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College-aged me... approximately 250lbs.
Black Women, Our Bodies & Perceptions of Beauty: Straight Hair

What if you swapped your hair with your body in your list of priorities? This wouldn’t even be an issue then, would it?

The crowded quarters...
Q&A Wednesday: Is “Cornfed” Really A Compliment?

Is being called “cornfed” really a compliment?

Black Women, Our Bodies & Perceptions of Beauty: The Booty

No more prevalent, in the lonnnng list of reasons why women like me don’t work out, is the excuse of the booty.

Anything to avoid the scale?
Black Women, Our Bodies & Perceptions of Beauty: “White Girl Stuff”

For some reason, eating healthy is often brushed off and regarded as a “white people thing…”

Exercises

Standing Oblique Twists

Keywords
Abs, Back, Booty

Seated Calf Raise

Keywords
Legs

Steam Engines

Keywords
Abs, Cardio

Good Mornings

Keywords
Back, Booty

Health and Wellness

Recent Comments

Taken from Black Women, Our Bodies & Perceptions of Beauty: Straight Hair:

Your pictures are inspiring, lol. Peace, Love and Chocolate Tiffany

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Hey . . .love the site! I've been on my journey for almost two months now and have lost 14 lbs!!! Ya

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You don't have to be thin or skinny to be attractive, beautiful, pretty, or gorgeous. Thin does not

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I love it! My "come to fitness moment" happend coincidentally after I went natural. I'd been learnin

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Recipes

Apple Butter Flax Seed Cookie

One of my favorite cookie recipes, and a great way to incorporate flax seed in my diet!

Bruschetta

I live for Italian food. I don’t even care. Herbs, sauces, wines…. I just think I could go for all of it.

At the same time. Yes.

Chocolate Granola

All this talk about breakfast has me just a little bit hungry.

Once I …

About Erika

creator of Black Girl's Guide To Weight Loss

I've never been good at these kinds of intros, so you'll have to pardon me for jumping all over the place.

I'm a young woman who has fought problems with weight loss for years. After picking up weight at a rate of 20 lbs a year, I finally decided to slow down, take some time to assess what I was doing to myself and why it was happening so fast. What was I doing so wrong?

After taking a lot of time to myself, I worked out, took my emotional eating into consideration, and sure enough my weight started to fall off. I learned things about myself and my interaction with food that I never heard any other woman address... and I can't help but wonder.. why?

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