Last year I wrote a book about a group of kids who accidentally start a second American Revolution. In January, I was signed by a literary agent. And last week she accepted an offer on my behalf from...
Trigger warning: Brief, clinical discussion of how hypothyroid treatment may lead to weight loss. Also brief mention of triggering ED thoughts. I’ve had hypothyroidism for about ten years now, ...
Trigger Warning: If you get car sick easily, you may not want to read this blog… it’s gonna be a bumpy ride! It’s complicated. No, I am not talking about my Facebook relationship status. ...
Let me just put it out there: I have disliked Tosh.0 from the start. I find him nothing but mean-spirited, getting cheap laughs from teasing just about everyone he can. Many people think that since h...
Trigger warning: Discussion of a child whose mother tried to make him lose weight and the people who most recently made him lose weight. Last November, the never-ending panic over childhood obesity w...
About three weeks ago, I bought a new-to-me bicycle at a local resale shop. It’s a Schwinn 21 Speed Mountain bike. It’s a higher-end model, one with the shocks on both the front and rear ...
It occurred to me that perhaps we need an introduction page for our little community for those who fall into our clutches without expectations, including our various policies that are scattered throu...
In the minds of fat-hating trolls, fat people are always looking for excuses to be fat and Fat Acceptance enables them to do just this. Fat Acceptance itself is the ultimate excuse for the massive hu...
Our final blogger for Autism Week certainly needs no introduction — the indomitable Shaunta of Live Once, Juicy. When I was 22 years old, I went into the hospital one December day and was sent home t...
Today’s post is from regular reader and commenter Karen, whose comments on the media’s coverage of the obesity/autism research inspired this week. I am known by many labels: daughter, sis...
The following post is by CC, a regular reader and commenter who also has Asperger’s syndrome. Imagine, if you will, that there’s a group called, say, Fatties Speak. On the surface, they seem to...
Today’s Autism Week post comes from Kala, a friend and regular reader and commenter on Fierce Fatties, who’s grasp on statistical analysis I frequently rely on to ensure that I’m ac...
If you’ve spent any time observing the media, you already know that obesity will destroy the world. In fact, based on a highly-technical series of studies, scientists have estimated that our co...
Trigger warning: Brief discussion of eating disorder symptoms. I have a friend, Tona, whose favorite piece of advice is don’t worry, there’s always cupcakes. In honor of that idea, I deci...
Trigger warning: Discussion of the two types of diets. Fat people are conditioned for deprivation. If we eat, we’re lazy and stupid and don’t care about ourselves or the fact that we̵...
Trigger warning: This post includes a story of a doctor being a diet-promoting jackass. The universe has a funny way of dealing with me. I’ve been so aware of International No Diet Day lately, ...
Trigger warning: Discussion of dieters and obnoxious dieter behavior. Despite coming of age during an epidemic of obesity, and having deeply sizeist, healthist family members, I have never been on a ...
Trigger warning: Discussion of diets. Last week at work, some of my co-workers and I were at lunch. On the table was a container of chocolate chip cookies somebody brought in for a staff meeting. Coo...
Trigger warning: Diet and eating disorder talk How many remember the old Garfield cartoon-turned-poster that read, “Diet is just ‘die’ with a ‘T’ at the end”? I ca...
Trigger warning: Discussion of the definition of dieting, plus dieting research. Although Word-lovin’ Wednesdays are reserved for book reviews, what I’m about to share is semantic in natu...
Trigger warning: Brief discussion of people gushing over illness-induced weight loss. I bet you thought I couldn’t throw myself out of bed and claw my way over to the glowing laptop screen acro...
Trigger warning: Discussion of weight loss surgery and dieting. That’s a very good question. Until I found Fat Acceptance six years ago, I had never heard of International No Diet Day — and I&#...
Trigger warning: Frank discussion of dieting and eating disorders. For me, not dieting equals freedom. Not the freedom to eat until I burst, engulfing everything in sight, but the freedom to eat at a...
Trigger Warning: Discussion of weight loss, exercise and dieting. My life changed a lot when I decided to give up dieting. My body breathed a huge sigh of relief. It said thank you. It was so gratefu...
Trigger warning: This is all about weight loss, including screen caps from Weight Watchers blog posts. Yesterday, in honor of International No Diet Day, The Oprah Magazine shared on Facebook “W...
Why No Diet Day? Well, first and foremost is the fact that diets fail to achieve long-term weight loss 95% of the time (and don’t even start with “but it’s NOT a diet! It’s a lifestyle change!” It’s ...
Next week, Fierce, Freethinking Fatties will commemorate International No Diet Day by hosting No Diet Week with an explosion of content. We’re planning double posts each day to encourage everyo...
Physical activity is an important type of activity, no doubt. That said, it’s only one type of activity. People avoid physical activity for all sorts of reasons, including lack of opportunities...
Reddit is a giant social news site ranking internet stories and links, and has hundreds, if not thousands, of subreddits. Each subreddit is a specialized group, or forum, for people to post links, as...
Trigger warning: Discussions of weight loss programs and a history of dieting and weight loss. I’m a stay-at-home mom. As such, in between my usual daily housecleaning, cooking, and child care,...
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