Okay, later in the week we will definitely be talking about the BFDudes, but for now, let’s help BFDiva Rebecka (and the rest of the girls, and their girls) with the age-old dilemma of finding a good bra, shall we? Take it away, Rebecka:
I am desperate to find a REALLY good bra, for the larger [...]
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Well, it’s certainly an unconventional approach, but apparently Selma Blair thinks its a good idea.
The Hellboy star admits she is always criticising her looks, and the only thing she likes about her body is her hands. And when filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro suggested that taking [...]
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I think it was Ian who first pointed me to this article in The New York Times about the development of an exercise pill, although the conversation seems to have exploded everywhere. Let’s hop on that bandwagon! First, from the NYT article:
Aicar signals to the cell that it has burned off energy and [...]
Filed under: Exercise, Personal, Question, Weight Loss | 28 Comments »
I’m suspicious, in general, of nutrition information provided by restaurants. The lowfat ice cream cone at McDonald’s is supposedly 150 calories, but I’ve had them hand me a cone that was piled so high with swirls that it was about to tip over, the dairy equivalent of a game of Jenga. I know full [...]
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Igigi MeetupOriginally uploaded by mo pie
Plus-size designer Igigi was the official sponsor of the BFD meetup at BlogHer. This meant that me, Weetabix, and three of our lovely readers got to pick out outfits from the Igigi website to wear and review at the convention. I went to Igigi on Friday morning to [...]
Filed under: BlogHer08, Fashion, Guest Post, Meta, Personal, Review | 24 Comments »
We all know that there is no such thing as an “ideal beauty,” right? And that we women shouldn’t define ourselves or our self-worth according to what men find sexy, right? It is with this disclaimer in place, then, that I tell you the preferred body type for men, according to this survey (link NSFW) [...]
Filed under: Feminism, International, Magazines, NSFW, Personal, Question, Sex & Romance | 36 Comments »
How do these two things connect to each other? Well, I’m heading off to start the BlogHer fun this evening, and this morning I had a new Starbucks Vivanno Chocolate-Banana-Espresso smoothie. So, they kind of don’t connect at all. Maybe we should also talk about Dr. Horrible’s Singalong Blog, so this can be truly random. [...]
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A study released yesterday attempts to answer that important question, dividing adolescent girls into groups like “Jocks,” “Burnouts,” and “Alternatives,” and discovering that their peer groups are the most important deciding factor. From the press release:
The central theme of the study is that peer groups of teenage girls best determine their attitude towards their [...]
Filed under: Advocacy, Exercise, Kids, Personal, Question, Science | 43 Comments »
Over the weekend, I was thinking about traditionally “healthy” or “unhealthy” foods. You know, the old “good” and “bad” foods, if we were assigning morality to food, which we totally are not doing. I was thinking about the “healthy” foods I love and those I hate, and the “unhealthy” foods I love and [...]
Filed under: Food, Personal, Question | 50 Comments »
I was at the Bubble Lounge with Anne on Friday night, dressed up in our elbow-length gloves, eating chocolate-dipped strawberries, and sipping champagne. (Tangent: I was wearing a dress with the totally wrong undergarments and felt very self-conscious about it. Of course it was also very low cut, and as I was walking to [...]
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We’ve helped a 21-year-old, a 16-year-old, and a 14-year-old. Now we have a 12-year-old, and we have a tough job ahead of us. You see, she isn’t looking for body image advice. She went to the site hello i am fat (funny blog title; sad search term) because she wants to be skinny like [...]
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I’ve read a lot of blogs and books and heard a lot of anecdotal evidence from people who have lost weight, especially a great deal of weight, talking about the radical difference in how they are treated when they’re fat versus when they’re thin. (You also hear this from celebrities who have put on and [...]
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I’m fried at work today and I spent the morning at the dentist, so here’s a random post off the top of my head. I always love hearing what Jane Espenson is having for lunch, so let’s find out what’s on the menu for the rest of us today!
I don’t even have a great [...]
Filed under: Food, Meta, Personal, Question, Work | 54 Comments »
First, there was the 14-year-old who wanted to know how to feel beautiful. Then, the 16-year-old athlete dealing with bulimia. Here’s another e-mail from a young woman (this time she’s 21) looking for some support and help from Big Fat Deal. Bolding mine.
So I really don’t know how to start this e-mail. [...]
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When I was in junior high, I read V.C. Andrews and The Baby-sitters Club, not Sweet Valley High. I do remember seeking out the one where someone named, I think, Regina dies of a cocaine overdose. But beyond that, I wasn’t interested. I just couldn’t relate to Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield. I was neither [...]
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venus of willendorf Originally uploaded by mo pie
Last week, I was in Vienna. One of the things we did there was to visit the Museum of Natural History, specifically to see the 25,000-year-old Venus of Willendorf. (I had no idea this piece was in Vienna; [...]
Filed under: Art, Feminism, International, Old Timey, Personal | 16 Comments »
Our guest post today comes from the delightful Sara, who writes in with a question for all our readers:
I am fat. I have diabetes. The two are in no way related to one another. Interesting how that works, huh? I have type 1 diabetes, so my pancreas is going to be [...]
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A fun list of the 25 most ridiculous diets of all time. The tapeworm diet appears, of course, but the baby food diet does not. Egregious oversight! My favorite one on the list is number twelve:
The Weight Loss Cure They Don’t Want You to Know About: This diet gives the tapeworm a run for [...]
Filed under: Feel Good Friday, Personal, Question, Weight Loss | 56 Comments »
Apart from times when I’ve been tracking Weight Watchers points, I haven’t really been in the habit of tracking my eating. And I found myself becoming curious about exactly what I was eating—how many calories, how many grams of protein, vitamins, etc. So I signed up for a free account on FitDay, a site [...]
Filed under: Food, Health, Meta, Personal, Science | 59 Comments »
In the comments, Stacey Stardust asks: how do you know a guy is flirting with you?
This may sound like an incredibly dim-witted question, but I never got hit on a lot when I was a size 12-14 (my ’skinny time’ ;)) and I certainly don’t think I get hit on at all now. When a [...]
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