Yup, gonna post even though I have had no time this week...

New Year resolutions, and all that. Next week should be slightly less hectic; This week I've been taking down Xmas stuff (it's a fairly wide-spread UK superstition that all Christmas decorations need to be down by the Feast of the Epiphany, Jan 7, also known as 12th Night), returning stuff ( Read more... )

I've added a new link to my blogroll - Debra's Just Maintaining.  This is the blog of a woman who is writing about her experiences with maintaining weight loss, and how it's nothing like what the diet-industrial complex tells you.  It's hard.  It's a part time job, even.

She's also supportive of HAES and Fat Acceptance, though obviously, she is ( Read more... )

Shapely Prose has a post about fat visibility in YA fiction with a request for people to post commentary on any YA (young adult) fiction where fat is portrayed positively, or even in a neutral non plot-point manner.

( Cruel intentions... )

I've been doing some deep thinking lately about my stance on Fat Acceptance and my own body issues, and where they intersect and conflict, and I've come to a decision.

I am not dieting to lose weight ever again. No, not to lose five pounds I may pick up over the holidays, not to fit into a particular dress, and especially not to conform to a ( Read more... )