Commentary on the viral Huffington Post article about obesity and fat shaming in health care, and why fat-shaming doesn’t work.

Photo credit: Flicks / agecombahia I know that Beyonce’s quotes about her FUPA (fatty upper pubic area—yes I’m purposely calling it ‘pubic’ and not what you likely call it—also sometimes

It is so hot today that I cannot brain. On several occasions in the past two days, I have caught myself finishing sentences incorrectly or finishing them early, forgetting whole

Months ago, a reader asked me which diet was “the best,” and my answer was, quite honestly, any diet that relies predominately on unprocessed food and minimally refined grains. That’s

I’m not going to pretend that I’ve been at my most insightful the past year or so. In fact, it has been incredibly difficult for me. After the birth of

I’ve written about ‘deprivation’ before, because it felt like something I had to acknowledge as a weight loss blogger. People struggle with ‘giving up’ things they ‘love’ because they “don’t

This is a drum I’ve been trying to beat for a very long time. Weight. Loss. Pills. Aren’t. Safe. Nope. Sorry. There’s no oversight. There’s no regulation. There’s no clinical

This was originally a Q&A Wednesday question, but I’ve had no less than six people come to me with this exact same problem all in the same ten day period