I HATE my . . .
Did you hear the echo of women everywhere responding with the speed of light?
Fat legs, flabby stomach, beaky nose, round eyes, thin lips, bulgy cheeks, flat breasts and on and on.
Last night I was indulging in trashy television, which I allow myself to do when my daughter isn’t […]
Laurie Toby Edison of Body Impolitic asked me to guest blog. I submitted Body Image: No Name Calling about how I try to teach Ainsley that the habit of self-deprecation is wrong and carries a real cost to the self-esteem.
Thanks to Laurie for the opportunity. Laurie will be sitting on the BlogHer panel about body […]
In the same vein as the Normal Breasts Gallery, which I wrote about earlier this week on both Blog Fabulous and Empowering Girls: So Sioux Me, we have The Shape of a Mother.
Both galleries are beautiful and artful acts of passive resistance to the media message “You’re not good enough.”
Real mothers have boldly […]
I can’t tell you how often I hear women criticize their own breasts.
I often hear, I just want “normal” breasts. The owner of the breasts has generally stood before a mirror and compared her own image to the images she sees on television, in movies, in magazines and on the Internet.
But, those aren’t NORMAL breasts. […]
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Angry. Moody. Irratible. Cramped. Shoved in. Judged. Restricted. Oppressed. Repressed. Hostile. Wrong. Fat. Unacceptable. Picked Apart. Flawed. Pinched. Unworthy. Squished. Frustrated. When I quit smoking and realized what a blatently hostile and self-destructive act it was to my own self. I vowed to show my own self more kindness from here on out. This is me in a girdle […]
Did you check out Nancy Maskin on Oprah?
She weighed in at 703 pounds and lost 530 of them. She was a shut-in for 12 years.
Her miracle? The Internet.
Because people couldn’t see her, they couldn’t dismiss her. It was her first contact with the outside world in which she wasn’t invisible. Through people in political chat rooms that […]
This is an apt description of the body image issues women face. I worry about my daughter, but I also know the devastating effect this type of media onslaught has on the grown women I know. We reduce women to things. Are you a pretty thing or an ugly thing?
Guess what? We’re not things. We’re […]
Hanging out with one of my saner friends, Jen - you might know her from the Blogosphere - I confessed to buying a new gym outfit.
Since losing weight I’ve resisted wasting money on clothes I’m going to wear for a few months until I lose more. Especially on work out clothes. It seems like the least […]
Can public criticism, say from an entire nation, make you change your hair and face in a drastic way? Would you change your hair color? Would you surgically alter your face?
Marsha Clark, attorney in the infamously televised OJ Simpson trial did. She’s now a blond who straightens her hair and wears a lot more make-up. The ladies on […]
So I weighed in this morning at 7 pounds less than 5 weeks ago.
That 2 hours before bed seems to be the magic key to weight loss. Well, that’s a little simplistic, because I made all the other changes first over the last year-and-a-half. - drinking water, extreme amounts of exercise, whole grain bread and noodles, baked not […]
Have you read YOU: The Owner’s Manual: An Insider’s Guide to the Body that Will Make You Healthier and Younger? Since reading it I’ve been reading the backs of labels.
I didn’t know it but High Fructose Corn Syrup is my favorite food on the planet. I’m actually unsure if it’s possible not to eat it. […]
I missed my face.
My reflection is how I identify with my self.
It’s mysterious to me how I could look in the mirror every day, putting on make up, fixing my hair, or brushing my teeth and then be totally shocked when I saw a photo of myself. I was fat and didn’t see it. The power […]
My husband and I are doing Bob Greene’s The Best Life Diet. Of course, I saw it on Oprah. Whatever you think about Oprah, and hopefully you love and adore her as I do, she is definitely the most public dieter on the planet. This qualifies her as a diet expert in my opinion and I’m […]
Star Jones, formerly of The View, tells all in the first person on Glamour.com. It’s a raw look at the emotional after-effects of gastric bypass surgery, and why she was trying to keep it private while on The View. She’s lost 160 pounds in three years.
Four years later, I have been successful in maintaining a healthy weight […]
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