loose skin
I wanted to show the process because, honestly, I love my stomach like this.
losing weight
When you deal with your weight loss issues, you suddenly trigger Other People’s Weight Loss Issues, which means that you suddenly have to deal with their shit as well as your own.
ihtm
Diet, Exercise and Gigolos -- 
8 different companions, 20 dates in 13 months
 98 pounds/42.5 inches/12 dress sizes lost.
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.
size
It felt like the ultimate betrayal when the 190-something pound body that I had come to love and feel beautiful in started to melt away.
Louise Hung in

Feb 1, 2013 at 11:00am | 76 comments

fat
FAT IS NOT MAKING YOU UNHAPPY. All our accumulated cultural crap around bodies and expectations are.
diets
My office has just launched a brand new weight loss incentive. While participation is not mandatory (thank god), its presence has made a discernible impact around the office.
pregnancy
diets
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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
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.
fat
Also, underweight people have higher mortality rates than severely obese people. Astonished yet?
Lesley in

Jul 11, 2012 at 3:00pm | 118 comments

body image
SPOILER ALERT: Not quite yet.
Emily in

Jul 10, 2012 at 12:00pm | 68 comments

butter porn
Everybody was super mean to Paula Deen when she announced she had type 2 diabetes. But now she's lost weight so we can all be nice to her again! Yay?
diet
I don't want to accept my body and I'm not ashamed to admit it.
julia kozerski
Although I'd been miserable at 260 pounds, after I'd lost the weight, I found myself wondering what was worse: to be fat, or to be living in this strange, droopy car-wreck of a body.
fat
Is this a trend now? And what is ANYONE really learning from these weird mad-scientist body experiments?
Lesley in

Jun 5, 2012 at 5:01pm | 53 comments

body
I keep my weight loss surgery a secret, because as much as being fat is stigmatized, losing weight "the easy way" is too.
healthy
"Healthy" gimmick-y diet-y stuff is not my thing, or so I thought—until I juice fasted for a week on this special program. And it sort of...turned my life around.
body image
Here’s the thing: I know people mean well when they compliment you on your weight loss. But what if said weight loss is totally unintentional?
Veronica in

Feb 3, 2012 at 10:00am | 0 comments

denim
If you buy cheap denim, you know how quick the half-life is. You buy them, they hug your ass like a champ for the first five washings, and then the slow process of jean death begins.
crazy diets