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Eating the Food: Eight Weeks
Trigger warning: Discussion of calorie counting in order to eat enough food to meet daily caloric requirements. As I write this, it’s day 56 of my 100 day Eat the Food experiment. This is my...
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Prove It! Moby Dick 1 —
Trigger warning: This post is about a bogus weight loss product. tl;dr warning: This investigation is almost a month in the making and requires some depth to tell it right. Therefore, I am dividing...
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Unwelcome comments about body changes
Trigger warning: Eating issues, discussion of weight changes In my constant pursuit of some amount of reasonable pain control from my spine injury (and the permanent nerve damage that resulted), I’ve...
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Another Biggest Loser season over, another new controversy
Trigger warning: Images of extreme weight loss and discussion of said weight loss. The negative reaction to the latest winner of The Biggest Loser, Rachel Fredrickson, might finally be the moment...
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Prove It! Moby Dick 2 —
Trigger warning: This post is about a bogus weight loss product. tl;dr warning: This investigation is almost a month in the making and requires some depth to tell it right. Therefore, I have divided...
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HAES and Weight Loss
Trigger warning: Discussion of weight loss as a result of following Health at Every Size. Dang, this post was hard to write. I had a really hard time putting my thoughts together on this topic. Let me...
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My Perfect World Wishlist
A post on my Facebook account became hopelessly mired in Intarwebz!Drama!! when thread drift happened. The drama part of it all doesn’t matter — not in the whole scheme of things. However, a person...
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May Contain Fewer Zs
Please join us in welcoming our newest blogging candidate, Chelle. She will be submitting three guest posts before we vote on her inclusion. Trigger warning: Discussion of multiple weight loss...
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Race for Life
This is the second guest post of our newest blogging candidate, Nomchelle. After her next post, we will vote on her inclusion. Trigger warning: Discussion of exercise as a weight loss tool. My...
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National Eating Disorder Awareness Week
Trigger warning: Graphic discussion of eating disorders. For National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, I created a video. Partly because I need to do more vlogging and partly because I think it’s...
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Happy Horny Skinny —
Trigger warning: Graphic discussion of eating disorders and fat shaming. Back in 1999, Dr. Drew Pinsky, the popular addiction specialist turned TV and radio host, did something unconscionable that...
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Eating the Food: Ten Weeks
Trigger warning: Discussion of calorie counting in order to eat enough food to meet daily caloric requirements. As I write this, I’m 70 days into my 100 day Eat the Food experiment. This is my...
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World’s Tiniest Violin —
Trigger warning: Eating disorders, diet talk and assholes. When I first started blogging about Fat Acceptance in 2009, I made the clever decision to begin by immediately pissing off everybody. As I...
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Laughing at failure
I hurt my back in a freak skating accident recently. Not wanting to do cortisone shots or surgery, I’m looking into chiropractic care. Whether it works or not is up for debate, and I’m certainly...
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Oh, You Average Doll
The news this week has been abuzz over a young man’s attempt to create an alternative fashion doll to the ultra-popular Barbie, by modeling it on the measurements of an “average” 19-year-old woman, as...
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Eating the Food: Twelve Weeks
Trigger warning: Discussion of calorie counting in order to eat enough food to meet daily caloric requirements, and subsequent, modest weight loss. The twelve-week mark for my 100 day Eat the Food...
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Hypoglycemia or calorie deprivation: a focus on food
Trigger warning: Talk of eating disorders, restrictive eating and eating enough calories for minimum function. I’ve struggled with hypoglycemia-like symptoms for years — more years than I can...
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Mice and Men —
Last year, I had a plan. In May 2013, I wrote about my intention to do the Fight for Air Climb in St. Louis. Forty flights with a goal of ten minutes, the median from the previous year’s stair climb....
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My 100 Day Experiment: Success
Trigger warning: Discussion of calorie counting in order to eat enough food to meet daily caloric requirements, and subsequent, modest weight loss. In mid-December I was a wreck. I was exhausted and...
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Trip Trapping Over the Troll Bridge
Trigger warning: Discussion of healthy lifestyle and exercise. Every so often somebody on Facebook, Tumblr, or the like will make the point that individuals who are both fit and fat shouldn’t really...
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