A while back, Joy Nash provided us with this excellent quote of the day: Obese patients are often encouraged to believe that weight loss is an appropriate way to combat depression, save a failing marriage, or increase the chance of career success. The irrationality of hopes pinned on weight loss is so striking that dieting … Continue reading »
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Marilyn’s Law
Over at Big Fat Deal, they’re discussing a Gawker thread about “curvy” women that I really, really don’t recommend reading — but I couldn’t resist posting about one of Mo Pie’s observations on it: Marilyn Monroe’s name is dropped. Maybe there should be a Monroe’s corollary to Godwin’s Law. Oh, lord, YES THERE SHOULD. As … Continue reading »
Reality vs. Relativism
Here’s some news that I know will come as a terrible shock to longtime readers: no one knows how to make fat people permanently thin. Or even less fat. Dieting doesn’t work in the long term and often makes you fatter. WLS can kill you, in addition to other unpleasant side effects, and as with … Continue reading »
Fat as a scapegoat
I’ve noticed a certain trend in the non-trollish dissenting viewpoints on fat acceptance. We all know how trolls operate — they’re wicked boring. It’s always “YOU are lazy and ugly” this and “YOU are destroying America” that. But the commenters I want to talk about are the ones who aren’t trolls, who aren’t lashing out, … Continue reading »
Illustrated BMI Categories
Updated: Go here to see it! (Viewing it as a slideshow with the info turned on is particularly awesome, as Sweet Machine pointed out.) And go here to see a post about it. Thanks to everyone who sent photos, and keep ‘em comin’! Send a photo along with your height and weight to katesblog at … Continue reading »
Pants, meet fire extinguisher
In the spirit of two very different body acceptance moves — Isabelle Caro’s bold anti-anorexia campaign and Joy Nash’s Fat Rant — I have another challenge for you. Stop lying about your weight. That’s it! There’s no time limit on this dare, no expiration. You might not find yourself in a position to lie about … Continue reading »
Shapely Prose Lexicon: “Dieting” and “HAES”
Dieting is the deliberate pursuit of weight loss as a goal in and of itself. HAES, Health at Every Size, is endeavoring to improve one’s health by means other than weight loss, but which may cause incidental, almost always temporary, weight loss. HAES is about working to make your body as healthy as possible, regardless … Continue reading »
The Elephant (So to Speak) in the Room
I’m still new enough to Fat Acceptance that I don’t know about all of the internecine conflicts within the movement, but there’s one you can hardly miss if you read a few different fat blogs: the pro-dieting (or at least dieting-neutral) crowd vs. the anti-dieting crowd. So far, my position has been that personally, I … Continue reading »
Devouring the World
Teppy wrote a great post yesterday about “demand feeding,” which is a really terrible name for “eating what you want when you’re hungry and stopping when you’re full.” That’s something I recommend frequently, as it’s a key component of the Health at Every Size strategy. The problem with it, as Teppy points out, is a … Continue reading »
