Category: FatnessInGeneral
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A year or two ago …
4 comments on A year or two ago …Two years ago, I wrote 2 of the most-read posts of this blog: on stress incontinence and jock itch. I worked hard on both of those posts. I was a bit embarrassed to admit they were problems I deal with, but I also felt that writing a bad post on either would be worse than not writing them at all. Take of that what you will….…
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A Year or Two Ago…
Just over a year ago we were remembering the deaths of people who were “too fat” to evacuate after Katrina. Later that week I wrote a post on buying plane tickets that still gets a number of hits. Two years ago I wrote one of this blog’s most-googled/viewed posts. (Why “fat woman sex” is one of the perennials of the search terms is not for me to answer.) I…
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I’m squishy, but I’m NOT obese
You may have seen today’s Pickles. Transcript: Panel 1: Nelson asks Earl: Grampa, are you obese? Panel 2: Earl: Obese? No, I’m NOT obese. Panel 3: Nelson: [pokes tummy, with a “squish” noise] Panel 4: Earl: I’m squishy, but I’m NOT obese. This illustrates much of the “obesity” discussion. Earl knows he’s fat. Earl assumes he’s overweight, not obese. He forgets that the definition of “obesity” was…
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When You Get Used To People Not Having Your Size…
…you don’t expect them to have your size. It’s like, I don’t know, logic. As Red No 3 put it (emphasis added): See, what’s going on here [at Saks] is a bit of product testing. This is only being launched in one location. They see how it goes, and then decide how to expand. Its like Old Navy a few years ago when they expanded plus-sizes in…
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On not buying clothes
I mentioned in my last post that I haven’t bought clothes in a while. My previous clothing purchase was a Sounders green item to wear to Sounders games, bought at my husband’s urging. I bought bras in February. In September 2009 I replaced 3 worn-out pairs of knit pants and some bras. July 2009 I bought two knit tops that were thinner and cooler than others I…
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Jeans and big bellies
Today I am wearing jeans. This is abnormal. It didn’t used to be — like many American girls, I grew up wearing jeans. After college, working at a major software company, jeans were like a uniform. I wasn’t one the guys, but wearing the same clothes helped me fit in: jeans, a t-shirt or sweatshirt, and athletic shoes. As I got bigger, finding jeans became…
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Today’s Logic Fail
Researchers found that kids who have higher BMIs tend to do a little worse on treadmill tests than thinner kids…if they’re from “lower- or middle-income neighborhoods.” The difference goes away if they’re from the more affluent neighborhoods. Lead researcher Dr. Tajinder P. Singh, of Children’s Hospital Boston, speculates that [K]ids from affluent neighborhoods have healthier lifestyles — better diets, more opportunities for exercise — so that even…
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No, really?
USA Today discovered that — guess what! — fat kids are more likely to be bullied. Researchers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor analyzed the bullying incidents of 821 children ages 8 to 11. The study, reported today online in Pediatrics, found that obese children were more likely to be bullied than normal-weight peers, regardless of gender, race, socioeconomic status, school demographic profile, social skills or academic achievement.…
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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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Virtual Window Shopping: Hourglass, Apple, Pineapple, Pear…
Shades of Right Fit Jeans! Junonia has come out with a series of sport pants in 4 different cuts, in sizes 1X to 6X, and 3 different lengths. Nice, eh? Well…sort of. You see, they’re not giving any custom sizing for them — just talking about cut in the description. Has it perhaps not occurred to them that things like “garment waistband measurement” or “garment hip measurement”…
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Disney World
As hinted yesterday, my November vacation was Disney World! For a week! Yes, it was fantastic. We stayed at Port Orleans French Quarter, visited in-laws, did Mission: Space, Soarin’, ate Moroccan food, laughed at Ellen & Bill Nye, geeked out at Spaceship Earth, loved Big Thunder Mountain and Test Track, enjoyed lunch with an Imagineer, and so on. The man of the house got to ride the remade…
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MiB Sale
(This is the image from their email. No, the “click here to join” stuff doesn’t work. Clicking goes to the clearance section of their site.)
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Virtual Window Shopping: Sanctuarie Va-Voom
[Looking at supersize / extended size clothing which is to say, clothing I can wear. Preferably modeled by fat people.] Sanctuarie’s princess-seamed dress and wrap might work for Valentine’s Day. Or clubbing. I’m not feeling quite enough love to buy a dress that would require a strapless bra, but it is nice to see a dressy dress that’s machine washable! (The description emphasizes that this dress is “definitely…
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Supersize Sales – Making it Big & Junonia
Making it Big has an “Online Warehouse Sale” through midnight Monday night (Pacific time). Most items are priced $19.95 – $29.95, but there are things at $9.95 too. Junonia is offering 40% off everything through midnight Sunday (Central time). http://www.junonia.com/home.htm?offer=11279
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