“Try an almond stacked on top of a dried apricot — it tastes like a cookie. Really.”

Um… no. I’m not exactly a foodologist, but I’m pretty sure that this snack would taste like a nut on top of a dried piece of fruit.

Sometimes we get so inundated with this kind of ridiculous advice that we need a reality check. Yes, it’s ridiculous to drink hot lemon water instead of eating. I mean, come on! What are we, Cheerios?

“Sometimes I add a teaspoon of sand.”

For its June 2010 issue, French Marie Claire has gone curvy with editorials featuring plus-size models in lingerie and swimsuits à la française–that’s right, only bottoms, no tops!

Of course, these are all models, so “plus-size” is like a size 10. I personally took a counterbalancing stroll through some wonderful recent pieces at Adipositivity. Mostly NSFW. Except this one, which I love. And this one!

It made me want to take my own half-naked pictures, even if I wouldn’t necessarily post them on the Internet for the world to see. But there’s so much beauty in all types of bodies. It really is lovely to be reminded of that.

Happy Friday!

2. Here is what you learn very early, as a young woman prone to fatness, even before puberty: My body is bad. My body is disgusting. My body is something for me to fight against. My body will not cooperate with my desire to be thin. My body is a disappointment to the people around me. I hate how all these studies and articles just assume as true that it is the natural order of things that fat girls will feel bad about themselves, as if this is, in fact, the proper way to view yourself when you are fat. No, this is not natural. This does not come from looking in the mirror. Girls are inculcated with messages that fatness is bad and that their bodies are their enemies. Loving your body is not option. That fatness-shame, combined with the puberty-shame of our puritanical, anti-woman, anti-sex culture, means that at the onset of puberty fat girls undergo deep, deep dissociation with their bodies. This happens to all kinds of girls, but especially fat girls.

There’s a lot more: go read! Especially teenagers and the teenager-adjacent. And let me know what you think.

Check out that insane eye makeup and lipstick!

The awesome shape of that dress, which breaks all the fat-girl muumuu rules!

The ruffly crazy thing! The color! The attitude.

Makes me want to pack something wacky to wear to Forbidden Zone this weekend.

Beth Ditto, you are awesome, as ever.

Please do not take this the wrong way, I am just concerned for your health. Have you considered Weight Watchers?

This was sent to a coworker. A pregnant coworker, no less. And the note-sender clearly did not realize this woman was pregnant. Things that are wrong about this include: using the phrase “Please don’t take this the wrong way,” lecturing a coworker about her weight as if it’s any of your business what she weighs or why she’s gained weight, doing so anonymously, and doing so via Post-It note, which any viewer of Sex and the City could tell you is NOT THE WAY TO GO.

Passive Aggressive Notes boiled it down to: mind your own business. And amen to that.

Thanks to Nonk for the link!

Music was originally used by cavemen… to drive fat chicks away.

Just a throwaway bit, but it pissed me off. The implication that music is for men, and the casual “ha, ha, no fat chicks!” humor.

It reminds me of the morning show they used to have, whose sports reporter was an awesome zaftig chick (hell yeah) but whose male DJs still made tons of “hyuck hyuck, fat chicks are gross” jokes.

The world? Makes me tired sometimes.

The diet involves eating 14 servings of baby food a day followed by a healthy adult dinner, and Jen has reportedly lost 7 pounds in the past week.

Yeah, that sounds healthy.

The Baby Food Diet (and the famous people who love it) is a plot point in the young adult novel I just wrote! (Pear and pineapple, which I tasted for research purposes thanks to my friend Aych, makes an appearance.) So I’d better finish editing my novel so I can sell it and become rich and famous on Jennifer Aniston’s coattails while the Baby Food Diet is still making headlines.

So, I have been trying to help my similarly-weighty fiance to find clothes and I found it even more difficult to find interesting, fashion-forward clothing options for him than I’ve ever experienced shopping for myself. I mean, there’s absolutely nothing… at least, nothing I could find with extensive searching outside of the realm of big-n-tall plain t-shirts and polos.

I thought this would be an interesting topic to discuss. When it comes to plus sized women, there are a number of outlets for our fashionista needs to be fulfilled (albeit only 4x and below and most of this shopping must be done online) but what about our male counterparts? Does anyone on the site know of any suggestions for fashionable and unique clothing options for a plus sized male in his twenties?

This is a great question, and on behalf of BFDudes everywhere, I look forward to the answers!