There's a yogurt commercial out right now that irritates me every time I see it. I don't remember the brand, but it's the taller cups that slant in toward the top, and they had a breast cancer foil cap for a while ( Read more... )

When we were at Borders the other day, I was browsing in the sewing/knitting/crafty section, and I saw a book called Right Fit or something like that. It was a book about altering patterns to make them fit properly ( Read more... )

I got this from The F-Word, and she got it from here. Ultimately from the National Eating Disorders Association as tips for kids.

1. Eat when you are hungry. Stop eating when you are full. And I'd add that as often as possible, you should eat what it is you're craving. Sometimes a body craves food because there's something in that food that the ( Read more... )

“A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty,” writes [Naomi] Wolf. It is “an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.”

From The F-Word.

I'm still working this fat acceptance thing out in my head, and that always works better when I write it out, so you get to read it! :D

( but I won't make you read it )

I've joined a crusade. And since it affects how I think about myself and other people, it affects my sex life at least tangentially.

The crusade? Fat acceptance.

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