Mornings are awesome for me. I never think of food in the morning. There’s nothing I could even want if you waved it under my nose. For my entire life, I’ve never been hungry when I first get up. I have to be up for a couple of hours. But the really amazing thing to …
Category: weight-related shame
What the Fat Haters Say About You. No, Not That.
- By Dagny Kight in weight-related shame
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April 17, 2013
When I had my original weight loss blog back around 2004 to about 2006, I got these taunting anonymous emails from someone who claimed he knew me. He made a remark that lead me to think he was someone I’d known from Florida. I didn’t play along so he kept writing me and eventually admitted …
Considering Why Lower Income & Food Insecurity Equals Higher Weight
- By Dagny Kight in weight prejudice and bias, weight-related shame
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April 15, 2013
Among the findings from his landmark analysis of the Midtown Manhattan Study on mental health in 1964, Dr. Albert “Mickey” Stunkard was the first to identify that lower income appears to correlate to a higher rate of obesity. Essentially, poor people are fatter which seems to present a paradox that food insecurity leads to weight …
Jillian Michaels Shows Her True Hateful Colors
- By Dagny Kight in weight prejudice and bias, weight-related shame
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March 24, 2013
I just saw an interview with Jillian Michaels on CBS Sunday Morning. She talked about how she’s now a “brand.” She talked about being so stressed out she wants to eat ice cream for dinner and drink wine straight from the bottle. She talked about being so busy she hasn’t been to the gym for …
The Vicious Weight Bias That Has to End
- By Dagny Kight in weight bias in the media, weight prejudice and bias, weight-related shame
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March 4, 2013
When I was a kid and I helped with the laundry, I thought my mother’s clothes seemed like doll clothes. My mother has always been a tiny little slip of a lady. Now that she’s in her seventies, I have tried to come up with strategies for boosting the nutritional content of the food she’s …
Political and Moral Aspects of Weight Advocacy & Fat Acceptance
- By Dagny Kight in weight prejudice and bias, weight-related shame
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February 19, 2013
I navigate the concept of “fat acceptance” with reticence. It’s sure to incite emotional responses, sometimes even hostility. Weight has become intensely “politicized” and “emotionalized” in our society. How should we consider political and moral aspects of weight advocacy? Are there lines to be drawn? There are two primary issues to address, first of all …
Why Do You Fail at Losing Weight?
- By Dagny Kight in lifestyle change, weight bias in the media, weight loss marketing, weight-related shame
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February 17, 2013
I was fat all my life. It wasn’t until my mid-forties that I finally found what I needed to do to take my weight under control and find a way out of what had caused and maintained an undercurrent of anxiety and even torment in my life. I’ve had to fight off feelings of regret …
The Most Important Thing You’ll Ever Read About Obesity
- By Dagny Kight in weight bias in the media, weight loss marketing, weight loss myths, weight-related shame
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February 16, 2013
If you deal with weight at all, you need to be following the writing of Dr. Yoni Freedhoff, founder of the Bariatric Medical Institute in Ottawa. Click to read his blog, Weighty Matters. Dr. Freedhoff writes quite a bit and I just read an article that appeared in in the Huffington Post. Dr. Freedhoff addresses …
America’s Culture Wars: What Fat Shaming Shares with Poverty Shaming
- By Dagny Kight in weight bias in the media, weight prejudice and bias, weight-related shame
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February 7, 2013
I’ve just read a Facebook thread that has me feeling pretty down and rather sad. The question was posed, “Should welfare applicants be drug tested?” Overwhelmingly, the thread was filled with indignantly affirmative posts. One woman even asserted that welfare drug testing wasn’t about money or politics at all—it was about “safety,” protecting the public …
Is a Weight Problem All in your Head?
- By Dagny Kight in lifestyle change, weight bias in the media, weight prejudice and bias, weight-related shame
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January 26, 2013
Who knows you best? Your Mom? Your significant other? Your best friend since third grade? How about YOU? Aren’t you the expert on YOU? Of course! It seemed like this week I happened to come across more presumptuous “experts” than usual. There’s the big story of the week, pompous ass Daniel Callahan, founder of a …
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