At soon 55 now, I managed to make truce with the world (somewhat) at 50, when I decided to enter the Blessed Kingdom of IDGAF. Nice place if you can get to it (Before you move in the town of Where yer hurtin’... sadly the only town around).

Thank you so much for this article. I also just went through a pregnancy with the words “complication: morbid obesity” written across the top of every appointment summary. It was awful, infuriating and did a lot of emotional damage that I continue to struggle with postpartum, including the notion that my pregnancy was…

I feel this deeply. My grandmother was very critical of her own body and it would occasionally spill onto me. The last time I visited her before she died, she hugged me and pinched my belly fat and said I needed to lose weight. My stepfather spared no opportunity to make comments about my weight while at the same time…

Oh hey, someone else who ended up at WW before puberty. We need (very sad) t-shirts.

I hear you. I’m turning 50 this year and my weight has been an issue since I was a child. Short story - I was adopted at birth and I had no idea who my birth parents were. This year, I found my birth mom who gave me my birth father’s name. I googled him and found several pictures of him all at different weights, but…

This article resonates so much. My mom put me on Weight Watchers when I was nine, after many years of restricting what I could eat. The thing is, when I look back at childhood pictures, I was not fat. I wasn’t sinewy or lithe, but I was not fat. I was athletic. I played elite soccer from a very young age. I don’t…

Any legislation passed by a majority in congress, no matter how great, can be amended or repealed by a simple majority in both houses.

I used to work in Congress and also used to live on the Hill:

and if you’re like a friend of mine, if there are any raw onions, he won’t bother sending the food back. The onions will get picked out and given to the “I’ll eat anything if it’s free” scavengers at the table.

I want good service and I definitely want what I paid for. But for me it’s a meal and a bit of money, so it would take a special kind of personality to think that’s potentially worth someone’s livelihood as punishment for not doing what I want.

If I asked repeatedly to get something that I felt I must have and then I wanted to leave and a refund was denied despite my polite requests?

Please do tell me what you’re supposed to do other than accept an order you do not want?

Also i’m lactose intolerant, i thought this headline was going in a VERY different direction.

You’d send something back because it had pico on it? And if you couldn’t get your way, you’d start demanding a refund?

Karen, I don’t think you really understand what it is to be a Karen, even though you vocally possess all of the qualities of a Karen.

Hardline food habits (not allergy-related)? In a restaurant?

I’m totally doxxing myself with this story but whatever. My worst roommate inspired an episode of Law and Order SVU. She was assigned to me my freshman year of college based on some questionnaire we had to fill out during the summer. To this day I am disturbed that some computer algorithm though we would be a good…

That’s not about the Jewish vote- it’s to lure in the Fundamentalist Christian crowd. (The Jewish vote is a baked-in 80- 90% lock for Democrats)

Seriously. It’s so cute when they pretend it’s a bug rather than a feature.

“Bigotry and hateful rhetoric—in any form—have no place in the Republican Party”