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• Athletic Privilege and Me

  

  I wrote a blog a couple weeks ago about my first official 5K and in it I discussed the fact that I benefit from athletic privilege and I got some questions abou... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2013 FITNESS, HEALTH

• If I Can Do It, Anybody Can’t

  

  I have also been thinking a lot about how people assume that what’s true for them must be true for other people, or that if one person can do it than everybody... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2013 FITNESS, HEALTH

• If My Life Were a Movie

  

  In the grand tradition of basing blogs on lyrics of Ani Difranco songs “If my life were a movie…everything I do would be interesting. I’d play the good guy in... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2013 FITNESS, HEALTH

• Weight of the Nation for Kids – Oh No

  

  HBO is upping the ante (and, I imagine the profitability) of their “Weight of the Nation” series with Weight of the Nation – Kids. Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2013 FITNESS, HEALTH

• Why Do Dieters Regain Weight?

  

  Predictably, after my blog yesterday called out Weight Watchers for having a failure rate hovering right around 100%, people rushed to blame almost 100% of... Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2013 FITNESS, HEALTH

• Screw You Weight Watchers

  

  The only thing you need to wear sleeveless clothes are shoulders, and you can get around that if necessary.Unfortunately this week I had the misfortune of seein... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2013 FITNESS, HEALTH

• Our Health in Our Hands

  

  Reader Amanda let me know about a new study that I find not at all shocking – the study shows that doctors are not as warm, empathetic, or generally nice to us... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2013 FITNESS, HEALTH

• What Should Fat People Have to Do?

  

  All kinds of things are being floated as things that fat people should have to do either by social pressure or government edict until we are thin (at which poin... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2013 FITNESS, HEALTH

• Sticking Up for Ourselves – Too Fat to Tan?

  

  Maybe you’ve already heard the story of Kelly McGrevey. She bought a tanning package for $70 on a Monday at Aloha Tanning in Norton, Ohio. Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2013 FITNESS, HEALTH

• Define Self-Respecting Women

  

  Samantha Brick, no stranger to writing horrific things to get attention, has written another missive about how awful it is to be fat and how absolutely... Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2013 FITNESS, HEALTH

• Bitching and Complaining

  

  One of the ways that people derail activism, whether intentionally or accidentally, is to suggest that the person who is pointing out what they feel is an... Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2013 FITNESS, HEALTH

• Revisiting the 100 Best Diet Tips

  

  I was recently in my chiropractor’s office and came across a copy of Health Magazine. The article that immediately caught my attention was “100 Best Diet Tips... Read more

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

• The War on Ice Cream Eating – a Parable

  

  First let me say that I’ve missed you all. Last week there was a decided lack of blogging because I managed to hurt my neck in a way that made me unable to use... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2013 FITNESS, HEALTH

• The Healthy Size Myth

  

  Greetings from Austin, Texas! I managed to hurt my shoulder and since I was here I went to see my favorite chiropractor. In her waiting room was a so-called... Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2013 FITNESS, HEALTH

• What’s Stopping the Fatty Uprising

  

  I’ve been thinking about the policies directly aimed at fat people – paying for extra seats on airplanes, penalities of thousands of dollars from work... Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2013 FITNESS, HEALTH

• Why Can’t They All Be a Staxi?

  

  Many of you know that my partner suffered a knee injury a couple of months ago – her medical care has been a pretty screwed up experience from start to finish... Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2013 FITNESS, HEALTH

• Actresses, Aspiration, and Attack

  

  I was thinking today about how our culture’s single, rigid, photo shop standard of beauty hurts everyone when I ran across an article talking about how actresse... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2013 FITNESS, HEALTH

• The Swimsuit Post

  

  This is a re-re-post. In fact it’s a DWF tradition. Today I got my first e-mails and comments from readers who are worried about buying swimsuits, so today I... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2013 FITNESS, HEALTH

• Reflections and Rage from My First 5k

  

  Yesterday I completed my first official 5k with the dancers from More Cabaret. They were super awesome (special thanks to Aurora who not only organized the... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2013 FITNESS, HEALTH

• Experimenting on Kids, Maybe Not So Good

  

  The first thing to know is that all of the interventions being used for “childhood obesity” are experimental at best. There is no long term data showing that... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2013 FITNESS, HEALTH