Search Results
Your search results for Weight
Don’t Listen to a Hypocrite (Me)
In the initial flush of my discovery of Gary Taubes' Why We Get Fat and What To Do About It (which I strongly recommend), I've gone whole hog low-carb. As I've posted in the past, I go on the candida diet every several years for health reasons and get great results...
I Look Great
Disclaimer: since I've become properly obese, I re-read these old posts and see my body dysmorphia and obsession with food and weight. It's sad to me now. Previous post on fatness. The ten pounds I put on between Mother's Day and Father's Day has finally started to...
“You Don’t Look Like You’ve Gained Weight”
Previous post on fatness. Disclaimer: since I've become properly obese, I re-read these old posts and see my body dysmorphia and obsession with food and weight. It's sad to me now. People think this is a nice thing to say and I'm sure it is for most people. I'm sure...
Middle-Aged Struggle
Previous post on fatness. Disclaimer: since I've become properly obese, I re-read these old posts and see my body dysmorphia and obsession with food and weight. It's sad to me now. Because of personal stressors, I put on almost ten pounds between May 8th and June...
Doesn’t Take Much to be Overweight When You’re Short
Previous post on fatness. Disclaimer: since I've become properly obese, I re-read these old posts and see my body dysmorphia self-hatred and obsession with food and weight. It's sad to me now. My last vacation, plus some personal stressors, got me eating this spring....
Don’t Lose Weight for a Wedding
How many people reading this have been the ex-girlfriend, attending the wedding of a former boyfriend? How often does it happen and how much time usually goes by between the end of the former relationship and the wedding? In this case, 18 years. Yes, we kept in touch...
Growing Old and Staying Thin
Disclaimer: since I've become properly obese, I re-read these old posts and see my body dysmorphia and self-hatred and obsession with food and weight. It's horrible to me now. We all know by now that as we age it gets easier to put on pounds and harder to lose them....
On the Eighth Day of Thanksgiving…
Disclaimer: since I became properly obese, I re-read these old posts and see my body dysmorphia and self-hatred and obsession with food and weight. It's sad. I'm grateful that I've finally started to lose the twelve pounds I put on over my awful, wretched summer of...
Dream Weight
Photo by my boyfriend, Bob. For months, maybe even years, I've been thinking that since I'm five feet, two inches tall and shrinking, my ideal weight would be 118 pounds. This weight has seemed variably far away or impossible, depending on my state of fitness. But in...
The Key to Losing Weight (for me)
This would be my advice to anyone who is overweight and wants to lose pounds: fix everything in your life that makes you unhappy. I've dragged extra pounds around, worked hard to lose them, failed, tried a new approach, failed, tried a new approach, failed, etc. I...