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HAES and Weight Loss
Trigger warning: Discussion of weight loss as a result of following Health at Every Size. Dang, this post was hard to write. I had a really hard time putting my thoughts together on this topic. Let me...
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National Eating Disorder Awareness Week
Trigger warning: Graphic discussion of eating disorders. For National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, I created a video. Partly because I need to do more vlogging and partly because I think it’s...
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Happy Horny Skinny —
Trigger warning: Graphic discussion of eating disorders and fat shaming. Back in 1999, Dr. Drew Pinsky, the popular addiction specialist turned TV and radio host, did something unconscionable that...
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Eating the Food: Ten Weeks
Trigger warning: Discussion of calorie counting in order to eat enough food to meet daily caloric requirements. As I write this, I’m 70 days into my 100 day Eat the Food experiment. This is my...
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“Not everyone lives happily ever after”
Trigger warning: Discussion of weight loss surgery and its consequences. I don’t remember where I saw “WLS: Not everyone lives happily ever after” (I’ve slept since then and my memory is shot, another...
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World’s Tiniest Violin —
Trigger warning: Eating disorders, diet talk and assholes. When I first started blogging about Fat Acceptance in 2009, I made the clever decision to begin by immediately pissing off everybody. As I...
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Baby Steps
Trigger warning: Detailed discussion of disordered eating. I have been reading the progress of Shaunta and her Eating the Food experiment and it has inspired me to my own experiment. My experiment has...
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Oh, You Average Doll
The news this week has been abuzz over a young man’s attempt to create an alternative fashion doll to the ultra-popular Barbie, by modeling it on the measurements of an “average” 19-year-old woman, as...
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Eating the Food: Twelve Weeks
Trigger warning: Discussion of calorie counting in order to eat enough food to meet daily caloric requirements, and subsequent, modest weight loss. The twelve-week mark for my 100 day Eat the Food...
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Hypoglycemia or calorie deprivation: a focus on food
Trigger warning: Talk of eating disorders, restrictive eating and eating enough calories for minimum function. I’ve struggled with hypoglycemia-like symptoms for years — more years than I can...
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Filling in the Fox Gap
Trigger warning: Discussion of eating disorders. It’s been a while, huh? A month at least. So what’s been going on? Shiiii, a lot. I need some lovin’ I’ve talked a bit about what’s happened in college...
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My 100 Day Experiment: Success
Trigger warning: Discussion of calorie counting in order to eat enough food to meet daily caloric requirements, and subsequent, modest weight loss. In mid-December I was a wreck. I was exhausted and...
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Your Brain on a Diet
Trigger warning: Discussion of diets and weight loss. Sandra Aamodt is a neuroscientist. The video below is her TED Talk about our brains on weight loss and, in particular, about mindful eating. She...
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Celebrity Skin
Trigger warning: Discussion of weight-loss and diet programs. Now she’s fading, somewhere in Hollywood I’m glad I came here with your pound of flesh. —from “Celebrity Skin” by Hole We’ve all heard and...
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Let Me Introduce Myself
This is the first post introductory post from from Dow Jones, our latest blogging candidate. After she submits three guest posts, we will vote on her inclusion in our blog. This is going to be my...
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Hospital Pains
Trigger warning: Discussion of disordered eating. Hey e’rybody, how’s it goin’? (<—best Southern accent) Do you remember when I was talking about trying to survive my hospital and their terrible...
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Diet Talk Detox
Trigger warning: Diet and weight loss talk. With various injuries, detours to specialists, and other tasks that need taken care of, I’ve been putting off my routine medical visits for about a year at...
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Market Forces —
Trigger warning: Human scum ahead. Read with caution. Over the last week, I noticed a new trend among the fat haters. Let’s call it the Dudebro Evopsych Manifesto. In meme form, it goes a little...
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What I’ve Learned From HAES and Eating the Food
Trigger warning: Discussion of calorie counting, healthy behaviors, weight loss and eating disorders. I’m halfway through the second 100 days of my Eating the Food experiment that started in December,...
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Hydra Clown —
Trigger warning: Discussion of eating disorders, dietary choices, and weight loss. Check out Tessa Shackleford’s Etsy page for more amazing, surreal artwork like the awesome illustration she did for...
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