This year I don’t have a resolution. I have a non-resolution. My New Year’s Resolution is to not have a resolution to lose weight, diet, or drop a pant size. I see it every year — women vowing to lose belly fat, to stop eating chocolate, to detox diet. And companies notice it, too, and they ...
Are you tired of hearing people go on about weight loss? I sure am. And to add to the pot of self-loathing pot, Senator Claire McCaskill decided to announce to all of her Twitter followers that she was going to lose 50 pounds. And now she has reached her goal. Well, woop-de-doo to that. “I’m ...
Nearly every night on the news, there’s some new study about what makes us fat. Obesity is an epidemic and nobody is immune. So what do you do? You get a gym membership, start running, try the new diet Pippa’s on, or you apply to be on The Biggest Loser. You start doing whatever it ...
Do you know what you’re putting in your body? A new study has found that chemical phthalates found in cleaning and beauty products could be the real culprits behind many weight struggles. Doctors at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York found that the chemicals found in 70 percent of beauty and cleaning products have ...
We already know Americans eat too much, but why do we have to hear about it over and over? We’re consumed with what foods make us fat, creating a toxic relationship with food. Just today I learned that diet soda leads to weight gain and consuming too many snacks leads to an expanding waistline. I ...
“Love your Body” pages on social networking sites like Tumblr are becoming more and more popular as women especially are trying to love themselves. But the routes they are taking seem dangerous. Are they doing more harm than good? Thinking back to my own darker anorexic/bulimic days, I remember my favourite ana site. My anorexic ...
Pregnancy is a time where women should be able to pig out without the guilt. It’s dinner for two every night! But a dangerous new trend reflects that the pressure to be thin is affecting moms. Celebrities like Victoria Beckham, Rachel Zoe and reality star Bethenny Frankel are starving themselves during and post-pregnancy in an ...
It’s no secret that young girls feel the pressure to be thin every day. They receive mixed messages about accepting who they are and changing who they are to conform to an unattainable ideal. The heavy burden is weighing down on them and keeping them up at night, according to a revealing new study. Researchers ...
As soon as New Year celebrations pass, infomercials start harrowing you with exercise plans and diets to prepare your body for the star accessory of summer: the swimsuit. Judging from the banged-out, super slim figures of the women in those ads, being fit for summer is an insurmountable task but a new study reveals that ...
Most women believe that men want skinny women. The majority probably do. But it’s best if they were fat first. Men believe that women who have gone through a physical transformation are ultimately “more friendly, approachable, clever and creative than [their] constantly thin counterparts.” They shed excess weight, but remain heavy mentally. For women, the ...
So, we’re having this baby. It’s due in a few weeks and we’re trying to get organized with all...
I recently heard about what is claimed to be the rising phenomenon of Japanese men remaining virgins for longer...
Ladders. Patriarchal conspiracy. I’ll explain… This week I climbed a ladder. I was trying to reach a loft space,...
Dear Madame X, My boyfriend needs to look at porn while we have sex. It bothers me because I...
Mrs. Dalloway is yet another feminist classic that I had to grow into. Wrapped up in Woolf’s instantly recognizable...
Last week saw a Big Thing come to our soggy little island. Well, it was a Big Thing for...
Last weekend I was entertaining a guest, you know, the sort I was planning to have lots and lots...
All little girls want to be princesses… right?! It’s bad enough that toy aisles are separated out by what...
