Lara Frater's Blog, page 26

HAES, the win-win way of life

Harriet Brown recently wrote a fabulous blog post about the "Obesity Paradox" which is a term coined to explain why fat people (obviously already on death's door) have better survival rates of chronic diseases. She also mentions a study about mortality going up with weight loss after age 50. Showing that perhaps we are a bit hasty in labeling fat=unhealthy.

This why we need to adopt HAES for healthy living. HAES encourages people of all sizes to eat well and move. Removing a weight-based...

Thinnfer's mall

I just had a very active weekend and I can barely think enough to put today a comprehensive post, so I decided to repost a Igigi column

The New York Times talks to Gwen DeVoe about the state of Plus Size fashion and how slow retaliers realize that fat people have money and will buy clothes.  A few years ago, I went with a thin friend and tried to see the mall from her perspective:

I recently went to the mall with a thin friend (Who I love more than anything).  I find the mall a great...

The failure of the Binge/diet cycle.

I recently finished Angry Fat Girlz by Frances Kuffel. The book is about five women and how over a year they attempt to lose weight, gain weight and tried to stop emotional eating (with gaining weight as their only success). I spoke to the author while she wrote the book and she reminded me of myself 10 years ago. At the time, I got that it was okay to be fat (although not too fat)  but I was still dieting and binging, still blaming myself if I "cheated". Food was no longer fuel for my body...

Call for Study.

Call for Participants

Hi, my name is Michaela A. Null, and I am a doctoral student in Sociology at
Purdue University. I am doing a study about the embodiment of size-accepting fat
women, with attention to the ways in which gender, race, sexual orientation, and
body size intersect. 

I am currently looking for individuals who are interested in volunteering to
participate in my study. If you are interested in volunteering to participate in
an interview, I ask that take an electronic informational...

Won't someone please think of the children?

This week blogger Harriet Brown writes a terrific piece in the Huffington Post about how trying to make fat kids thin will only result in disordered eating. She talks about her own daughter's descent into anorexia started with a "Wellness class."  She and I are on the same page regarding Mrs. Obama's "Let's Move": No one is against more physical activity and better foods but the problem comes when its sole goal is to make fat children thin which is what the Let's Move campaign is all about.

Finland is free of WW, Fat kids eat less, and oily shit strikes again

Happy Memorial Day. For dieters, Memorial day had a different meaning, it was the last day you could eat freely before you started your diet, which often meant bingeing.  I no longer have those kinds of memorial days, I just eat and tried to make to include vegetables.

Thanks for Charlotte Coopers' Obesity Time Bomb for pointing this out.  Apparently Finland is now free of Weight Watchers.  Apparently the Finnish were not interested in "lifestyle" change enough for Weight Watchers to find...

Attack of the 50 foot Wedding

The advice I would give to anyone, fat or thin; when it's time to tie the knot, elope.  That's the advice I would have give to my past self and to the heroine of the very funny novel: "Bride of the Living Dead" by Lynne Murray who brought us the flabulous Josephine Fuller mysteries. The novel will be out in June and if you don't see it in your local bookstore, ask that they carry it. 

In this novel Murray's main character Daria, an independent sarcastic film critic, starts off her story with...

More pics

Event overflow. Yay fatties!

Fat politics and sexuality in the face of hate

Physics vs. Biology

Its all too common to hear the old Calories in, Calories out ploy, or "you cannot change the law of theromdymanics."  After all Biology obeys the law of physics, doesn't it?  You consume 1600 cals a day, and your body uses 2000 a day and you burn about 400 a day moving, so everyday you burn an 800 extra calories. In theory you burn 3500 a week which means a weight loss of about 52lbs a year. This is how the law of thermodynamics works, right? So if the theory holds, then any given human...