Meet Dan: blogger, music lover, foodie, travel enthusiast, longtime friend to FFG and her LSP, fitness devotee, after losing about 90 pounds.
Guest Post: Former Fat Guy Responds to HAES
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Tag Archives: health
Four Failures
ONE:
I will never forget my first time. I sat rigidly on a small black chair with a short back, faced the expansive mirrored wall in front of me, and gripped a 15 pound dumbbell in each hand. I raised the weights into position beside my shoulders, and paused, looking intently at my reflection in the mirror. Then I began to lift the weights overhead, making a sweeping arc while breathing in and out as I had been taught. Continue reading
A Skinny-Fat Girl Responds to HAES (guest blogger)
I first came across the Health at Every Size movement almost eight months ago, while in an anthropology class at the University of Alberta. My professor assigned Rothblum and Solovay’s The Fat Studies Reader as a required textbook, which immediately caught my attention; I had of course heard of gender studies, race studies, and queer studies, but fat studies? What, I wondered, could be said about fatness? Continue reading
Foot Fascism
‘Badges? We don’t need no stinking badges!’ In a childhood flashback, I picture my younger brother quoting the Blazing Saddles version of this phrase, using a ridiculous Mexican accent. Continue reading
I Suffer, Therefore I Am
Let me complete this phrase: I suffer, therefore I am…a rather useless, self-absorbed asshole. Which officially makes me middle class. Well it was bound to happen one day, given my relentless pursuit of cultural capital. Continue reading
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