Today I experienced the joy which is seeing a doctor who doesn't know me. Apparently my usual GP is on holiday somewhere warm, lucky woman ( Read more... )

Issues:
xoJane: Fat kids and formerly fat kids are at significant risk of eating disorders, yet are more likely to go undiagnosed and untreated. Something that I only really thought about based on the experience of a friend, but it should seem obvious once you think about it.

Slate.com: How would American media report on the Government shutdown if ( Read more... )

This may interest some of you: Film director Kevin Smith is thrown off US plane for being 'too big for seat'. In a series of Tweets, he laid into Southwest Airlines for their poor customer service. I'm going to copy & paste a lot because he is too verbose for 140 characters!
Dear @SouthwestAir - I know I'm fat, but was Captain Leysath really ( Read more... )

I haven't got round to writing anything constructive about my doctor's appointment on Tuesday because I'm still processing. More about the actual health stuff later.

Got weighed again and discovered that since coming off mirtazapine ( Cut for weight-related triggers. )

This evening I am feeling awful for some reason. All useless and depressed. I have spare time (for once!) but no motivation to do *anything*, let alone tackling things from the list of Stuff I Should Be Doing. This may be connected to the latest rearrangement of meds, not sure ( Read more... )

I went to see "my" doctor yesterday. He's a GP with a special interest in psychiatry, and previous experience has shown that he has more experience and knowledge than any psychiatrist I've ever seen. I haven't seen him in about a year, because I haven't needed to. (This is a good thing.) My antidepressant repeat prescription had got to the "please ( Read more... )

I have been trying to find waterproof trousers to wear over my normal clothes at this time of year when cycling ( Read more... )

ARGH
http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2007/10/government-forecasts.html
ARGH
ARGh
this is OUR FUCKING GOVERNMENT producing this shit
ARGH

The BMI is a crock of shit at the best of times (how can you trust any measure that rolls fat, muscle and ( Read more... )

There are lots of kinds of physical beauty. Modern Western society has decided to focus on a particular type that, for female-bodied people, is tall, slim and willowy. This idea of beauty is a comparatively new thing. If you look at portraits painted at various times over the past few centuries, you'll see that curves were most definitely in ( Read more... )

5 hours sleep is not enough. Had to be up at the crack of dawn for a doctor's appointment. He was running late, so I sat in the waiting room for about an hour. This meant that by the time I got home, I'd been conscious for long enough that I couldn't get back into bed and fall asleep again (I tried, it didn't work). So now I'm tired and bad- ( Read more... )