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, eating disorder, fat acceptance, self reflection on March 21, 2008 | No Comments »
About a year ago. For years, I had swung between really caring that I couldn’t break my nasty, ugly habit (old words I used to describe my nails) and occasionally ceasing to notice, and thus ceasing to bite. I came up with theories about WHEN and WHY I would bite them, the traditional stuff about being stressed, [...]
Posted in body image, eating disorder, fat acceptance, food on March 16, 2008 | No Comments »
I went to a really nice dinner tonight with a group of people I really really like. They are all sweet, kind, and generally would say that they care about me, and one another. However, this is also a group of people who believe in diets. As in, at least 20 minutes of the conversation [...]
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 body image, eating disorder, feminism, racism on March 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I got together with a group of women last night, all who know each other around doing social justice work. Particularly around race. They were (intentionally) all white women- the conversation topic was intended to be about what it is to be a white woman. I was both thrilled and pretty scared about the conversation. Though [...]
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, 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 4363770, body image, eating disorder, feminism, self reflection, spirituality on February 10, 2008 | No Comments »
But this blog is starting to look too academic from the last few posts, let’s keep me human. I was talking to my boyfriend last night (which was nice, I’m running around like a maniac these days, traveling- so just hanging is nice!) What were we talking about? Well he has this amazing self confidence- perhaps [...]
