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90-Day Belly Dance Challenge
As folks who follow my blog posts can tell, it’s been a really, really rough several months pain-wise. I went from dancing in at least three to four classes a week to maybe doing one a week … maybe …...
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Peer Review —
Trigger warning: Discussion of research regarding weight and health. tl;dr warning: This is one bad mama jama of a post going into great depth on a single study. I have attempted to break it down for...
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Big, Fat Tortoise
I’ve seen TV. I’ve seen the internet. I know how this shit works. You’re supposed to turn up, sad, talking about a thing you want to change. Then, you go away and change it, talk about how easy it was...
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Your Brain on a Diet
Trigger warning: Discussion of diets and weight loss. Sandra Aamodt is a neuroscientist. The video below is her TED Talk about our brains on weight loss and, in particular, about mindful eating. She...
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Celebrity Skin
Trigger warning: Discussion of weight-loss and diet programs. Now she’s fading, somewhere in Hollywood I’m glad I came here with your pound of flesh. —from “Celebrity Skin” by Hole We’ve all heard and...
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Dear Mean Girl
Trigger warning: Dickweed promoting weight loss. Dear Bigot Troll Mean Girl, You read this article on Rawstory (stating a “study” found people more likely to “gorge” themselves if they think of...
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Let Me Introduce Myself
This is the first post introductory post from from Dow Jones, our latest blogging candidate. After she submits three guest posts, we will vote on her inclusion in our blog. This is going to be my...
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Chicken of Tomorrow —
When I was around 10 years old, I remember going to my Uncle Ray’s house for the weekend. Uncle Ray worked in an auto-body shop, but in his free time he was a weightlifter and an avid “coach” to each...
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The Religion of Weight Loss
For the past two weeks, I have been observing and participating in #notyourgoodfatty on Twitter, which you can read the genesis of here. In summary, the hashtag was started when fat activist Amanda...
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Diet Talk Detox
Trigger warning: Diet and weight loss talk. With various injuries, detours to specialists, and other tasks that need taken care of, I’ve been putting off my routine medical visits for about a year at...
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Chaos, catering, and conferences
There’s a reason I haven’t posted here in a while and I’d like to tell you about it. I’d also like to ask for your help. It all started in December 2012, just after Christmas. I was a about a month...
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Fat Godzilla Rules
I was recently pulled out of semi-retirement, where I basically sat in a back room letting my soul wither and die, to discuss the dark comedy of disaster that is the Fat Godzilla Controversy of 2014....
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700 Club —
Trigger warning: Discussion of the science of weight loss as presented by weight loss charlatans and snake oil salespersons. So I’ve got this little project I’ve been working on since last July. I’ve...
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Spuriouser and Spuriouser
A few days ago, I came across a Tyler Vigen’s Spurious Correlations. It’s really amazing the things that have absolutely NOTHING to do with each other, and yet there are some amazing correlations....
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Twenty-Nine Forever!
Last Friday was my 30th birthday. There were a lot of “dirty thirty” jokes and the occasional “Is this your second 29th birthday?” comment. Thankfully, most of the people around me are amazing and...
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Market Forces —
Trigger warning: Human scum ahead. Read with caution. Over the last week, I noticed a new trend among the fat haters. Let’s call it the Dudebro Evopsych Manifesto. In meme form, it goes a little...
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What I’ve Learned From HAES and Eating the Food
Trigger warning: Discussion of calorie counting, healthy behaviors, weight loss and eating disorders. I’m halfway through the second 100 days of my Eating the Food experiment that started in December,...
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Do You See What I See?
Perception, it’s a funny thing. When you imagine yourself in any one of the various case scenario daydreams you indulge in during your waking hours, what is it you see? How do you characterize...
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Four Not-So-Weird Tips for Managing Stress
Stress sucks. I’m heading into a very, very stressful June. I can’t talk about why (yet), which is mean, I know. I don’t mean to … um … vague blog … but I do want to talk about stress. I don’t handle...
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Hydra Clown —
Trigger warning: Discussion of eating disorders, dietary choices, and weight loss. Check out Tessa Shackleford’s Etsy page for more amazing, surreal artwork like the awesome illustration she did for...
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