Next post on weight & health: Determined At the age of 50, I'm now on my fifth year of being fat. When I went from size 10 to size 18 in the last months of my marriage in 2013, I thought, "I'm not worried about gaining weight. I've been thin and active my...
Previous post on weight & health: NPR's This American Life: "Tell Me I'm Fat" Well, since I published this post saying I'd better accept my fatness or live in the delusion of future thinness, I've chosen the latter. I was a skinny kid and stayed thin for most of...
Previous post on weight & health: Slow as weight loss National Public Radio's This American Life program recently broadcast a show called "Tell Me I'm Fat." On their website, it's described like this: The way people talk about being fat is shifting. With...
Previous post on weight & health: I love my glucose level When I put on 50 pounds (23 kilos) between the fall of 2012 and the summer of 2013, I didn't know if that weight was here to stay or not, but now it's starting to come off. It's probably similar to a woman...
Previous post on weight & health: Sugar is NOT easy to shake Decades ago, Americans got stuck on two completely wrong ways to go about losing weight: eating less and exercising more. We got stuck on the two activities that actually increase hunger and make the...
Previous post on weight & health: I did the plow pose! I listen to a lot of health discussions and read a lot of books and articles about the best ways to get the nutrition your body needs. One thing that grates on me every time is when someone describes their...
Stock image of plow pose (this is not me) Previous post on weight & health: BLOWING OFF STEAM!!! I'm so excited to have reached a goal I'd had for over a year and a half. Last week I was able to do the plow pose again! It had been years since I could get my...
Previous post on weight & health: Cooling the stimulus We fucked up. We Americans are so damn smart andso driven to make a buck and create new ways to earn money off each other that we tampered with natural ingredients until -- over the past five decades -- we...
Previous post on weight & health: Healthy practices - don't fight yourself My battle against my lifelong sugar addiction is having a surge of success these days. In the past couple of months I've changed my diet for health reasons, but it hasn't been easy....
25 Dec 2013 20 Dec 2014 Previous post on weight & health: Cutting carbs like my life depends on it, part 2 So last September, I started reducing sugar and starches because my blood work showed high blood sugar. Then in November, I completely cut out all...
Previous post on weight & health: This was written by a MAN? One of my goals for 2014 was to lose enough fat around the middle to be able to touch my nose to my knee again. I had expected this to take months, but my jewelry has been fitting looser, so I...
Being unmarried does NOT make you inferior. Yeah, I had to learn this. Previous post on weight & health: PLoosening the grip of food over me In April 2007 I left my spinster pad and moved in with my boyfriend, who would later become my husband. I...
Previous post on weight & health: Someone asked me about being pregnant Jen Larsen gives a stunningly honest account of her weight loss through surgery in Stranger Here: How Weight-Loss Surgery Transformed My Body and Messed with My Head. With a publication...
Previous post on weight & health: Doctor's response to my weight gain On Friday morning a co-worker asked when I was due. Even with my prosopagnosia and a staff of over 500, I felt sure the two of us had never properly met because I pretty much have every...
Previous post on weight & health: Fatness equals happiness? Yesterday I saw my doctor for a regular exam. I hadn't seen her since last fall or maybe it was summer. I was looking forward to the weigh-in because I've gained so much weight and I wanted to see...