Author: Michelle

  • Willy Wonka and the chocolate fantasy.

    A famous actress was quoted in the newspaper regarding a role that required her to gain weight. Something about the quote struck me as odd. To paraphrase, she said, “Sure, it sounds great to gain weight. You can indulge all your fantasies of endless chocolate, unlimited pasta and garlic bread…but after a while your blood…

  • Failure.

    I’ve spent several years of my life feeling like it is my duty to other people to look the same way I looked at 16. Which is not only stupid, but impossible. People age and change, and I want to be relaxed and happy with those changes. There was nothing wrong with me as a…

  • Health At Every Size: choice or coercion?

    I wanted to address was something I read a while back, and have been sort of turning over in the back of my head ever since. [Via The Fat Girl.] These are the fat acceptance zealots — using fat acceptance and ‘in your face’ fat imagery and messages in order to shock the world into…

  • Why diets are stupid.

    If you don’t already know, I’m going to be the one to break it to you…and you can trust me on this. Diets are stupid. The word ‘diet’ has become terribly perverted from its original, life-affirming definition. In the original sense, diet meant: “food and drink regularly provided or consumed; habitual nourishment.” (www.webster.com.) In the…

  • 98% figure and Weight Control Registry.

    I found a fascinating PDF file* on the internet regarding certain myths about dieting/nutrition. One of the myths mentioned was the oft-quoted “98% of diets fail” statistic. This paper makes a valiant effort to show why the number is a myth but, in my opinion, falls short. Why? Because they claim the number comes from…