diet

I'm Fat and I'm Not Okay With It

I don't want to accept my body and I'm not ashamed to admit it.
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Healthy, diet, fat, file this one under posts i'll probably regret, weight, weight loss

Jun 14, 2012 at 11:30am | 886 comments

healthy

THINNERRR: The Ritual Cleanse Made Me Drop 8 Pounds (and I’m Still Losing Weight)

"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.
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Beauty, healthy, shoppables, the ritual cleanse, weight loss

Feb 23, 2012 at 4:00pm | 484 comments

diets

Please, Shut Up About Your Weight Loss Goals

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.
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Issues, diets, weight loss, work, eating disorders

Jan 10, 2013 at 2:00pm | 483 comments

pregnancy

I Spent $7,800 (and Counting) Trying to Lose the Baby Weight

That's nearly $100 per pound. Yes, I know. I know.
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Family Drama, pregnancy, weight loss, body image, post-baby bodies

Oct 23, 2012 at 12:30pm | 308 comments

butter porn

Diabetes is Not a Rad Diet Tip, and Other Thoughts About the Redemption of Paula Deen

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?
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Issues, butter porn, diabetes, diet, healthy, weight loss

Jun 28, 2012 at 3:00pm | 277 comments

diets

SEWING AN ABRASIVE PATCH TO YOUR TONGUE TO LOSE WEIGHT, And Nine Other Ridiculous Weight-Loss Gimmicks From The Past 100 Years

Wrap yourself in rubber, bring a clean change of underpants and get ready to VIBRATE!
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Issues, diets, fat, weight loss

Jun 13, 2013 at 1:00pm | 271 comments

fat

ASK LESLEY: How Can I Stop Believing That My Life Will Be Better If I'm Thin?

FAT IS NOT MAKING YOU UNHAPPY. All our accumulated cultural crap around bodies and expectations are.
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Issues, fat, ask lesley, body acceptance, weight loss

Jan 18, 2013 at 9:00am | 254 comments

losing weight

"You Were Prettier Before": 10 Things You Should Never Say to Someone 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.
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Relationships, losing weight, weight loss, body, healthy

May 3, 2013 at 1:30pm | 242 comments

dieting

How I Lost 10 Pounds in 10 Days, and Why I Will Never Do It Again

I went to buy Spanx, but since they won’t allow you to try Spanx on in the dressing rooms I had to buy three different sizes to ensure I would create the maximum amount of stomach suckage.
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Healthy, dieting, weight loss

Jun 7, 2013 at 3:30pm | 181 comments

ihtm

It Happened To Me Contest Entry: I Lost 98 Pounds By Dating Escorts

Diet, Exercise and Gigolos -- 
8 different companions, 20 dates in 13 months
 98 pounds/42.5 inches/12 dress sizes lost.
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It Happened To Me, IHTM, ihtm contest, ihtm raw, weight loss, weight, dating, body

Mar 5, 2013 at 5:00pm | 173 comments

ihtm contest

It Happened To Me Contest Entry: I Lost Over 100 Pounds And Sent My Type 2 Diabetes Into Remission

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.
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It Happened To Me, ihtm contest, ihtm raw, diabetes, remission, weight loss, body acceptance, healing

Feb 14, 2013 at 10:00am | 169 comments

julia kozerski

Me And This Photographer Both Look Like Melting Candles Under Our Clothes

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.
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Relationships, Julia Kozerski, loose skin, photography, weight loss

Jun 13, 2012 at 4:18pm | 167 comments

body acceptance

Adventures in Topamax: I'm on a Weight Loss Drug, But Not Because I Want to Lose Weight

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.
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Healthy, body acceptance, body consciousness, Topamax, weight loss

Aug 2, 2012 at 10:00am | 139 comments

fat

SURPRISE: New Study Finds That Being Fat Does Not Make You More Likely to Die

Also, underweight people have higher mortality rates than severely obese people. Astonished yet?
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Issues, fat, health, weight loss

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

weight loss

It Happened to Me: I Didn't Care About My Weight Until All My Friends Got Thin

There was something so insidious, so darkly threatening about those words: “the biggest."
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Issues, weight loss, self esteem, best friends

Jun 13, 2013 at 3:00pm | 103 comments

body

It Happened to Me: Gastric Bypass Was the Best Decision of My Life

I keep my weight loss surgery a secret, because as much as being fat is stigmatized, losing weight "the easy way" is too.
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It Happened To Me, body, gastric bypass, healthy, weight loss

May 9, 2012 at 2:00pm | 89 comments

size

Size 2 Through 18: Me and My Pants Take A Walk Down Memory Lane

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.
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Healthy, size, weight, body, weight loss

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

body image

I'm Done With Diets, But Are Diets Done With Me?

SPOILER ALERT: Not quite yet.
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Healthy, body image, diets, math, weight loss

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

body acceptance

One Week to WTF: Did I Get Skinnier Than All My Friends?

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.
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Healthy, body acceptance, books, diets, fad diets, I will eat all the ice cream, weight loss

Jul 27, 2012 at 8:59am | 66 comments

loose skin

I Got Radio Frequency Therapy to Tighten My Loose Skin

I wanted to show the process because, honestly, I love my stomach like this.
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Issues, loose skin, stomachs, weight loss

May 7, 2013 at 3:30pm | 62 comments

fat

Another Personal Trainer Gained and Lost 75 Pounds and All We Got Was this Lousy Story

Is this a trend now? And what is ANYONE really learning from these weird mad-scientist body experiments?
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Issues, fat, holley mangold, weight loss

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

diets

Smoothie of the Week: Green Coconut Morning Smoothie

Has your get up and go gotten up and gone? Check out my amazing morning smoothie.
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Healthy, diets, nautral food, raw food, raw good smoothies, smoothies, weight loss

Aug 29, 2012 at 1:30pm | 18 comments