I haven’t been able to find anything on this singer, but she’s gorgeous and apparently a little pissed off about small portions. Who blames her? Also, I wish my bangs would do that.

Filed under: Fat Positive, Music | 12 Comments »

Even 3,500 years ago, there were awesome fat women. Some of us even ruled the world. A mummy found in the Valley of the Kings in 1881 has been positively identified as the Pharaoh Queen Hatshepsut. She usurped power from her son, reigned for 22 years, wore a false beard, built great monuments, and was [...]

Filed under: International, Old Timey | 13 Comments »

Have you ever been surprised by the nutritional content of something you’ve eaten? When I was on Weight Watchers, that happened to me a lot. For instance, I knew the Starbucks brownie bites weren’t healthy, but they’re so small that I figured eating one or two as a treat couldn’t be that bad. Once I [...]

Filed under: Food, Health | 30 Comments »

First, Lena from Mamapop posts pictures of Mandy Moore and asks, chubby or hot? I can’t decide: is this girl pretty or not? One day she’s chubby, the next she’s hot. It’s so hard to be judgmental when she’s not consistent! Of course, we can all see the problem with this statement. She’s only “pretty” [...]

Filed under: Celebrities, Fatism, Gossip, Mandy Moore, Media | 17 Comments »

Although the name of the website Lose Weight Or Die is basically a Fat Hate Bingo square, Spidey the blogger is upset by how many hateful, anti-fat videos show up on YouTube merely by searching for the word “ugly.” Ugly, of course, being synonymous with “fat.” But he takes it a step further and talks [...]

Filed under: Fatism, Video | 36 Comments »

Your hero and mine, Joy Nash, has a brand new blog, in case you want to go over and tell her that you love her. Here’s a little list of all the times we told her we loved her: The original fat rant post. Snowball effect. The other Joy Nash. Fat rant follow-ups from men. [...]

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This is actually pretty cool: without being told to exercise or change their lifestyles, overweight people with diabetes were able to lose weight and cut down on the need for diabetes medication. How? By eating off of a magical diet plate. [The] subjects used the so-called Diet Plate, a British-made tool that allows people to [...]

Filed under: Food, Health, International, Weight Loss | 20 Comments »

And if you don’t believe that, you should read this essay, which details the level of commitment it takes to lose weight and keep it off. From someone who has been there. That kind of willpower is not something that comes overnight, and the fortitude to do it long term, for life, is not something [...]

Filed under: Exercise, Weight Loss | 34 Comments »

good morning baltimore Originally uploaded by mo pie I thought of you guys today! We worked our way to the very front row of the stage at San Francisco Pride (the city’s annual gay pride festival) to see Nikki Blonsky’s performance of “Good Morning, Baltimore” from the upcoming movie Hairspray. She looked adorable; she sounded [...]

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Mika’s video for the fantastic “Big Girl You Are Beautiful” came out this week, and oh my, Mika is one truly beautiful boy. But this brings something up that’s been making me curious. Mika is being coy about his sexual orientation, which is totally within his right, but hmmm… something there makes me wonder if [...]

Filed under: Fat Positive, Music, Video | 22 Comments »

Speaking of advertising, have you seen the new Reebok “Run Easy” campaign? The message of the ads is that you don’t have to run like a competitive athlete; you can just “run easy.” In Reeboks, presumably. Those ads are plastered all over the Embarcadero station here in San Francisco and I notice them especially because [...]

Filed under: Advertising, Exercise, Media | 35 Comments »

I’m happy to brag that our very own Big Fat Deal has been selected as an Editor’s Pick on BUST Magazine’s Girl Wide Web. At the moment you can see us us right on the BUST main page, but we’re also at the top of their Our Bodies, Our Hells section, where you can give [...]

Filed under: Magazines, Media, Meta | 2 Comments »

As V’ron promised in the comments of a previous entry, she’s fighting back against some fat hate that she witnessed in her corporate life. By blogging about it! [Howard Tullman] mentioned early on that one of the programs they eliminated from Kendall College [of which he is the president] was the athletic programs. Was it [...]

Filed under: Fatism | 6 Comments »

Rosie O’Donnell loves Beth Ditto too! She’s put up a slideshow tribute, with photos taken at the True Colors tour concert this weekend. And here’s a quote from Rosie’s question-and-answer page from today: Carolyn writes: i hate being fat. today, more than normal, i hate being fat. Ro replies: honey go buy the gossip BETH [...]

Filed under: Beth Ditto, Celebrities, Music, Rosie O'Donnell, Video | 9 Comments »

Researchers have linked obesity in men to instances of lower IQ. This affects men, not women, with a BMI of 30 or more. This has led to headlines like “Obese Men ‘Have Lower IQs’” that fail to give the full picture, thus perpetuating the “fat and stupid” sterotype. The scientists who did the research, from [...]

Filed under: Health, Science | 19 Comments »

Is love, sweet love. And also, food. This fascinating Time magazine photo essay depicts families from all over the world along with examples of the foods they eat in a week. (It also lists what a week’s worth of food costs them.) Lots of processed foods in America, lots of fruits and veggies in Mexico, [...]

Filed under: Food, International | 14 Comments »

I should rename this blog “Kate Winslet Is Awesome” because I never miss an opportunity to point out that she is awesome. The latest is that she has refused to be airbrushed in her new ads for Lancôme. [She] only accepted the modelling gig if the company promised not to airbrush her for the poster [...]

Filed under: Advertising, Celebrities, Gossip, Kate Winslet | 16 Comments »

This series of Brazilian ads is making the rounds today; I found it on Shakesville. The ads feature iconic film images with the original thin women replaced with not-so-thin women. Which would be a brilliant, pro-fat idea… except the point is, it’s supposed to make you feel like you’re not sexy enough to be naked [...]

Filed under: Advertising, Fatism, International | 17 Comments »

Personal chefs, home gyms, lots of free time—we all know it’s easier to be thin when you’re rich. And if I were rich, I would totally try out one of those health spas. Not the ones with the eight-hour workouts, but the ones with, like, swimming and meditation and daily massages. (Note to people who [...]

Filed under: Cold Hard Cash, Health, International | 5 Comments »

I had exactly two words after watching this: The fuck? Reebok: Belly’s Gonna Get You Posted May 02, 2007 A beer belly gives a guy a mad chase down city streets.

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So that new weight loss drug, which we shall code name “Todd Packer,” has hit the market. And it is selling like hotcakes in spite of the fact that there is an outside chance that it causes colon cancer, and that it definitely causes you to poop your pants. “It’s probably a smart idea to [...]

Filed under: Advertising, Health, Science, The Office, Weight Loss | 15 Comments »

If pornographic images offend you, read no further! Or at least don’t click the links. Need I say these are not safe for work? My friends, they are not. I’m so used to seeing a certain image of the perfect porn girl (thin, big fake breasts) that it comes as something of a pleasant shock [...]

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From Red No. 3 comes today’s genius idea: Fat Hate Bingo and Fat Hate Bingo 2! Featuring all your favorite fat-hating slogans like “You must be delusional if you think it’s okay to be fat” and “You’d be so cute if you just lost weight” and “But you’re going to die!” I have to say [...]

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It is obvious (at least to us) that fat people can and do exercise. And yet as a fat person who joined a very crowded gym near work yesterday, it’s still nice to be reminded of that fact. (I haven’t figured out my summer fitness regime yet, but I do know I have one. Maybe [...]

Filed under: Exercise, Fat Positive, Health | 35 Comments »

I finally have an excuse to write about the comic strip everyone loves to hate, For Better or For Worse. If you read Pop Culture Junk Mail or Fresh Hell (I linked to both of their FBOFW categories) you’ve already been following the saga of Liz and her hateful true love, Anthony. (If you want [...]

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