weight gain/loss

Losing Weight For Someone Else? [Help a Reader Out]

November 5, 2012
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There are a lot of bad reasons to lose weight. And there are a lot of good reasons to lose weight. Unfortunately the two categories aren’t as sharply delineated as we’d like them to be. In writing this post, I spent a good hour trying to come up with examples for each category and what I finally had to realize was that there are very, very few reasons that fall firmly in either camp. In fact, I hate to use any examples at all. Weight loss is such a personal thing; what’s a good idea for one person may be [...]

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Is It Okay to Call Out a Stranger About Their Weight If You’re “Just Trying To Help”? [Concern trolling is the new bullying]

October 3, 2012

If thinking stupid thoughts about strangers was a crime we’d all be arrested by the morality police. From judging parents based on the ill behavior of their children to judging drivers based on their obnoxious bumper stickers (true story: My brand-new reader tested out his cool new skill by announcing loudly to the rest of the car “Look mom – that person’s in the army! It says ‘My girlfriend’s husband fights for your freedom!’ ” #facepalm) to the ubiquitous judging of strangers by the way they’re dressed, people watching is an international pastime. The problem for me isn’t that people [...]

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The Sad Sad Case of Taylor Townsend: Why Everything You Know is Wrong About The Effects of Nutrition, Exercise and Weight on Longevity

September 18, 2012
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All I see is beauty and strength. Also, how bad do I want this tennis dress?! Travesty: Taylor Townsend, the number one ranked junior girls’ tennis player in the world, the reigning Australian Open singles champion and the junior Wimbledon doubles champion, and last Thursday she won two matches at the U.S. Open’s junior tournament, was recently forced to pay her own way to a tournament because “her coaches had declined to finance any tournament appearances until she lost weight.” Even though she was performing at a consistently high level they not only refused to pay her expenses but demanded that she drop [...]

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Intuitive Eating Update, Year Two: Not good [The post I never wanted to write]

July 3, 2012
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I never wanted to have to write this post. In fact, I wasn’t going to write it. Even though I’m living it. But then I talked to Gym Buddy Allison and she gave me a reality check – in her gentle, totally rational way that I love her for – that life is messy and you guys don’t expect mine to be any less so. The problem started, as it so often does with me, with weighing myself. I know. I can feel the eyes rolling and the hands being thrown up in the air. When will I learn? But I [...]

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“No Skinny People Allowed” Gyms: Brilliant or Bigoted?

June 25, 2012

Seriously, there are no words for how much I used to love the parachute in gym class! Although it probably had a lot to do with the fact I got to hide and no one threw balls at me… “Plus-Size friendly!” vs “No skinny people allowed!” is the difference between a market niche and an exclusionary tactic but either way you say it, according to the NY Daily News (I know, I know), it’s a strategy more and more gyms are embracing. But is separating the cream from the whey a good idea when it comes to fitness? The Body [...]

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My Short-Short Health & Fitness Book Report!

January 25, 2012

Thanks to Turbo Jennie (who got it from Leah? Or Sara?) for the vid! Totally safe for work. In fact, this video should become the theme for your next office party. Awesome. Click through to see the video if you get this via e-mail or RSS. Relaxation is such a personal thing. Some people get pedicures, others watch a show, still others crawl into the butt-end of a Dope Zebra and get all Party Rocker up in their backyard. Me? I read stuff. Not even fun stuff but non-fiction science-y stuff. I love it. But not everyone has the time [...]

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How Smell Influences Taste (And how to use that to your advantage)

January 22, 2012

Fact: 70-75% of how you experience flavor is due to your sense of smell. Anecdote: A friend told me about a friend (isn’t this how all good anecdotes start?) who had lost his sense of smell in an accident and consequently lost 20 pounds easy-peasey because, in my friend’s words, “Everything pretty much tasted the same. Brownies tasted like whole wheat bread so why not just eat the bread then?” At the time my eating disorder – one of several, is there such a thing as multiple personality disorder for EDs? – was in full swing and I fantasized about [...]

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From Sex to Sanity: The huge benefits (and one surprising negative) of being active

January 3, 2012

“I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes you’re lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see, you know they’d crush you if they could. There’s honesty.” – One of my all-time favorite quotes about fitness (truly, nothing is more honest than weight lifting!) from my Shape.com slideshow The Smartest Things Ever Said About Fitness. One of the best things about my job, even better than getting to interview celebs like Allison Sweeney and Tony Horton, is getting to talk to all kinds of people and see how fitness has changed [...]

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Acupuncture, Hypnosis, Running an 50-mile race: What would you try to lose weight??

December 1, 2011

This is a real book. The subtitle: “Naughty hypnosis to rocket your pulling power.” Egads, so many double entendres! My head might explode! It’s almost as if they can read my… Actually this has “unintended consequences” written ALL over it.  “If you could live longer as an obese person verses a thin person, how many years would have to be added to your life to make you choose obesity?” Gym Buddy Krista came up with this one-question survey for her final project for a graduate school course on overcoming weight bias. Go take her survey – take you 2 seconds! – [...]

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Breaking the Scale Obsession (So I can become obsessed with other things like geeky TV)

November 27, 2011

Fever dream or best idea ever for a Great Fitness Experiment? Admit it: she’s getting an awesome workout. (Click through to see the above video if it doesn’t show up in your e-mail or reader.) Lying feverish and delusional in bed makes you think funny things. At first it was just stuff like “Can I be totally sweat-soaked and still be freezing?” and “I wonder if that noise means the children have emptied every cereal box in the house into a big pile and are jumping into it like leaves?” Answers: sadly, yes and even more sadly, yes. But as [...]

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