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 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 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 body image, fat, fat acceptance, food, obesity epidemic on February 12, 2008 | No Comments »
Check this out
Its a great article pointing out the weak points in the mainstream FA movement… the way the author comes at it might be a bit off putting for some. But I encourage you to read it and take in the ways that intersectionality need to be remembered and utilized in the FA movement. [...]
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 [...]
