Weight loss - xoJane

I Got Radio Frequency Therapy to Tighten My Loose Skin

Kristin Booker — Tue, 07 May 2013 15:30:00 -0400

I wanted to show the process because, honestly, I love my stomach like this.

"You Were Prettier Before": 10 Things You Should Never Say to Someone Losing Weight

Kristin Booker — Fri, 03 May 2013 13:30:00 -0400

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.

It Happened To Me Contest Entry: I Lost 98 Pounds And Fell In Love By Dating Escorts

IHTM CONTESTANT — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 17:00:00 -0500

Diet, Exercise and Gigolos --  8 different companions, 20 dates in 13 months  98 pounds/42.5 inches/12 dress sizes lost.

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

IHTM CONTESTANT — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:00:00 -0500

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

Louise Hung — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:00:00 -0500

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.

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

Lesley — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 09:00:00 -0500

FAT IS NOT MAKING YOU UNHAPPY. All our accumulated cultural crap around bodies and expectations are.

Please, Shut Up About Your Weight Loss Goals

Haley Cue — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 14:00:00 -0500

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.

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

Tracie Egan Morrissey of Jezebel — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:30:00 -0400

That's nearly $100 per pound. Yes, I know. I know.

Smoothie of the Week: Green Coconut Morning Smoothie

Camila-Catalina Fernandez — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 13:30:00 -0400

Has your get up and go gotten up and gone? Check out my amazing morning smoothie.

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

Sarah Eyre — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 10:00:24 -0400

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.

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

Somer Sherwood — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 08:59:28 -0400

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.

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

Lesley — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 15:00:29 -0400

Also, underweight people have higher mortality rates than severely obese people. Astonished yet?

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

Emily — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 12:00:21 -0400

SPOILER ALERT: Not quite yet.

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

Lesley — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 15:00:28 -0400

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?

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

Daisy — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 11:30:27 -0400

I don't want to accept my body and I'm not ashamed to admit it.

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

Emily — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 16:18:54 -0400

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.

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

Lesley — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 17:01:20 -0400

Is this a trend now? And what is ANYONE really learning from these weird mad-scientist body experiments?

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

Rachael — Wed, 09 May 2012 14:00:21 -0400

I keep my weight loss surgery a secret, because as much as being fat is stigmatized, losing weight "the easy way" is too.

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

Cat — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:00:15 -0500

"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.

Stop Telling Me I Lost Weight

Veronica — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:00:10 -0500

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?