Originally uploaded by mo pie Although we’re definitely not done with all the meta media aftermath (and Rachel has a good roundup today), I thought I’d take a break to share an actual post! About something else! Are you shocked? I was, when I read today that Miley Cyrus, the 15-year-old star otherwise known as [...]

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This link will take you straight to a .swf file of the post-show greenroom discussion.

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Originally uploaded by mo pie There are tons of great responses to our appearance on the Morning Show with Mike and Juliet. And I’m glad a lot of them are challenging what I thought was the most ridiculous statement on the show, MeMe Roth’s assertion that there would be “public outrage” if we were going [...]

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Check out MoPie’s national television debut on the Mike and Juliet Show! She makes the case for acceptance and less judgment without making grand generalizations (*cough*). Rachel from F-Word also nails the point home, plus, bonus, we get to watch their cute husbands too! Look at the fat girls who are married! That never happens! [...]

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As I’m writing this, I’m getting ready to head over to the studio. So hello, people in the future! Did you see the show? What did you think? I’ll report back and let you know what the experience was like for me. (And to anyone who may be visiting after seeing the show, you may [...]

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Here’s another manifesto, and I think Meowser knocks it out of the park. I will say that fat hate is one of the last forms of prejudice in which even most people who are subjected to it think they are getting exactly what they deserve. And I find that totally unacceptable. BMI is now being [...]

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Rachel posted this today: I received a call today inviting me to be on Fox’s Morning Show with Mike and Juliet on Monday morning in New York. The fabulous Lara Frater and maybe one other blogger will be joining me in response to the New York Times article on fat acceptance bloggers. Wait, wait. Here’s [...]

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I was going to save this for Feel Good Friday, but instead it will be here, on Feel Ambivalent Thursday. First the good news: Norbit has been nominated for a ton of Razzies: Murphy’s “Norbit,” released amid a film-honors season that earned Murphy an Academy Awards nomination for “Dreamgirls” last year, received eight Razzie nominations, [...]

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Here is the comment I was responding to, from cathy: What confuses me is the idea of this website. Mo called it a gateway to fat acceptance yet one of the contributers had gastric bypass and mo has a blog and has had for a few years dedicated to her attempts to lose weight? I [...]

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With an article at ABC News online. I haven’t had a chance to do more than skim it (although I didn’t say 1,500 comments per day, I said 1,500 visits per day). But look at the pretty screen shot!

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Okay, let’s talk about the New York Times piece. I wasn’t interviewed for the article, although I was told there might be a mention, and so I didn’t expect this blog to be featured so prominently, which was a delightful surprise when I saw the masthead in this morning’s paper. On the whole, I thought [...]

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…for featuring this blog in today’s Science Times section. I haven’t even had a chance to sit down and read the article, because I’ve been so busy at my actual job. But it’s been fun to get a huge spike in hits, many emails letting me know that people saw the article, and even some [...]

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At the gym yesterday, I saw that the Queen Latifah commercial for Jenny Craig is out—so I figured I should follow up on my original post about the issue. There was no sound, though, so I couldn’t hear it. So I just did a quick search and came up with an interview that is mostly [...]

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I loved reading this article about workout playlists. I’ve worked very hard on my playlist, which is incredibly cheesy and includes things like “Pop Goes My Heart” (Hugh Grant) and “I Think I Love You” as performed by American Idol’s Constantine. (I can’t help it; my response to that one is now Pavlovian.) I need [...]

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I think this letter and response speaks for itself. Maybe I’ll throw in a little bolding… Dear Prudence, I’m 24, and I’ve been with my boyfriend for about 18 months. We were friends in high school, then met again after college, and started living together almost immediately. We have been talking about marriage lately, which [...]

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Originally uploaded by mo pie Thanks to Anne, we have a fabulous giveaway on this Feel Good Friday, a size 14 leopard print Esther Williams style bathing suit. (You can get the measurements here.) In order to enter, all you need to do is take a photo of yourself that is somehow inspired by the [...]

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…or anywhere else, actually. What diet, you ask? Why, a little something called the Tapeworm Diet. Where, presumably, YOU SWALLOW A FUCKING TAPEWORM. Now I have provided this very short and rudimentary background to helminth therapy to create the idea of “good” worms versus “bad” worms… The beef tapeworm, in addition to immunoregulatory properties, produces [...]

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I still vividly remember going shopping for a prom dress with my mother and grandmother. I was a plus-sized teenager and, because they were clueless, they took me to a lot of stores that didn’t carry plus-sized clothes. I remember a lot of salespeople who would look me up and down, then turn to my [...]

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Another sciency study, this time looking at a part of the brain (the left posterior amygdala, or LPA as I like to call it) that registers fullness. Scientists found that the higher the subject’s BMI, the less active the LPA was. Hopefully you can look past the headline and enjoy the science part: Each study [...]

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The idea of height insecurity was touched on in the comments of a recent post, and I thought it was worthy of some more discussion. Below are comments from Arlene, MarqueeMoon, and Beth. You know, everyone is always going on and on and on about how models are so impossibly skinny and set an impossible [...]

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My dad’s best friend likes to send out “funny” spam emails, and because I have respect for my elders and everything, I just silently delete them. A couple of weeks ago he sent one over with the subject line, “No matter what your politics, this is hilarious!” The hilarity in question is the subject of [...]

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According to Wired magazine, chewing too much gum can have a laxative effect and cause dramatic weight loss. Given that most weight-loss drugs have a difficult time producing one-pound per week weight loss, you might think the scientists would trumpet these findings as a prelude to the newest blockbuster pharmaceutical. But sadly, the drop in [...]

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Last night’s episode of Ugly Betty featured Betty advocating for a “healthy models” fashion show. According to the TWoP recap: Betty asks if they couldn’t show a wider range of women — normal, but not deathy. Finally, someone stands up for the non-deathy women in fashion! Okay, besides Tyra. Betty had the graphics department put [...]

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From the fine network that brought you such titles as Mother May I Sleep With Danger? and Baby Monitor: Sound of Fear comes a film that may be of more interest than usual, as it stars Nikki Blonsky of Hairspray fame as a plus-sized girl. The movie is called Queen Sized. Unlike Hairspray, which was [...]

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I’ve never watched The Biggest Loser, but I really enjoyed our own Weetabix’s post at Elastic Waist all about why she hates it. It’s a top ten list, and you know how we all love lists. 4. The weigh-in uniform. Girls wear just a sports bra but the guys get to have some modesty by [...]

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