And I’m going to be spending it with the fam. Feel free to use this as an open thread if there’s anything we should all know about or if you need to vent because your family makes you feel guilty about how much you weigh. (Oh, is that just me? Nevermind.) (Now I feel bad [...]

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Passive Aggressive Notes is a website that features… um… passive aggressive notes. This one was received by a group of three diners who out were having lunch, and were passed a note by a woman at the next table, who signed her name Angela. You can read the whole note at the site, but here [...]

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I knew about Madison magazine from Project Runway Australia, as it is the Elle/Marie Claire of that show (“The winner of Project Runway will receive a spread in Madison magazine…”). Now Beautiful You has a post about the plus-sized celebrities who posed nude for their October issue. More pictures at the link; mildly NSFW. The [...]

Filed under: Advocacy, Biggest Loser, Celebrities, International, Magazines, NSFW, Project Runway, TV | 8 Comments »

Watching less TV = weight loss! At least that’s what the headlines will be saying about this “not statistically significant” study of 20 people whose TVs were electronically restricted. When their TV watching was cut by half, they burned more calories. Overweight and obese individuals whose TVs were fitted with an electronic “lock-out” device to [...]

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In case you’re wondering where I’ve gone this week, it’s finals week (well it’s the first of two finals weeks, but we won’t talk about that) and I am busy writing, giving, and grading finals! In the meantime I’m loving the fashion do’s and don’ts you guys have come up with; it’s given me wardrobe [...]

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I realized the other day while purchasing yet another sweater with horizontal stripes that I actually have a lot of clothes that have stripes on them. For a long time that was a big fashion no-no in my brain, because STRIPES = FAT = OMG! = AAH! But then I stopped worrying about it. My [...]

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I was working on a post recently that involved some kind of pun about plus-sized paper dolls, and then I wondered if there were any plus-sized paper dolls, and then found this link. Download both the dolls and their outfits from this site, and enjoy!

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Thanks to @lilowen, who apparently has a long memory, for the heads up on this item! We first wrote about Sara Rue all the way back in aught six, when she lost a bunch of weight and it was speculated (by gossipy people) that she’d had weight loss surgery and had to have it reversed. [...]

Filed under: Advertising, Celebrities, Gossip, Reese Witherspoon, Sara Rue, WLS, Weight Loss | 30 Comments »