Why are we so freakin' stingy with our sympathy when it comes to "enormous" fat women? What the hell is wrong with us?
fat
fat
Spoiler alert: we're still married, and I'm still fat. This is not an article about how to help your spouse to lose weight.
fat
Why do we allow a number to hold so much power over our self-perception?
eating disorders
In the third installment of a never-ending series, I attempt to talk Emily out of going back to Weight Watchers.
Lesley in
Issues,
eating disorders,
diets,
body acceptance,
weight watchers,
radical anti-diet extremism,
friendly advice
Oct 15, 2012 at 2:30pm | 292 comments
body acceptance
Just when we thought it was safe to come out of the water, or in my case, from the bottom of the KFC bucket.
fat
FAT IS NOT MAKING YOU UNHAPPY. All our accumulated cultural crap around bodies and expectations are.
body image
UGH, I’m getting all serious again. Sorry, but stomach flu just isn’t conducive to beauty writing. This will be brief!
Gabi Rivera-Morales in
Issues,
body image,
healthy,
eating disorders,
body acceptance,
doctor's visits,
when doctors are assholes
Dec 31, 2012 at 11:00am | 253 comments
fat
The way folks talk, you'd think fat people and skinny people are locked in a battle to the death over the acceptability of bodies and that, Highlander style, in the end there can be only one.
bloggers
Skinny women are more often thought of as mean, controlling and superficial, while fat women are seen as lazy, sloppy and slow.
fashion
Lashing out at thin women to tell them they aren’t wanted isn’t the way to address disparities and prejudices in fashion.
s.e. smith in
Issues,
fashion,
modeling,
class war,
body diversity,
fatty fatty two by four,
body acceptance,
body image
Apr 4, 2013 at 2:30pm | 186 comments
body acceptance
I’ll freely admit I would be super interested in a fitness environment that didn’t treat me like a freaking disease.
ihtm contest
I knew that I hadn’t been taking care of myself, but this was the most unpleasant wake-up call of my life. I didn’t know if I could change my fate, but I vowed to try.
weight
BREAKING: It turns out YOU DESERVE TO ESTABLISH HEALTHY BOUNDARIES and to HAVE THOSE BOUNDARIES RESPECTED. Really!
body acceptance
All of my doctors assure me that the weight loss will slow down eventually, and then I can begin to settle into my new body. I have an irrational fear that they are wrong -- that this weight loss will never, ever end, that I will shrink away into nothingness and disappear.
body acceptance
"I do not show my upper arms in public," she confided. "The three-quarter sleeve is my jam." At the time, I felt kind of bad, thinking that she should be happy with her body. And this has remained my policy... for everyone but myself.
adolescence
From fourth grade on, I looked like I was about 25 years old.
body acceptance
No, it's not a delicious pastry; it's a little roll of fat under my right butt cheek.
body acceptance
Have I ever told you guys about that time I got married? PLUS: JETPACKS!
fat acceptance
In the greatest depths of my body issues, I refused to sleep with anyone who wasn’t at least somewhat overweight.
plus sizes
In other words, I am personally helping reduce our cultural obsession with thinness by putting pictures of my fat self up on xoJane all the time. YAY ME.
fat
Exhortations in favor of "loving your body" are totally overrated and can even be damaging -- but not for the reasons you might think.
body acceptance
Fad diet book, "Six Weeks to OMG: Get Skinnier Than All Your Friends" says you will lose weight if you take cold showers. Is it true? Also, Wii Fit is an asshole.
