I have been shopping regularly for the past few weeks — something I HATE to do, specifically because my options are so limited — and I’ve only come up with TWO items wearable enough to buy. And neither of them were all that great; they just worked.
I try to avoid shopping online because, being [...]

On Monday, I presented the PSA and the rest of my social marketing campaign to my classmates and professor. I barely slept the night before, I was so nervous. I seriously entertained fantasies of being pelted with things and booed out of the room for ‘promoting obesity,’ or something. At the very least, I expected [...]

So, as an upcoming project for one of my classes, I have to do a food demonstration that translates a nutrition concept (such as “encouraging consumers to adopt new food ideas”) while demonstrating my skillz in teh kitchenz.
In the past, I’ve done slide-shows of penis-shaped vegetables, and written lab reports referring to the mysterious [...]

…my unwholesome fascination with this man.

Walk it out…

Then break it down.

Did someone say “third piece of pie“?
I’d like to say something about how much fat people eat. I, personally, would be neither surprised nor offended if it were somehow proven that fat people, on average, eat more than thinner people. Of course, this hasn’t been proven, and if it were, there would be exceptions and [...]

Re: this.
Dan Savage does occasionally give lip-service to the idea of not discriminating against people based on their size and weight. But at the same time, he comes back again and again to statements that are not backed up by evidence, such as:
And if Ms. English—a 400 hundred pound woman—stops eating drive-through garbage, starts [...]

The policy may be more inclusive than I first interpreted. According to the Canadian Transport Agency website,
“For persons disabled by obesity, the Agency cites the practical experience of Southwest Airlines, which screens for entitlement to an additional seat by determining whether a person can lower the seat’s armrests.”
This makes it sound like the status of [...]

Some interesting tidbits while I study for my biochemistry final:
-When your body breaks down carbohydrates for energy, it converts glucose into fructose (and then other things, but that’s one of the first steps of glucose breakdown, aka glycolysis.) So it’s not really true that “your body doesn’t know what to do with fructose!” because when [...]

I was thinking about this today. And it occurred to me: if all the fat people in the world suddenly stopped participating in everything, do you know what would happen?
I do. The entire goddamn world would collapse.
We fund the healthcare systems that we’re supposedly draining. We run the governments and the immigration services that [...]

I recently received a Becel newsletter (don’t ask) very excited to announce that “Being moderately overweight increases heart disease risk.” You won’t be terribly surprised to find that this description stretches the truth just at leeeetle.
The original study (Association of Overweight With Increased Risk of Coronary Heart Disease Partly Independent of Blood Pressure and Cholesterol [...]

I’ve been thinking a lot about fat acceptance again, mostly due to reading Kate Harding’s excellent blog. I’ve been noticing, in myself, a move toward a different stage of personal understanding about the issue. It seems like there are stages of fat acceptance.
Stage one is based mostly on disproving stereotypes. There is a cursory [...]

I’m starting this blog because all of the things I think about fat and nutrition keep seeping over into my other blog, which is a poetry blog, in which I write whiny awful poetry, and this kind of fraternizing just won’t do.
Here is where I will post my rambling rants on anything that bugs the [...]

I bet you didn’t know that I am
A BIG FAT WOMAN!! WOOO!!
but the man in the car at 5:55 this Sunday morning knew, and he wanted me to know also.

A Guide for Fat Cyclists
Fucking AWESOME.
I love bike-riding, but since I moved to the city (and got even fatter) I have avoided riding my bike altogether, and I miss it so much.

Last night, I came out in public as a fat person.
This affected me far more deeply than I thought it would.
So, I woke up early to type up my presentation on Thursday morning since my computer had swallowed my unsaved first rendition. I was nervous, and felt unprepared. At work I did some [...]