Kate Harding of Shapely Prose and Marianne Kirby aka The Rotund, is available for pre-order on Amazon. :)
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