Zebra Awareness: Rare Disease Day

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11 Reasons Why I Focus On Health and Not Weight

I got the following e-mail today: This whole Health at Every Size thing is nothing more than fat people justifying being fat and being too lazy to diet. It simply makes no sense in any other context. Setting aside the fact that my body needs no justification,  I came to a Health at Every Size […]

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A Few Thoughts On Consistency

Today I received my last Sojourner medal in Ingress.  It’s a deceptively simple one to earn – get within a certain distance of a game portal and perform a certain game action daily. The number of days starts at 15 and  increases over time. As of today, I have visited a portal 360 days in … Continue reading →

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Cheryl Tiegs – Former Model, Current Fat Shamer

Nearly 500 readers e-mailed and Facebooked me asking for a post about this, so here you go!  For the first time ever, a “plus size model” (or, as I like to call them, models) is on the cover of Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit Edition. Now there are any number of issues that one might have with the concept […]

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Calories In-Calories Out: Not Even Wrong

I recently read an overall-pretty-good article in The Atlantic called “What Does a Calorie Measure?” about how calorie counting is being criticized by some people, often in favor of focusing on satiety. This helped me to hit on what I’ve … Continue reading →

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12 Good Fatty Archetypes now available as a zine!

This has been my life today! A long-overdue (41 years, to be exact!) foray into zine making and a very frustrating lesson in Adobe Indesign! But, after 8 solid hours I am successful in both endeavors! I’ve got several personal zine projects in the works but the […]

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the HAES® files: This is For the Fat Ambassadors, their Allies, and a Call Out to their Detractors (Well-Intentioned and Not)

by Linda Bacon, PhD, with Melissa A. Fabello, M.Ed. Sarai Walker emails me, disillusioned, feeling beaten down after months of being in the public eye as a fat ambassador. Sarai is author of the recently released Dietland, a feminist manifesto wherein heroine Plum Kettle confronts her fantasy of becoming thin, the false promises of diet […]

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