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		<title>Happy International No Diet Day!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 16:43:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;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 you’ve been teetering on the edge, today is the day to try it out for 24 hours and see how you function when you make peace with food. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kateharding.net&amp;blog=920046&amp;post=4634&amp;subd=kateharding&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Friday fluff: Play with a full deck</title>
		<link>http://kateharding.net/2010/03/05/friday-fluff-play-with-a-full-deck/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sweet Machine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 has gone one better and made a Get Out of Diet Free card: Enjoy! What other Monopoly cards could you use right now?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kateharding.net&amp;blog=920046&amp;post=4356&amp;subd=kateharding&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gobsmacked</title>
		<link>http://kateharding.net/2010/02/25/gobsmacked/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:46:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sweet Machine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the Vancouver Sun, there&#8217;s a new way to torture yourself through dieting. Literally: The medical procedure involves stitching a small piece of polyethylene mesh onto a patient&#8217;s tongue, making it painful to ingest solid foods and forcing a low-calorie, liquid diet. You pay a nice man named Dr Nikolas Chugay to spend 10 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kateharding.net&amp;blog=920046&amp;post=4322&amp;subd=kateharding&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Quote of the Day</title>
		<link>http://kateharding.net/2010/02/25/quote-of-the-day-5/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 02:44:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Harding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve gotten ourselves to the point where we&#8217;re behaviorally and neurochemically dependent upon food. -MeMe Roth, during Nightline&#8217;s big fat debate That&#8217;s right, you lazy gluttons! This is what your lack of respect for your bodies, the healthcare system, your fellow taxpayers and MeMe&#8217;s certificate from a degree mill have wrought. We are now dependent on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kateharding.net&amp;blog=920046&amp;post=4319&amp;subd=kateharding&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Monstrous cookies for cookie monsters</title>
		<link>http://kateharding.net/2009/10/22/monstrous-cookies-for-cookie-monsters/</link>
		<comments>http://kateharding.net/2009/10/22/monstrous-cookies-for-cookie-monsters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:06:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sweet Machine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the NYT comes this story about the Cookie Diet, a diet plan in which you survive on &#8220;six prepackaged cookies a day, plus one ‘real’ meal — say, skinless chicken and steamed vegetables.&#8221; The idea here seems to be that you will be so entranced by the idea of eating the sinful &#8220;cookies&#8221; that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kateharding.net&amp;blog=920046&amp;post=3838&amp;subd=kateharding&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Once More With Feeling: We Already Know We&#8217;re Fat</title>
		<link>http://kateharding.net/2009/09/27/once-more-with-feeling-we-already-know-were-fat/</link>
		<comments>http://kateharding.net/2009/09/27/once-more-with-feeling-we-already-know-were-fat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 17:07:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Harding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zuzu sent me a link to the latest Schott&#8217;s Vocab post at the NYT, this one examining the phrase &#8220;fat gap.&#8221; Ben Schott points out that the phrase &#8220;has also been used to describe disproportionately high obesity rates among the poor, and the differing levels of obesity in different ethnic groups in Washington D.C.,&#8221; but here, he&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kateharding.net&amp;blog=920046&amp;post=3672&amp;subd=kateharding&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Guest Blogger M. LeBlanc: The Fantasy of Staying Exactly As I Am (or, This Far and No Further, This Fat and No Fatter)</title>
		<link>http://kateharding.net/2009/07/30/guest-blogger-m-leblanc-the-fantasy-of-staying-exactly-as-i-am-or-this-far-and-no-further-this-fat-and-no-fatter/</link>
		<comments>http://kateharding.net/2009/07/30/guest-blogger-m-leblanc-the-fantasy-of-staying-exactly-as-i-am-or-this-far-and-no-further-this-fat-and-no-fatter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:32:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Harding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve got a problem. And since I suspect I&#8217;m not the only one, I want to start a dialogue about this psychological artifact of Fat Hate and try to figure out what the hell we can do about it. You see, I&#8217;m doing pretty well at accepting my body. Which is, to be sure, a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kateharding.net&amp;blog=920046&amp;post=3425&amp;subd=kateharding&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New website, BlogHer, etc.</title>
		<link>http://kateharding.net/2009/07/23/new-website-blogher-etc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Harding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, there&#8217;s a new body image website in the neighborhood, and I&#8217;m a part of it &#8212; which some of you might find surprising. I kind of do myself, actually.  We Are the Real Deal is a companion project to the body image panel I&#8217;ll be a part of at BlogHer tomorrow. Heather Blessington, who&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kateharding.net&amp;blog=920046&amp;post=3404&amp;subd=kateharding&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ex-dieters over 40: Call for stories</title>
		<link>http://kateharding.net/2009/07/20/ex-dieters-over-40-call-for-stories/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:26:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Harding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shapelings over 40: My fellow VC alum Kristyn Kusek Lewis just posted the following Facebook update: For an upcoming magazine story that I&#8217;m writing, I&#8217;m looking for women over 40 who finally learned to love their bodies when they stopped dieting, obsessing over the scale, and/or gave up an &#8220;old way&#8221; of thinking about diet and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kateharding.net&amp;blog=920046&amp;post=3370&amp;subd=kateharding&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Open thread: Follow the rules?</title>
		<link>http://kateharding.net/2009/06/25/open-thread-follow-the-rules/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:41:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sweet Machine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shapeling RedSonja has a question that we think you all can answer better than we can. Let&#8217;s play collective Aunt Fattie! Here&#8217;s the situation: My boss was telling me the other day that his sister and her children are coming to visit. Apparently she felt both fat and ostracized in high school (I say felt, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kateharding.net&amp;blog=920046&amp;post=3239&amp;subd=kateharding&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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