Category: FatnessInGeneral
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Virtual Window Shopping: Nifty Prices
[Looking at supersize / extended size clothing which is to say, clothing I can wear. Preferably modeled by fat people.] Mostly with the virtual window shopping I’ve been looking at women’s clothes that I could wear* and that I think are really really nifty. This week it’s stuff I could wear, like enough to wear, […]
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NYT: Comparing Fatness and Shortness
Daniel Engber asks in the New York Times Sunday Magazine why the “reduce obesity” drumbeat doesn’t also spawn a “reduce shortness” drumbeat. We’ve long known that stature can serve as a crude measure of public health. If everyone came from a perfect home, the average height across the population would be a function of our […]
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Health At Every Size “whether you’re 100lbs or 500lbs”
The LA Times ran a couple articles on Health At Every Size this weekend. Diets? Not for these folks Do extra pounds always equal extra risk? One bit that from the second article gave me a smile: “You can’t know just based on a person’s size whether that person has good or poor health habits,” […]
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Window Shopping: Sweaters
[Looking at supersize / extended size clothing, which is to say, clothing I can wear. Preferably modeled by fat people] After weeks of highs in the 70s and 80s we’re suddenly experiencing … fall. I even wore a sweater to work today. I’ve been looking forward to sweater season this year. Suddenly I don’t […]
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Football Players and Fat
It’s September and the American football season has started. Considering how fat people are reviled in America, it’s fascinating how the biggest football players still receive the cachet of being professional athletes. I started thinking of this when I realized that the treadmills at Fitness World* allow me to enter my actual weight. Then the mini-gym at […]
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Shopping: Bras, Bras, Bras
(“Bras, Bras, Bras” to be whined in an intonation similar to the infamous “Marcia, Marcia, Marcia”) Sometimes I wonder if the bra I wear most is as supportive as they feel or if I’m just really used to them—in fact, I think a lot of bra comfort has to do with what you’re used to and […]
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Believe in Your Limitations, and They’re Yours
Last week I posted some statistics about height and weight. Partly it’s because the statistics surprised me a bit — I thought women were taller and heavier, on average, than they are. I also thought it would be an interesting bit of data to discuss and think about. There’s something else, though. I accepted the […]
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Virtual Window Shopping Swimsuits
[Looking at supersize / extended size clothing, which is to say, clothing I can wear. Preferably modeled by fat people] I’m looking forward to a sunny vacation in November. So naturally I’m looking at swimsuits. Even though I already have 4 suits. Okay, if you don’t want to know why I have so many […]
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Supersize Sales and Sports Jerseys
FYI: MiB has marked down some styles (including the brushstroke tee I was ogling earlier) and is offering free US shipping or $10 credit on international. Use code FS49 at checkout. Expires Monday 9/14 at 11:59pm Pacific time. (MiB’s size range covers 2x-8x; not all styles come in the largest size. I am in the […]
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Virtual Window-Shopping
[Looking at supersize / extended size clothing, which is to say, clothing I can wear. Preferably modeled by fat people] Some things I’m thinking of but not sure I need enough to buy: A purple patterned flannel shirt – Not a “typical” flannel shirt, so I’d feel less 90s in it than my plaid ones. But […]
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Death, not Evacuation
This is painful. I am grateful that my ARNP found my vitamin deficiencies and that I can treat them, for the surgeries and drugs that have given family members longer lives. But right now I feel I could never leave anyone I loved alone in a hospital.
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How Do You Comfort Sore Muscles?
As littem noted today, sore muscles are a big reason to not exercise. It’s not uncommon to start a workout program and end up pretty sore the day after exercising. (Or to end up sore after going dancing or walking all over Disneyland.) What to do? First, the bad news: It’s supposed to hurt some […]
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Fat Women Feel Uncomfortable Exercising. Film at 11.
This isn’t new, but since I’ve been posting about exercise recently I thought it was relevant. A Temple University study of 278 women who were enrolled in an exercise-encouragement program comes this gem on comfort levels with exercise: The women completed a questionnaire when the study began and during three- and 12-month follow-up assessments. The […]
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Newsweek: Fat and Healthy
Lesley at Fatshionista linked to a good Newsweek article on fat hatred. While reading it I noticed a related web exclusive by Daniel Heimpel* called Fat and Healthy: Why It’s Possible. Heimpel discusses some of the research on being fat and healthy (or not), citing Katherine Flegal’s study which found that being overweight decreased […]
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