Posted in body image, diet, eating disorder, feminism, food, self reflection, tagged diet, feminism, friendship on April 7, 2008 | No Comments »
Thanks to The F-Word for this post, talking about the collective club of “who can eat less.” The New Thirteen recently also had a post about her own experiences regarding the eat less= be feminine and good thing we’ve got going on.
I thank my lucky stars, that despite being familiar with the behavior of competative [...]
Posted in beauty ideal, body image, diet, eating disorder, fat acceptance, feminism, food, obesity epidemic, skinny on March 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
So I’m working on this paper for school, actually I’ll call it a project because that seems less daunting and academic. From my first run in’s with all this body image stuff, lots of things have held tension for me. Eating, hunger and weight loss are particularly (obviously) hot spots. After a couple years of dealing with [...]
Posted in adolescent girls, body image, diet, eating disorder, skinny on March 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The cover story of the illuminary Sunday Styles section (NYT) featured this story “Starving Themselves- Drink in Hand.”
Silly girl that I am, I thought the article might have some valuable insights into another facet of eating disorders and their prevelance. Unfortunately, the topic was treated as some sort of pop-psychology novelty. The only good part [...]
Posted in beauty ideal, body image, diet, eating disorder, fat, fat acceptance, obesity epidemic, skinny on February 19, 2008 | No Comments »
1) your success is measured ULTIMATELY by a number, by a size, by how you look. When weight is your primary goal, how you feel will be in second place
2) you believe that becoming smaller, more compact, less, will make you happier MORE than you believe listening to your body will. And being smaller will [...]
Posted in adolescent girls, beauty ideal, body image, diet, fat, fat acceptance, feminism, food, self reflection on February 18, 2008 | No Comments »
One of my best friends growing up was probably classified as “morbidly obese” by the BMI. I loved horses, and obsessed about them, but having 3 younger siblings, getting out to horse country from our city home was not something my parents put at the top of their priority list. So I spent many hours [...]
Posted in adolescent girls, beauty ideal, body image, diet, eating disorder, feminism, food, self reflection, skinny, spirituality on February 18, 2008 | No Comments »
While running today, the idea of my story came up. Lately I’ve found myself having flashbacks to moments that had then faded into my history as unremarkable. The moments that have added up to where I am now, mostly dealing with weight, beauty and how and when I learned the things I was “supposed” to [...]
Posted in beauty ideal, body image, diet, eating disorder, fat, fat acceptance, food, obesity epidemic, skinny on February 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
That’s my thought for the day… I’m going to try eating and telling myself— this has nothing to do with what size you are. This is just eating. And, I think it really might be true. Because if thin people don’t eat more than fat people, if some people eat chocolate for breakfast, if the [...]
Posted in adolescent girls, body image, diet, eating disorder, fat, fat acceptance, female sports, feminism, food, lacrosse, skinny on February 10, 2008 | No Comments »
So I start coaching middle school girls’ lacrosse team in a few weeks. Any advice for how to handle the social, emotional, aspects of my girls, this as it pertains to their body image, popularity etc? Thoughts, comments, anything would be welcome. I know this is a broad topic, but I really think that middle [...]
Posted in body image, diet, eating disorder, fat acceptance, feminism, food, skinny on February 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
She’s a genius. check out kateharding.net if you have any questions on that count. But, I’d like to start with something salient that popped out at me in her last post….
I try to remember to say something like a “balanced” or “varied” diet, rather than a “healthy” diet. Or worse yet, a “good” diet. For [...]
Posted in body image, diet, eating disorder, fat, fat acceptance, feminism, food, skinny on February 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Kate Harding post in October about complusive overeating, being overweight, FA rocked. I have a few points that overlap… respond….. expand….. check out the post in my “EPic” page up top
1) We’ve got to get over this set of rules, the good/bad thing, we’ve got going in this culture about food and lifestyle. It has [...]
