Are you really fat shaming a baby?

i'm fostering a cat that loves to sit on sheets of paper!! it is the strangest thing.

I went full on slut-whore strapless. But I also got married in Charleston, SC, in May...nobody wants to see a bride w/ pit stains.

Ugh yeah. Tons. It's also incredible how well we can hide it. I suppose it has something to do with women being conditioned to just say "yes everything is great!!!!!!" no matter what.

I sometimes wonder how many women actually have eating disorders and if I do, but it's just soooooo normalized that we don't even realize it? I'm not talking about throwing up or starving yourself, the very clear and dangerous sorts, but just the sort that is constantly denying, worrying, judging...but we've been…

My cat is named Sir David Cattenborough. Haters gonna hate.

I don't think it'll give her any sort of complex if you just put your foot down and make her brush her hair. If she demands an explanation, lump it in with things like brushing your teeth and taking a shower - you have to keep your body healthy, and that means keeping all parts of your body healthy!

It really was. I mean, some people didn't know what I was going through, but I lost a lot of weight very fast so I think most people should have been able to tell it was probably a medical issue and therefore not something to celebrate. Many of the people who DID know, though, would come at it like "Well I'm sorry…

The box logic described in this article does little to explain:

Help. My daughter is 6 and I really want to NEVER SAY ANYTHING about her appearance, except positive things. The sweet girl made up a song the other day that was just repeated: "It doesn't matter what you look like, it matters what you act like!" and variations thereof. So it's working, for now. But she doesn't…

Also, boxes make purrfect toys.

This struck a chord with me and I was in tears by the end of it. My best friend and I constantly talk about how much we wish we could let go of concerns over our appearance. It feels like a constant battle, undoing basically 3 decades of body-negative messages on top of the current onslaught we get. It's always two…

I can actually help with the Filipino version of this, if you're interested. Maybe the ladies of Jezebel would like to know about the "kikay kits" we have filled with face wash and other things that make us look fresh-faced despite unrelenting humidity and the national obsession with skin-lightening treatments!

*hugs* My cocktail of issues is slightly different but pretty similar, and I know that feeling very much. I hope you feel better getting it out in the open somewhere. And you can always keep replying to me here if you want to talk more.

Have you tried tudiabetes.org? I connected with some diabetics in my area and talked to many online. It really helped.

I went for sparkly sandals with no heels. (Well, about 1/2" wedge.) Comfy and fun and wonderful, and about $50.

Maybe they're classified differently because they have to be approached differently wrt treatment?

I can tell you from experience that this is definitely a thing. I was a very unhealthy overweight adolescent. I went vegetarian in high school becuase I wanted to be healthier and I always felt wierd about eating animals. I started to loose weight and felt better. After a few years I wanted to try going vegan it felt…

I wonder how many folks struggling with this already have what we do agree is an eating disorder.