How Childhood Obesity Fight Damages Self-EsteemWe can see in the comments how easily they transfigure an important point into a man of straw that is not saying anything more complex than "we should encourage kids to be fat!!!" I wonder how long, how often, and how strongly people have to hear a message that they have deliberately made themselves ( Read more... )

Lifetime had a movie on billed as sort of liberatory for fat girls. Instead, it's kind of like fat torture porn. It's called Queen Sized (much lolz based on the pantyhose us fat chicks wear, assuming we wear hose). It stars the girl who played Tracy Turnblad in the remake of Hair Spray 2007. The girl is cute enough, but the material is so overblown ( Read more... )

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Watching Project Runway and trying to work on… work. Huzzah.

Flying While Fat

Like terrorism, in a way.

Not much to say, but skauble has a good post about it

"As long as you are female and your hormones are female hormones you are protected from cardiovascular disease," Manolopoulos said. "The moment you go into menopause and your hormones change, you lose your typical female appearance and you gain stomach fat and at the same time your risk for heart disease and diabetes becomes comparable to men of ( Read more... )

Lincoln U Requires Its Students to Step on a Scale

Okay, let's pretend for a moment that the BMI is actually accurate1 and I didn't have a 5'9 boy laden with muscle that got put in the morbidly obese range last semester when we talked about this. How the fuck is it the business of my university, or anyone's university, how fat my ass is? They're ( Read more... )

Overweight America Podcast

( And some fatass commentary )

Leslie ponders on our most profound relationship

Like baby sea turtles instinctively seeking out the ocean after hatching, cupcake-preparation is our deepest instinct, so inherent to our being that we are barely aware of its influence. Deep in the genetic memory of every fat woman there is an ingrained knowledge of cupcake-making, going back to ( Read more... )

Today I have been a great big bag of fail. Actually, that's been my whole week, because I've overslept twice now and was unable to take a shower this morning (gross). I did however, break out a wash cloth and apricot body wash to do a five minute pit bath dance before running out the door ( Read more... )