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• If Fatty Can Do It, So Can I

  

  Photo by Substantia Jones for the Adipositivity ProjectThere’s a phenomenon wherein people use fat people as fitness “inspiration” thinking, or even saying to... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2014 DIET & WEIGHT, FITNESS, HEALTH

• The Fatty Whisperers

  

  Fatty Whisperers are people who feel the need to give unsolicited advice to fat people (aka concern trolls). Recently in the Rolls Not Trolls Facebook... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2014 DIET & WEIGHT, FITNESS, HEALTH

• FTC Busts Diet Companies for Fraud

  

  The Federal Trade Commission has just settled a lawsuit against four weight loss companies, forcing them to pay over 34 million dollars in restitution for... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2014 DIET & WEIGHT, FITNESS, HEALTH

• Should We Have Fat Barbie Dolls?

  

  There has been all kinds of media hoopla about a Facebook community focused on plus-size modeling that put up this picture and asked if we should have a... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2014 DIET & WEIGHT, FITNESS, HEALTH

• Then You Lose Weight

  

  I had a conversation with a woman who said that she thinks that Weight Watchers is great and that I shouldn’t speak badly about them. Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2014 DIET & WEIGHT, FITNESS, HEALTH

• Would Life Be Easier Thin?

  

  I see a lot of weight loss schemes sold based on the idea that life will be “easier” when you’re thin. It’s a common question that I get asked when I’m talking... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2014 DIET & WEIGHT, FITNESS, HEALTH

• The “Best” Diet Tips?

  

  Every year around this time we are bombarded with articles of the Best Diet Tips EVER!!! I thought I would take a stab at re-writing some of them to be a... Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2014 DIET & WEIGHT, FITNESS, HEALTH

• Five New Year’s Revolutions

  

  It’s that time of year again, we are being pressured everywhere we look to lose weight. Tons of offers for weight loss products and plans. It can be hard to... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2014 DIET & WEIGHT, FITNESS, HEALTH

• Over Three Million Served

  

  My blog now has over three million views. I know that for a lot of blogs that’s not a lot but for me, it’s a lot. It’s exciting and humbling and scary all at th... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2013 DIET & WEIGHT, FITNESS, HEALTH

• Normalizing Obesity

  

  Not hating ourselves shouldn’t have to be a revolutionary act.The concept of normalizing obesity is used to justify practices including only showing fat people... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2013 DIET & WEIGHT, FITNESS, HEALTH

• If Diet Companies Had Realistic Slogans

  

  I saw a hilarious post about what would happen if companies had realistic slogans (TW: explicit language) and I thought that I would borrow the idea. Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2013 DIET & WEIGHT, FITNESS, HEALTH

• Crap I’m Sick of Hearing

  

  I got a couple of comments from “Renee” on my blog about Public Displays of Fatness that pretty well outline the poorly thought out, entitled comments and... Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2013 DIET & WEIGHT, FITNESS, HEALTH

• Worst Christmas Card Ever

  

  Here is what happened today to two people on Christmas who may or may not be my partner and me. Two women, we’ll call them Regina and Juliette were at Juliette’... Read more

  Posted on 26 December 2013 DIET & WEIGHT, FITNESS, HEALTH

• Activism – You’re Not Doing It Wrong

  

  Today I posted a link to a piece to Facebook called “Privilege, Oppression, and Being Nice.” In the piece she says:When privileged people tell oppressed groups... Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2013 DIET & WEIGHT, FITNESS, HEALTH

• Public Displays of Fatness

  

  The ladies of http://www.MoreCabaret.com being FIP.I am a fat woman and the thing about the government waging a war on obesity is that you can’t separate me fro... Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2013 DIET & WEIGHT, FITNESS, HEALTH

• The Heartbreak of HyperEgoRidiculousness

  

  I saw a beautiful graphic today on Facebook from Adam Bouska that said “If you’re going home to an unsupportive family this holiday season, remember that your... Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2013 DIET & WEIGHT, FITNESS, HEALTH

• Tyra Banks Please Say No to Special K

  

  It looks like Tyra Banks has joined Special K for their “Shhhhut Down Fat Talk” campaign. I hope that she reconsiders, because there are a bunch of issues here. Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2013 DIET & WEIGHT, FITNESS, HEALTH

• Who Gets to Condone?

  

  In my jaunts around internet discussions of size acceptance I often hear the following troubling questions: What about fashion models who are underweight, shoul... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2013 DIET & WEIGHT, FITNESS, HEALTH

• Rejecting Reality

  

  As an activist one of the most frustrating things that I hear when I discuss things that I think should be changed is “Well, that’s just reality. Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2013 DIET & WEIGHT, FITNESS, HEALTH

• Should We End Fat Talk?

  

  Name courtesy of hatemail from someone who didn’t realize that I would love this so much I would consider changing my name.A clip has been leaked of an intervie... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2013 DIET & WEIGHT, FITNESS, HEALTH