Category Archives: Liking Yourself

A love affair with gravity.

By Michelle | Published: July 22, 2011

for Katricia Since I started doing this crazy accept-my-body thing eleven years ago, there has been a series of ups and downs with my own body image. I go through good times, I go through bad times. Sometimes really, really bad times. Over the years, the good times get longer and the bad times get [...]

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Pictures of you.

By Michelle | Published: May 29, 2011

If all you ever saw were daisies, being confronted with a rose might freak you out. I’m thinking today about body image. My body image, to be specific, and the way I feel when suddenly confronted with photographs of myself taken by other people, showing my whole body. The experience is one of immediate shock, [...]

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Saying goodbye to my waist.

By Michelle | Published: March 22, 2010

This is going to be a rambly, self-indulgent, stream-of-consciousness kind of post, so I apologize in advance. But it recently occurred to me that I have been in a long, gradual process of saying goodbye to my waist. I’ll explain. As a teenager, I was never thin. I passed for mostly normal (with a big [...]

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Dear Fat Nutritionist – You’re pretty good looking (for a girl.)

By Michelle | Published: December 3, 2009

There’s been some talk about the way I look in comments this week, which always brings up issues for me. Then I received the following email this morning, and I thought it was the perfect way to address this issue — which is not just a personal one, but very closely tied to fat acceptance [...]

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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 [...]

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