Comments on: Help Us Pick More Favorites

By: tadpoledrain

tadpoledrain — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:34:12 +0000

I want one that i’m not even 100% positive is actually from SP… It’s a discussion of why/how we as a society might have grown fatter because of diet culture, and basically says:
Take 2 groups of people.
Leave group 1 alone.
Mess with the heads of group 2 such that they engage in all sorts of diet behavior.
Which group do you think will end up fatter overall? Group 2 it is!

Does anyone know what this is or where I can find it? It’s been bugging me like crazy.

By: veiledbeloved

veiledbeloved — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 17:18:38 +0000

Not that they’re directly on topic, but I really liked “On Dumb Luck” and Kate’s anniversary post for Al. It’s so easy to get lulled into “If I could just be thinner, I would have a significant other and if I had a significant other EVERYTHING WOULD BE BETTER,” and I think those two post were…instructive on the matter. I mean, I have a boyfriend now, and I’m not thinner and my life isn’t perfect, but I don’t think I’d even have the confidence to have told a long time friend that I really liked him without those two posts.

By: Laurakeet

Laurakeet — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:46:48 +0000

Ooo ooo I second the Bikini Mind post, too.

By: vegetative

vegetative — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:23:35 +0000

“An Anthropologist on Mars” by Fillyjonk. I love the piece itself and the comments equally. I have tended to beat myself up for not doing exercise -” if I just did X 5 times a week I would already be thin. Why can’t I do that? I am so lazy”. The theme of an anthropologist on Mars, that health and self-love are seen as opposing ideas in our culture, really hit me. I realizing that I didn’t do good things for my body, like exercise or dressing well, because I didn’t love my body enough, and therefore tried to ignore it. This change of paradigm, from hating/disciplining myself enough to be healthy, to loving myself enough to be healthy, is a work in progress.

By: Caitlin

Caitlin — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:39:11 +0000

FYI, I have a comment in moderation, because I can’t type my own email address.

It’s been one of those days.

By: Caitlin

Caitlin — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:32:04 +0000

What is it about, this conviction that eating food and occasionally reading nutritional information qualifies you to lecture about human physiology? I use gravity, and I could even tell you some figures and formulas about it, but I don’t pretend to be an expert on physics. I can do basic numerical calculations, but that doesn’t mean I have a valid position on Fermat’s Last Theorem. So why would participating in nutrition and exercise, or even reading a Cosmo article about them, possibly justify me in spouting off my views on such multivalent issues as food, fat, and fitness — issues on which even real experts don’t agree?

Fj, this is the point at which I get really sad that you are married, because I need you to marry me.

I can already tell I’m going to use that point about gravity pretty much every day for the rest of my life.

By: Nancy Lebovitz

Nancy Lebovitz — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:24:18 +0000

In addition to “The Fantasy of Being Thin” (not that it needs another recommendation), I love the one about getting out of breath going upstairs, and how it happens to most people regardless of weight, and to many who are in fairly good athletic condition.

By: LS

LS — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:58:25 +0000

Oooh, if nothing else you’ve just reminded me that I wanted to copy some of the recipe-sharing from the veggie thread. I was at work when I read it and trying very hard not to drool.

By: Charlotte

Charlotte — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:44:34 +0000

I love “The Rhinos Are Alright” . :)

By: Twistie

Twistie — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:48:05 +0000

Kate has a very cute monster. I like that it’s purple and a cyclops.

It’s the green hair, however, that makes it Art.