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Lived Experience: Part 2 —

February 20, 2015, 8:00 am

Trigger warning: Discussion of weight, eating disorders, health and weight loss. Yesterday, we heard from seven women who shared their experiences with the social determinants of health (SDH) and how...

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Lived Experience: Part 1 —

February 19, 2015, 12:45 pm

Serious trigger warning: Frank discussion of health, weight loss, weight loss surgery and eating disorders. When I first began putting together a roundtable of Health at Every Size® (HAES) experts to...

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Round and Round: Part 1 —

February 4, 2015, 8:57 am

Trigger warning: This post touches on issues of health and wellness, weight loss and eating disorders. Perhaps you aren’t aware, but there’s a seismic shift happening within the Health at Every Size®...

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Babies and Bathwater —

January 12, 2015, 9:05 am

Trigger warning: Discussion of weight loss, weight loss surgery and diet talk. Over the past five years, I’ve done a number of book reviews, both fiction and nonfiction. I’m not a huge fan of doing...

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Why I’m Looking for WLS Narratives (Especially, But Not Only, Norwegian)

December 2, 2014, 8:18 am

Trigger warning: Discussion of weight loss surgery and eating disorders. So I want to do a little crowdsourcing about weight-loss surgery (WLS). Are you up for that? There, now I’ll be healthy. I’ve...

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Funhouse Mirror —

November 12, 2014, 10:30 am

Trigger warning: The “wacky” in Wacky Wednesday today refers to my public mockery of hateful, ignorant redditors whose comments I share in all their grotesque glory. Read at your own risk. It’s been...

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Quick weight loss works too (but you’ll still regain it)

November 7, 2014, 7:52 am

Trigger warning: Discussion of weight loss and weight loss surgery. Saying that “Quick weight loss works too” about as well as slow weight loss isn’t saying much. How many times have we been told that...

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F-grade tips from Buzzfeed

November 4, 2014, 11:54 am

Trigger warning: Frank discussion of eating disorders and weight loss. Photo comes from cat_fuentes on Instagram. On Saturday, Buzzfeed published “15 Former Couch Potatoes Share Their Best Tips For...

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I’m Alone Out Here: My Soylent Adventure, Part 3

October 8, 2014, 9:42 am

Trigger warning: Discussion of dietary restrictions for reasons other than weight loss, as well as people who engage in similar restrictions for weight loss. Also, mention of eating disorders and...

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Fat Acceptance is Terrible Because REASONS

October 6, 2014, 8:42 am

Recently, I came across a post that blew me out of the water. Seriously it was the most disgusting combinations of words that I have read in a looong time. “Top 10 Reasons Why the Fat Acceptance...

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Punching Down for Cheap Laughs

September 30, 2014, 8:11 am

Trigger warning: Discussion of anorexia and assholes who tell fat jokes. Hiya Folks, With the recent death of Joan Rivers, and many discussions around her type of insult comedy arising on the...

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Body Politic —

September 16, 2014, 1:12 pm

Note: I received a review copy of the book I’m discussing. I’ve been asking questions about Health at Every Size® (HAES) since before I really understood what HAES was all about. Of course, Dr. Linda...

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Antifragility and Activist Burn Out

September 15, 2014, 7:34 am

Trigger warning: Brief mention of eating disorder and weight loss. “Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.” ―...

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What To Do Instead of Worrying About Your Kid’s Weight

August 18, 2014, 10:14 am

Trigger warning: Discussion of body dysmorphia and eating disorders. Last week, one of my childhood best friends (Belerma, on the far right) posted this picture she found of us taken during our sixth...

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Soylent: My Fantasy Come True?

August 11, 2014, 8:16 am

Trigger warning: Discussion of anorexia and weight loss. So, before I explain my strange food fantasies, a quick synopsis of my personal history: thin/athletic up until age 14, totally unaware that I...

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Workplace Woedown

August 5, 2014, 10:01 am

Thanks to everyone who has gotten us this far. Please support Casey in improving her mobility while fighting the fat haters by donating whatever you can afford. Read more here or click the image above...

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