Category: fat acceptance
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Quote(s) of the Day: Fat Acceptance
6 comments on Quote(s) of the Day: Fat AcceptanceThis is a movement about the basic and fundamental civil rights that all people deserve, something that has been stripped away from fat people due to fat phobia and discriminatory practices on an individual, cultural and institutional basis. — from Fat Waitress I write a lot about my life, because there’s a hell of a lot of disinformation out there about what it is to be superfat. …
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Weight Loss Expectations: NIH vs Popular Thought
What expectations do people have when they start a weight loss program? The Fantasy of Being Thin is very common, and usually isn’t about being less fat. It’s about being THIN. So this blurb from The Practical Guide: Identification, Evaluation, and Treatment of Overweight and Obesity in Adults, from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) guidelines on “obesity treatment” actually came as a bit of sanity…
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So, um, hi. How’s your weekend?
At the moment I’m in a fullish coffeehouse listening to Vixy & Tony perform Seanan McGuire‘s Wicked Girls Saving Ourselves :) I have the remains of my mocha and just finished an openfaced pesto-and-cheddar sandwich. Earlier I went to the Seattle Sounders game downtown. Since the man of the house works a little less than a mile from the stadium we can save on parking costs by…
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Question: Friends?
This was originally on Formspring — after Heidi’s post on friendship I thought might be interesting over here. My question–are most of your friends fat or thin? Do you find “fat” to be common ground? Not currently. Most of my local friends are average-sized. (Of course, most people are average-sized. I think it’s a math thing. :) They may be technically / clinically overweight or obese, but…
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Plus-size Shops: Thin Models, Strange Names
This is something we get so used to seeing that after a while it hardly registers. Sociological Images did a great post with images from Woman Within showing how size 12-14 clothes on size 8-10 models looks … really loose and shapeless. This is why I’m glad to see Lane Bryant using some larger models — a size 16 or 18 is probably going to fit the…
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Why Don’t I Diet?
Simple: There isn’t a proven, permanent method of weight loss that works for all (or even most) people. Yes, most dieters lose 5-10% of their body weight in the first few months. They then regain some or all in the long term. This has been shown by a number of studies, including studies run by diet companies. (PDF) Depending on how long dieters are tracked after the…
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Thankful Thursday
[a not-always-weekly exercise in gratitude] Things I am thankful for this week: Lesley of Fatshionista is in Newsweek, and it’s being read. Went to the Sounders game with the man of the house on Saturday, parked 1/2 mile from the stadium (cheaper parking) and had no problems with the walking. The game was fun, too! Survived a trip to the local REI for new walking shoes. (I’ve never…
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Taxes as a metaphor
So I was thinking about tax day. Not just income taxes, but “taxes” in the metaphorical sense. Erin at A Dress A Day once wrote, prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked “female”. A lot of people assume women will do whatever they need to to look pretty – like a tax. Society throws lots of expectations out there, and we absorb…
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Quote of the Day
From an Alternet article focusing on Linda Bacon’s book Health At Every Size, Jamie Oliver’s new show, and Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” campaign: [R]esearch shows that people of all sizes have similar diets, but it only manifests as weight gain in some of us. People today eat more calorie-dense, nutrient-poor convenience foods than Americans did in the past. How we eat also plays a role, as eating while…
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March Round-Up
This is partly for me, and partly to show folks a little of what’s going on “behind the curtain”. I’ve considered calling it “Best of Living 400lbs” but I’m not sure it’s really the best articles…what do you think? March’s most popular posts: On Acceptance Why paying attention to weight can be good “Every Little Bit Helps!” Really? Depends Sometimes Exercise isn’t Fun 400lb Women are Rare….…
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On Acceptance
Fat acceptance is about accepting my body, even though it’s fat. It doesn’t mean that everyone else is automatically OK with my body. I know a lot of people don’t accept my fat. Some of them are quite comfortable telling me that it’s not OK for me to be fat. Sometimes that bothers me. But more often it doesn’t. See, I learned something about myself when I…
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Confession
I am dependent on food.* I truly believe that I need food to continue living.** Further, despite weighing 401lbs (yes, I own a scale) I eat every day. Even multiple times a day.*** Oh: and I think eating food when I’m hungry is a healthy and normal thing. Bwah! Clearly I am the destroyer of worlds! *Yes, I’m making fun of MeMe Roth‘s statement that “we’re behaviorally…
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Quote of the Day: Fat Acceptance Made Exercise Easier
One of the things I like exploding people’s heads with is the fact that embracing FA made it *easier* for me to exercise. Before, exercise was always this horrible, dreary thing I “had” to do so that I’d be “thin,” and if I didn’t get “thin” I was failing, which made me not want to exercise. Once I accepted fat as okay, exercise became a lot more…
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Things Worth Reading: Epidemics and Safeway’s Wellness Incentives
From ABC Australia comes Australia’s disordered eating epidemic: [W]e are not in the midst of an obesity epidemic, as it is often claimed. We are in the midst of an epidemic of disordered eating. The solutions prescribed to combat obesity are often the same behaviours we as practitioners are diagnosing in those suffering from eating disorders. The comments are a mix of good and bad, but don’t…
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Thankful Thursday
[a not-always-weekly exercise in gratitude] 1) Orange-mango-banana smoothies, or at least the one I had on the way home today. I seem to be coming down with something — headache, a bit of a sore throat, some coughing and sneezing, very little appetite. I left work a bit early because I was feeling worse. Partway home it occurred to me that a smoothie might make my throat…
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Random Items from My Day
Still here. Still weigh the same as I did before the holidays. (That’s simply a fact, BTW, not a success or failure. But it’s not what people expect, even though it’s incredibly average.) Excerpt from IM: Me: My dad called just as Good Eats started today. It was an episode on Alton’s recent weight loss and how he switched from a “calorie-dense” diet to a “nutrient-dense” diet (which…
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Oprah Online: Article on fat acceptance
The Oprah magazine article I posted about earlier, by (mother) Robin Marantz Henig and (daughter) Jess Zimmerman, is online now. So far the comments are good too, but there’s only two of them, so I’d be cautious anyway.
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