My family has noticed. My friends have noticed. Some friendships have suffered for it. My boyfriend has taken note. My coworkers are second guessing themselves. I’m torturing (lovingly!) people with my incessant questioning of the words we use when talking about health, obesity & fat. People are starting to apologize after they say things to [...]

I simply want to draw attention to an article here on The Daily Beast that re-references a 2005 study that purports, “‘when the economy is clearly and uniformly tanking what will emerge is some kind of a shift to more of an ideal of a fuller, plumper woman’” (as stated by one of the scientists).  [...]

It’s the kitchen, silly! You know…that place we hardly seem to frequent. That place where we store our take-out containers. Oh brother!  I used to spend a lot of time in the kitchen; but it was usually a Friday night and I was usually baking chocolate chip cookies for “everyone” while watching TGIF nights on [...]

At the prompting of a friend whose name I will not disclose, I’ve decide to take up the topic of boyfriends and how they make their girlfriends fat.  Ok ok, they don’t “make” us fat, but they certainly create a path lined in gold wrapped candy and stand at the end with a Kudos Bar.  [...]

Let’s be honest — We all like to “fat out” every once in a while. I’m not going to lie and sit here on some metaphorical anti-fat throne – I LOVE to eat some pretty awful foods. I also suffer from quick chocolate reflex, a disorder in which my brain cannot control my hand so [...]