Fat Girls Float is the upcoming documentary by a 300 pound filmmaker, Kira Nerusskaya, that takes the audience on a journey through international fat subculture, giving fat women from four counties an opportunity to have their say. Despite many glares, glances, and gloating from media, family members, medical communities and the public-at-large these fat women tell their tales of sorrow and success, wow and woe. They discuss size discrimination, political activism, fat and size acceptance, and social networking communities. These fat women show how they need to rise above what the world thinks of them and point out their ability to overcome society’s condemnation through compassionate perseverance. In essence, fat girls float because they do not let their weight ‘weigh’ them down.
Want to listen to Linda Bacon and Marilyn Wann hand it to a (seemingly) biased BBC interviewer and a speaker for the American Institute for Cancer Research? Then this is the discussion for you. This radio segment from the BBC is frustrating at first and then very rousing as Wann and Bacon refuse to take the nonsense of the unfounded and poorly constructed conclusions of the research by the American Institute for Cancer Research.
This amazing resource should be passed along to every person in the medical profession to help them learn how to adjust their practices to professionally and appropriately accommodate larger patients. This open letter was graciously provided by Alice Ansfield of the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research as suggestions for Health Care Professionals.
The Queen of Rubenesque Romances, Pat Ballard, has just released her 9th book, Something to Think About: Reflections on Life, Family, Body Image & Other Weighty Matters. This wonderful collection of reflections will have you thinking about yourself, your life and so much more. The best part is that Pat Ballard’s 9th book is a FREE ebook, and you can download it right here!
You know how we love our Joy Nash here at More of Me to Love. She’s fun, funny, beautiful, engaging and always speaks the truth. Nash’s delivery is timely and on point, and we’re so grateful for the great Fat Rant videos she makes. This one is about the notion of compulsive eating. Enjoy!
This is the second part in a two-part series that details the ways in which the emphasis on weight loss is not as good for the general public as an emphasis on healthy behaviors.
After a brief summary and some key references detailing the medically understood fact that sustainable weight loss is untenable and that salutary health effects can result from healthful behaviors independent of weight loss, the author proceeds to outline the tenets of a size acceptance approach to health.
This essay is based on a keynote speech delivered at the conference of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance on August 1, 2009. Drawing on her personal experience and observations of internalized oppression and thin privilege, Linda Bacon identifies stumbling blocks to fat acceptance and strategies for personal empowerment and effecting change in others.
In this review, we address the prevailing view of obesity as a major threat to public health and find that this paradigm is based on incomplete consideration of the evidence. After reviewing diabetes, hypertension and hypercholesterolemia (Part 1), and mortality (Part 2), we advocate a wellness approach focused on healthy lifestyle and treating disease in the obese, rather than treating obesity as a disease.
This is a downloadable PDF article from the April 2007 edition of American Psychologist. It is summarized as such: The prevalence of obesity and its associated health problems have increased sharply in the past 2 decades. New revisions to Medicare policy will allow funding for obesity treatments of proven efficacy. The authors review studies of the long-term outcomes of calorie-restricting diets to assess whether dieting is an effective treatment for obesity. These studies show that one third to two thirds of dieters regain more weight than they lost on their diets, and these studies likely underestimate the extent to which dieting is counterproductive because of several methodological problems, all of which bias the studies toward showing successful weight loss maintenance. In addition, the studies do not provide consistent evidence that dieting results in significant health improvements, regardless of weight change. In sum, there is little support for the notion that diets lead to lasting weight loss or health benefits.
This is a great Fat Rant by Joy Nash that Nicole told us about in the forums. It’s a series of great comebacks and a motivational rant.
Want to learn a little bit about the Fat Acceptance Movement? Well this clip from ABC’s Good Morning America is one of the most startlingly reasonable portrayals of it that I’ve ever seen in the media. At the very least, it’s worth a watch.
April was Emotional Overeating Awareness Month. Enjoy 30 tips, one for every day in the month of April, on emotional overeating. This month of awareness was established by Dr. Denise Lamothe to call attention to the serious problem that many people face when it comes to food: emotional eating. Whether you are an emotional eater or not, these tips can be very useful in becoming more aware of the way you eat and in becoming a more intuitive eater. Thanks to Dr. Denise Lamothe for letting us share them with the More of Me to Love community!
That’s right, our wonderful Mental Wellness expert, who helps you feel better in your own body with her fun tips and fascinating articles every week, was on Plus Model Radio with Chenese Lewis. Listen to all of the wonderful advice she has to offer and even hear her mention More of Me to Love!
These disturbing facts and figures will shock you into recognizing the incredible problem we have in this country when it comes to dieting and weight loss. Read them and share them with friends and family. Awareness will breed discontent with their truth and hopefully lead to a better future for all of us and our children.
Looking for a way to get a pick-me-up? Read these 14 affirmations and recite them often. Believe them. They’re not meant to brainwash you into some false reality but to wake you from the false reality that has led many to believe that only thin people are beautiful or worthy. These will help you realize that you are beautiful and worthy just the way you are.
The Largesse Network has provided these 14 wonderful ways to better health - and none of them involves dieting! Learn some great ways to start being healthier right now.
This wonderful list adeptly summarizes the many reasons that dieting is more harmful than helpful. Thanks to the Council on Size & Weight Discrimination for this list!
Author Pat Ballard, the Queen of Rubenesque Romances, and her publisher, Pearlsong Press’s Peggy Elam, Ph.D., respond to the “war on obesity” with a call for self acceptance and healthy living instead of a focus on weight loss.
If you’ve been hearing about United Airlines’ new policy related to larger passengers buying an extra seat, but can’t quite seem to find it, we’ve posted it for you right here. When you’re done reading it, feel free to discuss it in our forums.
Dr. Peggy Elam, renowned psychologist, Health at Every Size advocate, radio-show host, and publisher, brings us her 12 steps to living life with a Health at Every Size approach.
Are you having trouble getting your doctor or other health care professionals to stop focusing on your weight and to understand the Health at Every Size approach. Dr. Linda Bacon has drafted this letter for you to give to you doctor. Let us know how it goes in our Doctor and Health Professionals Forum.
This letter is a sample letter by Dr. Linda Bacon that can be freely used by anyone wishing to share Health at Every Size with her or his loved ones. If you are tired of your friends and family badgering you about your weight, but don’t know how to tell them that you can be healthy at your current size, try this letter.
This wonderful pledge is brought to you by Dr. Linda Bacon, author of the sensational Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth about Your Weight.
NAAFA is the oldest Fat Activist group there is, and has been fighting for the equal treatment of people of size since 1969.
This article is an excellent introduction to the basics of NAAFA: the kind of work it does, the reason it does this work, and the positive value this work has.
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