BamaGal
This is a fantastic blog. It has helped me to gain control over my own eating disorder. It helps people to accept themselves as they are. Not to have their entire self worth be wrapped up in how much they weigh.
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The-F-Word
http://www.the-f-word.org/blog
Myriad factors shape our relationship with food. The-F-word strives to provide a platform to explore the circuitous relationship between women, food, power and body image.
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Please, ax the AXE
I am crazy allergic to poison ivy so the first sight of angry red bumps on my arm yesterday had me perusing the first aid aisle at Walgreen’s and mildly contemplating self-amputation. When we were kids, my brother and I would get poison ivy so bad...
How to answer “Am I fat?”
I lost 175 pounds in one year, in large part, from an eating disorder. Although my body had been shaken like a great Etch-a-Sketch, I couldn’t see the new picture. My eyes betrayed me. The mirror lied. No matter how much weight I lost, I still ...
Open thread: Favorite workout DVDs
I’m not the class kind of gym-goer and besides, my company gym doesn’t offer any classes even if I were the kind to join a roomful of women attempting to become human pretzels. I’m also about as rhythmic as, say, Frankenstein on fi...
Reader Challenge: Healthy meals on a food stamp budget
To follow-up on yesterday’s post about childhood obesity and poverty, I thought it might be interesting to present a reader challenge. Let’s say you are a single mother of two grade school-age children. Your children are on summer break...
The neediest kids of all
Meet Teddy. I adopted him when he was less than two weeks old after finding him and his runt brother in my dad’s flowerbed. I only meant to foster them, but his brother’s death from pneumonia and encephalitis cemented Teddy’s role as the new ...
