Monthly Archives: November 2009

Portal to the Fatosphere and other housekeeping.

By Michelle | Published: November 30, 2009
With Shapely Prose’s recent departure from the Notes from the Fatosphere feed, I’ve heard some people say, “What site will I now visit as my point of departure onto the feed?” And I’m humbly hoping, now that I’ve repaired my Fatosphere RSS widget there on the sidebar, you’ll consider this site for the job. I’ve [...]
Posted in Random Shit | 11 Comments

Diet pop culture: Trim Twist.

By Michelle | Published: November 27, 2009
I don’t know what in the hell this thing does, exactly, but I do know this woman looks like she’s having an awesome time: I don’t know — if losing weight in the ’60s meant wearing a modified sporty beehive, some Keds, and a look that says “I’m about to win first place in a [...]
Posted in Diet Pop Culture | 24 Comments

Dear Fat Nutritionist – do people trust you?

By Michelle | Published: November 26, 2009
I’m beginning to work through my email archives of letters people have sent me. Here’s one that I absolutely loved. (I’ve added my own emphasis and omitted some identifying details.) Dear Michelle, I’m wondering what it’s like to be a fat nutritionist. Just to give you my background, I’m in recovery from an eating disorder. [...]
Posted in Dear Fat Nutritionist, Fatness | 14 Comments

Feelings suck.

By Michelle | Published: November 25, 2009
I was sitting here, clicking links and doing random Google image searches, when I became aware of something in my chest. Something funny, not entirely physical, but inside. That’s when it occurred to me — I was having a feeling. It was a sad feeling. And I didn’t like that, not at all. It seemed [...]
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News – Unhyped obesity associations: inequality, hunger, and dieting.

By Michelle | Published: November 23, 2009
When it comes to black-box epidemiology, wherein associations and correlations are drawn between two or more conditions, but where the causal mechanisms behind those associations are left shrouded in convenient mystery, nothing seems to gratify researchers more than showing how fatness (i.e. “obesity”) is associated with a host of scary-sounding chronic diseases, while implying that [...]
Posted in Fatness, News | 25 Comments

Shit that pisses me off — fat students not allowed to graduate, and other headlines.

By Michelle | Published: November 21, 2009
If you’re fat, too bad — no degree for you. Not until you’ve been rehabilitated and/or re-educated, that is. Lincoln University has a new policy whereby students with a BMI over 30 are required to either lose weight or take a “Fitness for Life” course. Since they’re obviously too fucking dim to understand anything about [...]
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The fat nutritionist in hiding.

By Michelle | Published: November 13, 2009
Since becoming involved in size acceptance, somewhere back around the end of 2000, I’ve had a series of comings-out. I first had to tell my husband and family I was quitting my diet, and all further weight loss attempts. That was a little hard, since I’d been such a devoted and obnoxiously voceriferous dieter (I’m [...]
Posted in Liking Yourself, Random Shit | 39 Comments