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The Big Fat Money Bomb — Donate Today

February 2, 2012

If you’re against weight bullying and a believer that health, not weight, is the true important measure, you’ll be interested in this effort spearheaded by Ragen Chastain of Dances with Fat. To quote Ragen, “For the last 9 months, every single day, children in Atlanta have seen billboards, commercials, and signs at bus stops like [...]

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Thursday Thoughts: Daily Affirmations, Paula Deen & Type 2 Diabetes

January 19, 2012

Because we’re doing Fitness Fridays much of the time now on the blog, I thought I’d put together my round-up of interesting posts on Thursday, at least this week.  No promises for the future, though.  We have so much going on at Green Mountain these days — all good — but it’s taking me away [...]

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Losing the Body Fantasy: Guest Post

January 10, 2012

We’re delighted to have Mara of Medicinal Marzipan here this week, participating in our special week on Mastering Binge Eating, Compulsive Eating & Emotional Eating with Dr. Carolyn Coker Ross.  Medicinal Marzipan is about body image and authentic living, both big issues for many of us who struggle with eating and weight.  Following is a [...]

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Support HAES with Your Holiday Shopping

November 29, 2011

When you shop from links on http://www.plussizeyellowpages.com, a small percentage of the sale will go to Lifestyle Watchers(R), a new non-profit organization dedicated to providing an alternative to weight watching and yo-yo dieting. Lifestyle Watchers is the brainchild of psychotherapist Kelly Bliss, who developed the Plus Size Yellow Pages back in 2000.  She’s spent a [...]

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Is the War on Obesity Worth Fighting?

October 25, 2011

Today’s post is written by Marci Anderson, RD, a registered dietitian in the Boston area who works exclusively with people who struggle with eating disorders, body image and weight concerns, as well as emotional and compulsive eating.  The post details her thoughts after listening to a debate of the same name as this post at [...]

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Learning to Love Your Body

October 19, 2011

Today is Love Your Body Day, a special day for women who struggle with body image and all the things that come out of that — eating struggles, weight problems, lack of self-fulfillment are just a few things that come to mind.  That means it’s a day for most of us because fully 80% of [...]

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Fat Talk Free Week

October 16, 2011

Wake Up to Fat Talk Fat Talk is a conversational trap of habituated and mindless speaking. We not only use  it on others, but it is also how we talk to ourselves.  Frequently it’s used as a starter or how we greet old friends… “Wow, it looks like you have lost weight” or “Gosh, I [...]

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It Happened This Week: Superstars, the Cockroach Effect, & We’re Back!

September 23, 2011

We’re back on WordPress and life is good.  Well, sorta.  We’ve got a lot of cleaning up to do of “stuff” that occurred during the transfer, but we’re definitely headed in the right direction. Speaking of headed in the right direction, here are some great things we’ve seen come across the web this week that [...]

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A Day to Remember

May 31, 2010

Happy Memorial Day to our US friends. We hope you can appreciate all this day has to offer.

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A Must-Read for Emotional Eaters

May 3, 2010

Last week I decided to unplug.  Not permanently or even all the time — just evenings.  I’m sure you can relate to why I made that decision.  Staying connected via email, blogs, surfing the internet, whatever was leaving little time for me.  And it wasn’t feeling good. One of the first things I did upon [...]

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