Author Archives: Michelle

Meals, or The appropriate use of discipline.

By Michelle | Published: August 30, 2010
I define structure as the space within which things can happen. And I think discipline (or “willpower” or “control” or “forcing yourself”) is best applied in the service of creating structure. It seems to me that everyone has a little tyrant living inside them. The tyrant, if it cannot be exorcised, must be exercised — [...]
Posted in Unified Theory, eating | 26 Comments

Quotes from the (Outer) Fatosphere

By Michelle | Published: July 2, 2010
There’s quite a bit of good writing not syndicated by our own dear little feed, so I thought it would be cool to start linking some of the stuff I run into elsewhere. So, in response to a loathsome editorial postulating that the extravagant air conditioning of public spaces is the fault of the fat, [...]
Posted in Fatness, News | Tagged , | 36 Comments

Commenter brilliance – Arwen edition.

By Michelle | Published: June 28, 2010
I’m not sure if you all know, but the comments section here is often the best part of this whole ice-cream social. Up till now, I’ve just been too lazy to pick out some of the gems for you, but I’m going to start. There are too many hilarious, touching, and/or informative vignettes to let [...]
Posted in Commenter Brilliance, Diets, eating | Tagged , | 34 Comments

Diet Pop Culture – Choice Quotes from Diet Paperbacks

By Michelle | Published: June 25, 2010
I have a sort of unofficial hobby of collecting diet paperbacks — something about them fascinates me in the same way I am fascinated by infomercials. Not only are they often unintentionally hilarious, but they have a certain formula and flavour that promises to reveal something about how marketing, emotion, and motivation interact. So I’ve [...]
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A couple of links for my poor little neglected blog.

By Michelle | Published: May 11, 2010
We’re getting ready to move, so that partially explains my absence. We’re also in the midst of renovation hell at my current building, which means we’ve been without heat (during a freak cold snap), without laundry facilities, without hot water, and sometimes without any water. And the electricity in one half of my apartment randomly [...]
Posted in News, Random Shit | 52 Comments

Site will be offline…

By Michelle | Published: April 28, 2010
…sometime today for a server upgrade. Expected to last an hour-ish, but you know how these things can go. Just FYI.
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“Worthless” foods.

By Michelle | Published: April 23, 2010
This has become a theme among so many of my clients right now, that I was going to write a really long, involved post about this, but really…I’m exhausted. So I’m just going to do this instead: ALL FOOD CONTAINS NUTRIENTS. NUTRIENTS ARE GOOD FOR YOU. NO, REALLY. I’M SERIOUS. Thanks for playing. Hug it [...]
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