Category Archives: Liking Yourself

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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Accepting the unacceptable.

By Michelle | Published: August 14, 2009
This summer has been hard for me. I’m not going to lie. I started it off by turning 30, which I was extremely excited about. I’m a bit sentimental when it comes to numbers, and I was doing the whole clean-slate-fresh-start thing in my head. And there have been a lot of good changes recently, [...]
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Getting reacquainted.

By Michelle | Published: June 11, 2009
For the past week, I’ve been dealing with a semi-stressful situation that kind of knocked me off my foundation a bit and made me wonder “Oh god, am I really cut out for this whole writing/website/openly-being-who-I-am thing??” And I didn’t write anything, because, naturally, that’s what you do when you’re gripped with an irrational fear [...]
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How procrastinating is sort of like dieting. Or something.

By Michelle | Published: June 3, 2009
I woke up this morning feeling slightly terrified. Yes, I believe a person can be slightly terrified, though it might be more elegantly expressed as a feeling of dread, or impending doom. It’s quiet; it’s in the background — but it’s definitely there. It’s omnipresent. Since I believe in kindness and compassion, for other people, [...]
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What’s all this, then?

By Michelle | Published: June 1, 2009
It’s my blog about normal eating. You’re reading it. So, I’m working on this thing I like to call my Unified Theory of Kicking Ass. What that means is, I’m reading and learning stuff about normal eating and nutrition and how people change their behaviour. I have a pretty decent understanding of this stuff already, [...]
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