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Working my Way to Odinson
Big old Content Warning at the top for body talk around fitness and being overweight. If that sort of thing isn’t for you, I hope you’ll scroll and find some of my other articles to enjoy. If you do read on, it is also important to note that I am writing about me, and me…
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Dissatisfaction and Shame
There is a lot of argument floating around the ‘net about body image and body shaming and the overweight. As an obese person it is hard not to get drawn into the conflict as it rages across my screen. The pro-obese crowd want me to lose my shame and fight the brain-washing of the fitness-industrial…
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No More Junk Food
I don’t make New Year’s resolutions. I agree with the common wisdom, which states that all such promises made under seasonal duress are doomed to fail before they are even uttered. I think that promises to myself need to be made freely, for good reason and without real or perceived outside pressure. I mention all…
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SAD and the Renaissance Dork
I’ll keep this brief, since I want to get back to posting fun things around here and I’m pretty sure you’d all like to read fun things, too. But I figured my tens of readers deserved an explanation for my unplanned and unexpected hiatus. In a nutshell, I suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder, or SAD. …
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Rock on, Princess Leia!
Carrie Fisher has been in the news recently because of her weight-loss success story, dropping 50lbs since last December. I remember when I first saw her appearing as the spokesperson for Jenny Craig, and I thought, “Good for her! I hope that works.” Well, apparently it did, because she is now just one size larger…
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Back on the Fitness Train!
It wasn’t so long ago that I wrote a pretty compelling (if I do say so myself) post regarding my ongoing fitness. And I’d love to report that everything fell into place and here I am, coming up on three months later, and I am down x lbs…but I can’t. Because I’m not. I’m actually…
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