Freedom

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Freedom from Pain

The last week has been a rough one here in JeninCanada-Land, thanks to my pesky gallbladder. Last Thursday night it started acting up and it didn’t really stop until I got the darn thing out on Monday. Thursday night, Friday night (is 3:30am night or morning?), Saturday afternoon and evening (until I went down to […]



via Fierce, Freethinking Fatties http://fiercefatties.com/2013/08/30/freedom

Aerobic Exercise Burns Fat All on Its Own (even if you don’t lose weight)

Trigger warning: This post is about the belief that exercise is for weight loss. This article is another of those “No shit, Sherlock” moments: In obese teenage girls, bwoth aerobic exercise and resistance training were effective at reducing total fat — even if the girls didn’t cut calories or lose weight, researchers found. WTF is […]



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Now Accepting Donations

Below is what I have posted on my tumblr, it not only explains why there has been a long absence from writing posts on this blog but also where I have been the last year or so. I’ve really found a home on twitter and tumblr, but I want to start writing longer posts in […]



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Incredible Edible Hate —

Trigger warning: This post is about the violent lengths to which some haters go. About 20 years ago, when I was a kid, my mom went for one of her regular runs through our neighborhood when a car full of teenagers screamed “DYKE!” as they passed. I remember her agonizing over the experience, wondering if […]



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From the Recovery Room

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The Fat Girl and the Cloak of Invisibility

Over the last couple of months, I’ve realized that I really am my own toughest critic. My first novel was published in July, but even the accomplishment of a lifelong dream has come with bouts and rounds of fear and anxiety. Every positive review comes with an excuse that diminishes it. Every less-than-great review sinks […]



via Fierce, Freethinking Fatties http://fiercefatties.com/2013/08/27/the-fat-girl-and-the-cloak-of-invisibility

Interview Outfit

Interview Outfit: Eshakti satin blouse with diagonal double ruffle, black LB slacks, pearls and sass I had an exciting interview Monday afternoon on the Apple campus. It wasn’t a position working for Apple, but with them. Eh, it’s complicated. Anyway, the interview was over so fast that I have no idea how it went. I [...]



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the HAES® files: Workplace Wellness—What can we do?

By Fall Ferguson, JD, MA I and others writing for this blog have pointed out some significant problems with our current approach to workplace wellness. Employers have indicated in recent polls that they intend to increase their use of coercive incentives and penalties in workplace wellness programs/initiatives. As of January 1, the Affordable Care Act […]



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Placenta Accreta, Part One: What Is Accreta?

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Scales Ain't Shit

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Conspiracy Theory!

I like conspiracy theories. I don’t mean the-government-is-sending-out-signals-over-the-airwaves-to-penetrate-our-thoughts kind of conspiracies, but the ones that say things like “Big Auto companies destroyed electric transportation” or “The US hired hundreds of Nazis after WWII” or even “The KGB was involved in Kennedy’s assassination… by spreading conspiracy theories.” With that in mind, this article has been floating […]



via Fierce, Freethinking Fatties http://fiercefatties.com/2013/08/26/conspiracy-theory

No post, positive picture

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Gastric bypass - the holy grail of weight loss surgery?

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Really Mr. Gunn?

via Nudemuse...daily nattering. http://blog.nudemuse.org/2013/08/really-mr-gunn.html

Teaching Kids Empathy

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A Little Truthiness.

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Fat Chat

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What’s happening with fat poz blogs?

Jiji writes: Well, I guess Notes from the Fatosphere is dead. Maybe it’s a positive for me as I’ve decided that all of this fat acceptance stuff is bad science. You see, I used to read Notes daily and it seemed like there were just so many resources saying that no matter what I try, […]



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Fatshion: Date Night!

Last night was a date night. My boyfriend text the night before that he missed me and that he wanted to get together (*Squee*). I knew time would be limited and figured it’d be just dinner. I had a lot going on yesterday applying for jobs and getting some other things in order (laundry, etc). [...]



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We get angry letters sometimes....

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Kat's First Birthday

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Broke Femme Finds!

I am part of a femmes group on Facebook and I love how they share tips and advice and product reviews. I am constantly inspired and delighted by what happens in that group. I thought I would share some of my own cheap and easy finds that keep me going on those tough days or [...]



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*TW* Hiding Abuse

**Trigger Warning for talk of physical abuse** ******************* ********** ****** *** * I haven’t talked about my own abuse survival in awhile. It’s not that I ever forget, but there are times when it seems so long ago that it’s as if it was in a book instead of real life. Then I’m going about [...]



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My Special Diet

Trigger warning: Discussion of how some have appropriated veganism for weight loss. Recently, Jen wrote a post about her need to change her diet in response to some gallbladder issues and her fear that people would assume she was attempting to lose weight. Jen, I totally hear you as I’m in a similar boat. Being […]



via Fierce, Freethinking Fatties http://fiercefatties.com/2013/08/20/my-special-diet

The Great Fat Debate

We often hear about “debates” about fat activism Though I often take such opportunities to get the word out about Size Acceptance and Health at Every Size, there’s something that I want to make clear. There should be no debate. The reason that civil rights in the United States have been and continue to be […]



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Different Worlds

No Blog post next week. Second vacation coming up! While doing research on plus size shopping for my book, I walked into a store looked at the outrageous prices, saw the look the sales woman gave me, the What the...



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Fatphobic Tango?

No matter how great I’m feeling or how far I’ve come in my own self acceptance journey, there is still this one thing that irks me to no end and can have me go from calm to cantankerous in no time at all. I’m not sure what to call it, though I kind of want [...]



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Big Bother —

One month ago today, my wife and I were listening to Here and Now on NPR when we heard this interview with author Lionel Shriver, author of the novel Big Brother. The first thing I noticed was graphic descriptions of the 400-pound main character, Edison, as read by Shriver: It took some doing to get […]



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Legend of Zelda RPG

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And So It Is.

I have been trying to figure out a way to eloquently say all of this for a while now but I never know where to start. In short, my partner and I broke up in late June of this year. … Continue reading →



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Body Positive Performances!

Hi there! I’ve been seeing more and more fat positive and body positive performance pieces lately. Some of these have been circuiting the Internetz for a while, but I thought I’d share them with you to give you a bit of inspiration this week. Here are a few of my favorites in no particular order. [...]



via Body Love Wellness http://www.bodylovewellness.com/2013/08/19/body-positive-performances/

My Big Fat Vacation

Some fat-related things I did or that happened on my recent vacation: I went on a nature walk about IDing ferns. I may have been the fattest person there, in a group of about a dozen. There was one man who had a larger belly than me but probably a lower BMI. I was also […]



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Cesarean Wound Complications: A Reason to Avoid CS in Women of Size

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To Boldy Go

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When Life is Hard You Have to Change…

Yesterday my laptop crashed not one, not twice, not even three times. No, my laptop crashed 9 TIMES, yesterday! This isn’t the first time it’s crashed on me, but certainly not so many times in the same day. A few days ago while talking with my special geek, he asked if I’d gotten around to [...]



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How Could It Be Worse?

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Gingeroid: 1) ginger-like, 2) more fun than a hemorrhoid

Our second new blogging candidate is Gingeroid. Hello, fatosphere! My name is Melanie, long time lurker and first time poster. This blog, along with Fat Nutritionist and Dances With Fat have done wonders for my journey to body acceptance. I’ve learned why dieting is futile, where to find awesome plus-sized clothes, and that I’m not […]



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Introducing myself

This week we introduce two new blogging candidates. First up is Casey. Hey Fiercely, Fabulous, Freethinking Fatties. My name is Casey and I’m a doctoral student who studies embodiment and physical activity at a university in North Carolina. I’m passionate about fun, physical activity for people from all walks of life, body sizes, dis/abilities, and […]



via Fierce, Freethinking Fatties http://fiercefatties.com/2013/08/16/introducing-myself

These Things Matter

Yesterday I had my friend Lilia over for some quality crafting time. It was so necessary! It is therapeutic, I’m convinced of it! We had a great time and got to chat and catch up with each other. So fun! Then my phone rang and I instantly knew it was the job I had been [...]



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just because I love it

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Everyday Meatloaf

Hi everyone! For the past few years, my mother has had severely declining health. She has heart disease and has had numerous heart attacks. Last year, she had triple heart bypass surgery. Two weeks ago, she had emergency surgery again to place multiple stents after another minor attack. She doesn’t have a good prognosis, and […]



via Fierce, Freethinking Fatties http://fiercefatties.com/2013/08/15/everyday-meatloaf

Weight Loss is Not Revenge

Reader Rachel let me know about a new show called “My Big Fat Revenge” where women are encouraged to lose weight to “get revenge” on people who bullied them for being fat. Here are some quotes from the press release: After being discounted, humiliated, and rejected because of their weight, these women are ready to […]



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Testing!

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Let us Fashion.

via Nudemuse...daily nattering. http://blog.nudemuse.org/2013/08/let-us-fashion.html

Adipositivity 615

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Ignored, Invisible, Erased

In response to my post about how fat hate is often about things other than our actual fat, I received comments and e-mails from people who had experiences where they were ignored, erased, or made to feel invisible. This is just another effect of the war on fat people, of the government encouraging our employers, […]



via Dances With Fat http://danceswithfat.wordpress.com/2013/08/14/ignored-invisible-erased

On Wellness, lies and shit ain't nobody got time for.

via Nudemuse...daily nattering. http://blog.nudemuse.org/2013/08/on-wellness-lies-and-shit-aint-nobody.html

Prescription Splints —

Veronica and I will usually watch a show or two on the computer right before bed. Recently, we’ve been watching Daria on Amazon, but we’re obviously always up for an MST3K, available for a select few episodes on Amazon and the rest on YouTube, notwithstanding our extensive tape and DVD collection. So, I don’t really […]



via Fierce, Freethinking Fatties http://fiercefatties.com/2013/08/13/prescription-splints

Too Big For the Blog

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Note to Self: Process, or Feedback, or Something

via The Fat Girl http://the-fat-girl.blogspot.com/2013/08/note-to-self-process-or-feedback-or.html

Self-care…Don’t care!

I had a really good day yesterday. It was such a relief to just not feel horrifically insecure and mega sad. I felt pretty good for the entire day. I looked awesome, too, by the way. Hey, gotta celebrate those little things, man. For real! I had a great time with my boyfriend. We had [...]



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It’s Not Even About My Fat

Ever since I posted about doing a marathon I’ve been getting tons of hate mail. I got an e-mail that said “A part of me sincerely hopes you die doing that marathon so that others will see you can’t be over 300lbs and act like it doesn’t matter, you need to lose weight!” This illustrates […]



via Dances With Fat http://danceswithfat.wordpress.com/2013/08/13/its-not-even-about-my-fat

the HAES® files: The Long Road Home (to the ASDAH Conference)

by Rev. Dr. E-K. Daufin Attending the 2013 ASDAH Conference gave me professional progress and personal payoff. I am an educator, journalist, artist and media scholar who has been a lonely salmon swimming upstream against the current of media and cultural weight stigma before finding the Fat Studies Division of the National Popular Culture/American Culture […]



via Health At Every Size® Blog http://healthateverysizeblog.org/2013/08/13/the-long-road-home-to-the-asdah-conference

Hit the Ground Running…Watch Out!

Today I am feeling clear headed and more like myself than I have in weeks. I had a second interview at a job I super want (but still not willing to get my hopes up and still quite superstitious about the whole thing) and while it was mega short, I think it went well. I [...]



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You are all beautiful

Written on a bathroom wall.



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poor Kate Lumley

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Sour Lemons

Plus-sized fashion, or the lack of it, has really made headlines over the last several years, and yet another clothing company is in hot water for apparently refusing to cater to larger customers. Lululemon, an upscale boutique that sells yoga pants and workout clothes for the price of what I could buy in five outfits […]



via Fierce, Freethinking Fatties http://fiercefatties.com/2013/08/12/sour-lemons

Vacation Time!

Hi, my dear! If you’re seeing this, I’m already on my way to a little Jersey Shore vacation. (Poofing out my bangs as we speak.) Though I won’t posting as much to my blog and elsewhere, you don’t have to be Body-Love-Wellness-less. We can stay in touch in a few ways! For Silly Vacation Pics [...]



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The Fat Chick Works Out – Week 2 (ish)

So, back in July, I started up with The Fat Chick Works Out, and blogged a bit about Week 1. I got a lot of good walking done that week, totally 6.65 miles and 2.68 hours. And then life happened. The week of the 22nd, I only walked once, and got all of 2 miles […]



via Kelly Thinks Too Much http://kellythinkstoomuch.wordpress.com/2013/08/11/the-fat-chick-works-out-week-2-ish

MY FAT ASS LOVES PINTEREST

I have recently become enamored with Pinterest. If you are not familiar with Pinterest, it is a website that can waste a phenomenal amount of your time, but it can also be a great source of information, ideas, and beautiful images. In Pinterest, you create “Boards” – basically digital cork boards where you “pin” the […]



via Fatties United! http://fattiesunited.wordpress.com/2013/08/11/my-fat-ass-loves-pinterest

It’s not your anemia causing this, it’s your fat (WRONG!)

Mary writes: I work at my doctor’s office (which is a large clinic of primary and specialty doctors). 1 of our doctors has late hours which is great when you’re not feeling well and you don’t want to have to ask for time off to go to doctor’s appointments I am very overweight but other […]



via First, Do No Harm http://fathealth.wordpress.com/2013/08/10/its-not-your-anemia-causing-this-its-your-fat-wrong

Craig's Back-2-Back Cross Canada Trip

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On Self Caring through rough times.

via Nudemuse...daily nattering. http://blog.nudemuse.org/2013/08/on-self-caring-through-rough-times.html

Scones of Sadness

You know how sometimes something will happen and normally it wouldn’t get to you but then there’s that one day where it just shows you how everything in your life is falling apart? Yeah…THAT! This morning I got up and fed the puggyman after taking him outside and started my day’s tasks. Laundry, espresso, toilet [...]



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Minimal Baggage

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Ham Radio

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Adipositivity 614

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Uneasy bedfellows

I had a blog due this week and, to be honest, I was struggling for ideas of what to write about. And then the Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity posted this on their Facebook page. You might wonder why I bother to follow an organisation that considers itself to be a “Center […]



via Fierce, Freethinking Fatties http://fiercefatties.com/2013/08/07/uneasy-bedfellows

LSP: Unintentionally Inspirational?

This is “LSP” or “Lumpy Space Princess” (if you’re nasty?!)…she’s from a cartoon I love called “Adventure Time” on the Cartoon Network. She sounds like a valley girl and is, um, lumpy! I fucking love her!!! She floats around and generally just talks smack and snarks at people, but you also see the insecurity behind [...]



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Mapping fat culture: Malta's megalithic fat figures

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The Problems With Food Policing

One of the most frustrating things that I deal with as part of our fat bashing society is the idea that my fat body is a signal that I need other people to tell me how to live my life – what to eat and what not to eat, how to exercise etc. In fact […]



via Dances With Fat http://danceswithfat.wordpress.com/2013/08/07/the-problems-with-food-policing

Gaps in the Literature, or, "The information you are sharing above feels like freedom to me."

via The Fat Girl http://the-fat-girl.blogspot.com/2013/08/gaps-in-literature-or-information-you.html

Hey skinny! Fat activism is not always about you!

via Obesity Timebomb http://obesitytimebomb.blogspot.com/2013/08/hey-skinny-fat-activism-is-not-always.html

Jamaica Wind —

So, I’m on vacation this week at Holiday World in Santa Claus, Indiana, which I praised in this post two years ago on what a fat-friendly theme park it is. Our third visit as a family and I can still say it’s a great place to have a good time if you’re fat for all […]



via Fierce, Freethinking Fatties http://fiercefatties.com/2013/08/06/jamaica-wind

If I Stop Dieting, Will I Gain Weight?

One of the most common questions I get from prospective clients is this: “If I stop dieting and practice Health At Every Size (or intuitive eating) will I gain weight?” Here’s the answer I pretty much always give: “I don’t know if you’ll gain weight. Some of my clients gain weight. Some stay the same. [...]



via Body Love Wellness http://www.bodylovewellness.com/2013/08/06/if-i-stop-dieting-will-i-gain-weight/

Emma Woolf Gets It Very Wrong

Reader Diane sent me an article by Emma Woolf ITW: everything I’m about to talk about] asking why, if fat bashing is not ok, thin bashing is? The article started: I have never been fat, but I know exactly what it is like to be judged for my size and hear unkind comments about my […]



via Dances With Fat http://danceswithfat.wordpress.com/2013/08/06/emma-woolf-gets-it-very-wrong

the HAES® files: History of the Health At Every Size® Movement—The Mid- to Late1990s (Part 4)

by Barbara Altman Bruno, PhD, LCSW In response to requests from our readers, the Health At Every Size Blog is honored to reprint Barbara Altman Bruno’s history of the HAES movement. Most of the installments of this history have been previously published in ASDAH member newsletters. This post is Part Four in a series. The […]



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Basic Bruchetta

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Flying Blind

I’m sitting here, trying not to cry too violently during a much needed resumé update session. Most of us understand the pain of hashing out our entire education and work history for some potential employer who probably only gives half a rat’s ass about all of the past glory we wax so poetically about. But […]



via Fierce, Freethinking Fatties http://fiercefatties.com/2013/08/05/flying-blind

An Addition to the Blogroll

I just started reading Wordgazer’s Words, a theology blog full of detailed and thought-provoking posts. I particularly appreciated her post on divorce, and the one about Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the well. Lots of very good stuff here.



via Kelly Thinks Too Much http://kellythinkstoomuch.wordpress.com/2013/08/04/an-addition-to-the-blogroll

Plus-Sized Nursing Pictures in Honor of World Breastfeeding Week

via The Well-Rounded Mama http://wellroundedmama.blogspot.com/2013/08/plus-sized-nursing-pictures-in-honor-of.html

And It Goes Like This…

Sometimes there is nothing more direct and immediate than a photograph. You see gut-wrenching exposès from war-torn nations, and the explosive panic of a war correspondent’s fast shutter clicks as they run for cover and try to tell the world a story. Then there are the glossy, slick, Photoshopped images of what society is trying […]



via Fierce, Freethinking Fatties http://fiercefatties.com/2013/08/02/and-it-goes-like-this

Love Letter to Lifting

via The Fat Girl http://the-fat-girl.blogspot.com/2013/08/love-letter-to-lifting.html

This is my total lack of surprise.

via Nudemuse...daily nattering. http://blog.nudemuse.org/2013/08/this-is-my-total-lack-of-surprise.html

The Fire of a Thousand Suns

How many of our wonderful readers have been through labour? Go ahead, raise your hand. It’s OK if people are around, you can just raise it a little bit. OK. You remember what that was like, right? Waves and waves of intense pressure and pain (don’t let anyone fool you: labour hurts because it’s not […]



via Fierce, Freethinking Fatties http://fiercefatties.com/2013/08/01/the-fire-of-a-thousand-suns

Adipositivity 613

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Fat in the pool, on video, in public

via Obesity Timebomb http://obesitytimebomb.blogspot.com/2013/08/fat-in-pool-on-video-in-public.html