More of Me to Love

About the Blogs

Welcome to the More of Me to Love blogs! Follow our experts as they discuss their tips and talk about nutrition, fitness and mental wellness. Admire voluptuous fat art in the Rubenesque Gallery. Read interviews with authors who write about big and beautiful heroines. Learn about the latest info and research on Health at Every Size, weight, loving your body and fat activism. Our blogs are also a great place to keep up with the sizable amount of news related to More of Me to Love and the Fat Community. And don’t forget to leave your own thoughts in the comments sections - we love hearing what you have to say!

The Diet Failed You
by Anne Cuthbert, M.A., LPC | May 22, 2012

Here you are again. Your promise to yourself and everyone in your life to lose weight has run its course. You did your best to diet. Perhaps you lost some weight, but you couldn’t keep it up. Eventually, you ate those forbidden foods, and couldn’t stop. Once again, you ate everything you shouldn’t have and you are starting to gain back the weight. You failed - again. Now what?

Posted in: Life in the Fat Lane

The Pleasures of Variety
by Brenda RD | May 22, 2012

Lately, I’ve been experimenting with new foods and flavors to go with my Good Measures meals. Having the variety helps me not fall in a food rut.

Posted in: Please Pass the Practicality

I fit rest and rejuvenation into my life, daily.
by Michal Spiegelman | May 22, 2012

When you rely on something outside yourself – people, places, things – to help you feel good, that good feeling can be taken away as easily as it is given.

Posted in: Balanced Moments

Fits and Starts
by Dr Deah | May 21, 2012

We need to spend some time focusing on what is working, not on what isn’t and find new ways to look at health and wellness goals, standards, and measurements. Let’s find ways to help people understand the concept of body diversity and that some of us can be fit as a fiddle and can’t fit into a size 6 dress.

Posted in: Tasty Morsels

Let Your Fear Motivate You
by Sue Bary, Certified Health Coach | May 21, 2012

Is the fear of embarrassment or failure keeping you from trying or doing new things? What if there was a way to use that fear for good?

Posted in: Fitness For All

Cooking as a Spectator Sport
by Dana Sturtevant, MS, RD & Hilary Kinavey, MS, LPC | May 21, 2012

Did you know that in the time it takes to watch one half-hour long program on the Food Network you could prepare and cook a whole meal for dinner?

Posted in: Feed Your Life

The “War On Obesity” and The Weight Of The Nation
by Golda Poretsky, H.H.C. | May 21, 2012

Have you seen HBO’s documentary Weight of the Nation? I have chosen not to watch. Here’s why.

Posted in: Soul Food: Nourishing the Inner You

Happy Mother’s Day?
by Mary Stein | May 17, 2012

Remember the eight year old boy in Ohio taken from his mother last year because of his size? Sadly, not many do.

Posted in: The Mid Section

But What Do You Want?
by Tracy E. Ziebell, MA, MDiv, LMHCA | May 17, 2012

What a shockingly unique question. In our culture of shoulds and needs and have tos, to consider what it is that we want can seem like a novelty. Yet so important. Meet the new More of Me to Love blogger, Tracy Ziebell, through her first post about the nature of our desires and listening to what our younger selves would have wanted.

Posted in: Life in the Fat Lane