Fat OR fit? Fat AND fit? Part 1: Fatness as a proxy
“Some girls are bigger than others / Some girls’ mothers are bigger than other girls’ mothers.” –Morrisey Over the last several months, I have turned the twin elements of fatness and fitness over in my...
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Fat OR fit? Fat AND fit? Part 2: What’s “fit”? What’s “natural”?
Fitness is a quality that is context-dependent. Our notion of fitness (thanks to the work of Kenneth Cooper, father of the modern aerobic movement) is the marathon runner, the endurance athlete who is...
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Why don’t you look like a fitness model?
Some time ago a reader emailed me to ask why I did not look like a fitness model. She proceeded to suggest that perhaps my advice was not good if I did not provide evidence that said advice had worked....
View ArticleFat AND fit? Fat OR fit? Part 3: Genetics and the “health conspiracy”
the role of genetics I call my mother’s side of the family the Dominant Gene Family. This is because they all look alike. The men are spitting images of one another, separated from identical twindom...
View ArticleEverything you need to know, right here
I posted this as a comment response elsewhere but I think it bears mentioning here too. Folks are always asking me, “I want to do X but also Y and Z and it’s not working and I’m getting discouraged.”...
View ArticleInterview with Gillian Mounsey
Where do your fitness role models come from? Magazine covers? Supplement ads? Images with no basis in reality? Imagined “perfect people”, captured two-dimensionally at the height of their aesthetic...
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Can you disordered-eating-proof your kids?
Hello parents! Baby high heels — WTF?! Photo credit: Vanessa Bertozzi Has your baby quit freaking out about her reflection in a mirror, thinking it’s another evil baby about to attack her and steal her...
View ArticleWhat is ninja crapping? Is your “solution” actually your problem?
And many more questions answered by me in this fun, fearless, femmechat interview with the excellent Summer Innanen. From Summer’s writeup: In this MUST-LISTEN-TO episode, we talk about: Krista’s...
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38 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Choosing
When I speak to audiences of health, nutrition, and fitness professionals, as well as clients who are in the midst of life changes, I am often struck by how many of them approach the project of making...
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Your Dreams Are Probably Stupid And Nobody Cares (That’s a Good Thing)
When I was a little kid, I had an idea about what the afterlife would involve. I thought that after I died, I’d go to some place where a bunch of people, sort of like the chorus in a Greek tragedy,...
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