Question for more experienced Jezzies: If you haven't shaved your legs, does spray tan still look okay, or does it highlight the hairs?

I'm on that mission, ready for lift-off! Which color is it?

Evangelizing is right! I'm horrible about it. I talk it up any chance I get. I love my Paragard and will never go back to hormonal stuff, either. :)

When you have a good OBGYN (or any OBGYN), insist on having a local anesthetic during insertion and explain that the pain the first time was really bad for you. It absolutely can be done, though it's not common in the US. If you're in a desperate situation and can't wait to find a doc that will give you a local,…

I have a ParaGard, and my cervix got way more sensitive after putting it in, but over time, that has faded. It wasn't a bad sensitivity, but certain positions would hit my cervix funny and be unpleasantly overstimulating as a result.

I wish I had a good answer for you, but I don't. I've spent a fair amount of time on the IUD Divas' LJ group (back when LJ was a thing), and it varies wildly from woman to woman. For me, I was functional but generally miserable for about 24 hours after. Think of it like the worst cramps you've had, for a day or so.…

If you're a duvet person, check out Target's house brand of duvets and comforters. They have little ties in each corner of the duvet (on the inside) and loops on each corner of the comforter. It makes those doofy little duvet clips unnecessary and keeps the comforter from getting bunched up inside the duvet. And,…

I did stop watching the show. I stayed through the Barney fat suit, even though that was just a bunch of cheap fat jokes, because I said "well, that's not his natural state, and they're making the point that he degraded vs. his usual self"...but then when that ep happened, I said screw it...I don't need this.

I never said that your health didn't change. I, in fact, agreed that your health would change. I just took issue with you conflating it with weight loss and suggesting your results would be the same for others.

"how does diet and exercise NOT cause weight loss?" Great question! Science doesn't have a firm answer yet, but it is absolutely true that it doesn't. Calories-in, calories-out has been disproven pretty firmly, but they're still working through why. Some studies suggest that the body fights this kind of change…

The issue is connecting the "healthy eating and exercise" to weight loss. For you, changing those habits may have resulted in weight loss. That loss may be short or long term (time will tell). For others, having those same habits will not result in weight loss, but they will result in a change in health. That's…

The fact that folks like you are confused by this is exactly why Michelle Obama's statements about fighting obesity are a problem...she's perpetuating a myth that a symptom (obesity) is a disease. Being fat may be a result of unhealthy behaviors, or it may be a side effect from a drug, or a genetic issue...or it may…

I think you (miss matched) are mostly correct. However, the problem with reducing it to the obesity soundbite is that it makes it seem like it's okay to focus on weight instead of health, and worse yet, that it's okay to treat fat people like second class citizens (at best) or scum (at worst). The additional…

One bit of delicious meta irony was seeing John Slattery, Mr. Sterling himself, whoring himself out for Lincoln (one of those slimy car guys!) in the ads during the breaks of this ep of Mad Men.

I'm pretty sure Jez, or at least the Jez community, would have the same issues if Tosh.0 grabbed a personal photo of a person who is anorexic or otherwise suffering from a disorder and posted it up for nasty comments. The issue is attacking a person rather than attacking a disorder or a disease.

I'm not sure it is, as noted in my first paragraph. I think it's an error on that site.

Ha! All I could think when he said that was, "I wonder if that's what they called fanfic, back in the day."

I watched the episode in question. It sure sounded like he said gut to me, and the link you gave is the only source I've seen (I read TWoP, TV Tattle, and listen to lots of reality show podcasts, including quite a few interviews with Arsenio after the fact) saying otherwise. Not saying it's not true, but it wasn't…

Amazon has all of them. Are you trying to find somewhere free or just somewhere?

There needs to be a creepy banana meme, right now. "Know what two things are good with chocolate sauce? Me. And You."