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My Manifesto on Health Care for Fatties
I know I have one last installment in my Health at Every Size® eating series, but there’s something else I want to write about. That’s coming soon, I promise. Today, I want to write about being afraid...
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Diagnosis: Fat. Prescription: Lose weight but don’t exercise!
I get so tired of ranting about how I’m treated at the doctor’s office, or how scared I am whenever I meet a new doctor. So, today, I’ll rant about how my husband was recently treated at the doctor’s...
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Notes from a conference
Trigger warning: Discussion of a conference that deals with weight loss and weight loss surgery. I study weight stigma. For some reason, this is considered to fall under the umbrella of obesity...
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Heavy Breathing —
On the /r/AskHAES subreddit, there was a follow-up question to an earlier thread where trolls and twits made the case that only certain people may lay claim to the title of athlete. For example, this...
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Marathon Mama
The Victoria Goddess Run was Sunday June 2nd and my first 5k. I can guarantee you it wont be my last! Though the day didn’t start off on the right foot, and ended up being reaaally long for unrelated...
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Glass Onion —
Only seniors wrote for our high school paper, which made the editorial room primarily their domain. But as a freshman on the yearbook staff and the youngest brother of a senior on the newspaper, I...
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Money Changers —
Trigger warning: Discussion of current treatments for your fatness. One pill makes you larger andone pill makes you small. As you’ve probably heard by now, I’ve got a disease. You probably do too. In...
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“No Longer Defensible”
I don’t think there is a person who is connected to the wider world somehow (e.g., internet, evening news, newspapers) who doesn’t know that the AMA declared obesity a disease this week. Many Fat...
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Oh S(h)it
Whenever I decide that it’s time to take a break from the thousands of hours of driving I do on a daily basis, there is usually a quick trip to the kitchen to grab a snack before the inevitable...
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Athletic Privilege —
I played a lot of sports growing up: soccer, basketball, volleyball, baseball, wrestling, and track and field. I loved playing sports and I harbored elaborate daydreams of smashing the winning homerun...
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Invisible Disability
me at the gym I really hate admitting it sometimes… but I am disabled. I don’t have a visible disability. I don’t walk with a cane or use a wheelchair. But my disabilities impact my life in major ways...
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Daily Challenge, Day 1
I have a friend who just referred me to this online “game” of sorts, called Daily Challenge. From her description: It’s just a little site that sends you an e-mail or text each day telling you to do a...
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Baby Steps —
From our blog’s very inception, I have been critical of the coverage that Huffington Post gives to issues surrounding fat people and fat health. When I began criticizing the fact that HuffPo’s...
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Just Wait: Fat Discrimination and Healthism
My father was a fairly thin young man. He was a very active and quite slim blue-eyed blonde with delicate features. As he grew, he saw his older sisters and brothers (he’s the youngest of nine) all go...
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Dog Pile
Each week here at FFF, we try to discuss things in the news, but sometimes we just don’t have the time, sanity points, or will to discuss things. So let’s let the Dogs of News sniff interesting,...
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Rabbit Food —
Trigger warning: Discussion of dieting culture. There’s just one media source I know I can rely on when I need whether Britney Spears is still sexy or if she’s become “bloated and unkempt” or “out of...
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Bad encounters may prompt obese patients to doctor-shop (DUH!)
“Bad encounters may prompt obese patients to doctor shop” is one of those “No shit, Sherlock” headlines, and after reading it, I had a rant and a half on Facebook (one of my friends posted the link to...
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The Fire of a Thousand Suns
How many of our wonderful readers have been through labour? Go ahead, raise your hand. It’s OK if people are around, you can just raise it a little bit. OK. You remember what that was like, right?...
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Dog Pile 2
Each week here at FFF, we try to discuss things in the news, but sometimes we just don’t have the time, sanity points, or will to discuss things. So let’s let the Dogs of News sniff interesting,...
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Sour Lemons
Plus-sized fashion, or the lack of it, has really made headlines over the last several years, and yet another clothing company is in hot water for apparently refusing to cater to larger customers....
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