Category: fat acceptance
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Spotted at the Bellevue Barnes & Noble
6 comments on Spotted at the Bellevue Barnes & NobleSorry for the crappy cellphone photo, but I was thrilled to see it FACING OUT. :) Yes, it was in the diet section. I reviewed Lessons from the Fat-o-Sphere here.
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Rethinking Thin and Mindless Eating
This Reason review of both Gina Kolata’s Rethinking Thin: The New Science of Weight Loss— and the Myths and Realities of Dieting and Brian Wansink’s Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think does something one doesn’t often see in writing about the efficacy of diets: It recognizes that losing 10lbs is nothing like losing 100lbs. In Rethinking Thin, Kolata, a veteran New York Times science reporter, focuses on a…
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Today’s Logic Puzzle
In 2005, sources reported that: 3% to 5% of US adults were morbidly obese (BMI > 40) 25% of US adults were obese (BMI > 30) 66% of US adults were overweight OR obese (BMI > 25) Yet newspapers and television tend to illustrate articles about the “OMG Obesity Panic!!1!! Most Americans are fat!!!” with images of extremely fat people like myself. Are they perhaps afraid that MOST…
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HAES in the News
Marianne Kirby & Kate Harding are interviewed in Newsweek’s blog The Human Condition about their book and HAES. Hopefully it will make some people think! In the UK, The Guardian had a piece about Health At Every Size. As Big Fat Blog notes, it’s all HAES 101 stuff, but that’s why it’s good to get it out in the mainstream anyway. (Oh, and I would avoid the…
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Lessons from the Fat-o-Sphere
Part of me wants to read (not skim) Lessons from the Fat-o-Sphere and let it marinate over the weekend and then post a comprehensive, reasoned review.
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I’m Fat! So?
I hadn’t re-read FAT!SO? : Because You Don’t Have to Apologize for Your Size in years, but I remembered it was fun, and fun sounded good.
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Happy International No-Diet Day
Today’s the day (or will be soon). Anyone have plans? :) (I’m mostly going to spend it at work…deadlines… )
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Super Obesity!
Apparently “morbid obesity” isn’t obese enough! Some now refer to people with a BMI of 50 or more as “super obese”. For some reason I’m finding this amazingly humorous. Suddenly I want a Supergirl costume! :) Though seriously, it does make you wonder. Medical personnel spent years cautioning me that morbid obesity was OMG so much worse than just plain obesity. Is being “superfat” somehow less deadly…
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Diversity Quotes
If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon. – George Aiken My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. – Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
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Thankful Thursday
A little exercise in gratitude… 1) The man of the house got his car window fixed today, after it was smashed yesterday… 2) …and the thieves only got away with maybe $15 worth of electronics.* 3) Got the deck cleaned up a bit last weekend. Tomorrow night I’ll be digging out more of the furniture cushions and sweeping again for our first barbecue :) 4)…
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Fat Acceptance in the News
Obese anti-dieting crusaders lead charge for overweight civil rights – not bad, though as Kate noted she’s co-author of Lessons from the Fat-o-spherewith Marianne Kirby. TV host: Style could boost healthier image – mostly about What Not To Wear but includes a few paragraphs about Dr Linda Bacon’s book Health At Every Size. Club nights for plus-size Valley patrons prove popular – about nightlife promoters in Long Beach and…
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Friday Fun: Afternoon Snack
I spent the last hour at my desk, knowing I wanted a snack, but not sure if I how hungry I was. Then I knew what I wanted but didn’t want to take the time to go to the kitchen and microwave it. I had a piece of chocolate, some snack crackers….nope. Finally I sent off a couple projects and headed into the kitchen for what…
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Clipping: Size Doesn’t Matter in Diversity Woman
Size Doesn’t Matter (PDF), published in Diversity Woman magazine, discusses size discrimination in the workplace. Some of it’s pretty grim, such as the statistic that “[w]omen who are classified as obese generally earn 12 percent less than thin women” and are less likely to be hired. It also notes that “biggest loser” contests are not helpful, and has tips on how to create a “size-diverse workplace”, including: Create…
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Ah, the 70s…
Not to detract from Fillyjonk’s post, but this rant of Meowser’s on the 70s is spot-on. I didn’t know any vegetarians in the 70s. Yes, “whole wheat” bread was weird, and veggies were limp. A “diet plate” was a hamburger patty, cottage cheese, and a tomato slice. Yes, the diagnosis criteria for diabetes and heart disease and obesity were a lot higher then. Yes, people smoked everywhere…
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Vanilla
I’m not sexy but I really want to be I hear that’s normal for my demographic I don’t look good in skirts and even wedges hurt my feet […] A nicely balanced budget’s not so thrilling Courtesy’s outdated and sobriety is lame Reliability is not appealing But I don’t know any other way to be I love people and I want them to love me My…
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Letting Go
One thing about growing up: you learn how to let go of things, too. Sometimes it’s all happy, sometimes it’s bittersweet, sometimes it’s an ugly, ugly loss. Sometimes it’s “I let it go” and sometimes it’s “It was ripped away from me” – but it’s gone, and you have to deal with that. What brought this to my mind today was the song Sycamore Tree by singer/writer/cartoonist Seanan…
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