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Category Archives: Dieting/WLS

  • It’s that time of year again, folks. As Fillyjonk wrote two two years ago: Of course, we strive to make EVERY day No Diet Day, but if [...]

    Happy International No Diet Day!

    May 6, 2010
  • Some time back, to the horror of concern trolls everywhere, we provided you with a license to eat tasty food. Now Fat Nutritionist fan Bookwyrm [...]

    Friday fluff: Play with a full deck

    March 5, 2010
  • According to the Vancouver Sun, there’s a new way to torture yourself through dieting. Literally: The medical procedure involves stitching [...]

    Gobsmacked

    February 25, 2010
  • We’ve gotten ourselves to the point where we’re behaviorally and neurochemically dependent upon food. -MeMe Roth, during [...]

    Quote of the Day

    February 25, 2010
  • From the NYT comes this story about the Cookie Diet, a diet plan in which you survive on “six prepackaged cookies a day, plus one [...]

    Monstrous cookies for cookie monsters

    October 22, 2009
  • Zuzu sent me a link to the latest Schott’s Vocab post at the NYT, this one examining the phrase “fat gap.” Ben Schott points [...]

    Once More With Feeling: We Already Know We’re Fat

    September 27, 2009
  • I’ve got a problem. And since I suspect I’m not the only one, I want to start a dialogue about this psychological artifact of Fat [...]

    Guest Blogger M. LeBlanc: The Fantasy of Staying Exactly As I Am (or, This Far and No Further, This Fat and No Fatter)

    July 30, 2009
  • So, there’s a new body image website in the neighborhood, and I’m a part of it — which some of you might find surprising. I [...]

    New website, BlogHer, etc.

    July 23, 2009
  • Shapelings over 40: My fellow VC alum Kristyn Kusek Lewis just posted the following Facebook update: For an upcoming magazine story that [...]

    Ex-dieters over 40: Call for stories

    July 20, 2009
  • Shapeling RedSonja has a question that we think you all can answer better than we can. Let’s play collective Aunt Fattie! Here’s the [...]

    Open thread: Follow the rules?

    June 25, 2009

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