I like to think I’m considered to be pretty flexible among my friends. I can usually be convinced to meet up anywhere, to do almost anything – to the point where I think it annoys people sometimes that I don’t…
Last week marked exactly a year that I’ve been back in the States, and although I adore San Francisco and being home has been good for me in a lot of ways, one word keeps running through my mind: BASTA. …
I’ve long maintained that weight and health, while obviously linked, aren’t as closely tied as the medical community would have us believe. In my experience, they simply can’t be, since I’ve always weighed more than average (even as a slim/normal-sized…
Hello hello! I know I’ve been neglecting this blog and I am, as always, extremely sorry about that. I’m currently waist-deep in the second round of edits for my book, as well as trying to keep up my poor, neglected…
One of my favorite food bloggers, Adam at The Amateur Gourmet, has a great post today on the hypocrisy of society’s paternalistic viewpoint on obesity and healthy eating. He points out exactly what I so often say (less articulately than…
The New York Times has breaking news today: it turns out, every body is different! Some people lose or gain weight much more easily than others, and it has little to do with their own personal failings! Oh my god,…
Hello friends (/people who found this blog by googling ‘foreskin’), First of all, I apologize unreservedly for my recent absence from the internets, and the resulting dullness of this here blog. I’ve spent the entire summer staring into my computer…
Supporting my favorite soapbox claim that fat people can (usually) do all the same things thin people can do (sometimes better) is Michael K at my favorite celebrity blog, Dlisted, with this story about a 400 pound man who finished…
