She can be proud all she wants, she worked hard. But in terms of society en masse, glorifying weight loss to the point of putting it on the news (even the Today show) is not healthy. It just fuels this horrible obsession our culture has with weight and thinness; with eating disorder levels as high as they are, maybe…

Can we not glorify weight loss, please? Can we find it within ourselves to accept ourselves as we are, in all our strange forms?

Pretty is a skill like any other skill. You want to be smarter? Study. You want to be a better writer, musician, artist, etc? Practice. No one is forcing anyone to pretty up if that's not his/her cup of tea. You'll be judged negatively if you don't play the pretty game? Well, you are also judged negatively if you are…

Instead of having a repost of an i09 article where 90% of the comments were along the lines of " WHY ARE WOMEN SO STUPID SEE THERE ARE LITERALLY NO BENEFITS TO HEELS AND YOU CANNOT WALK IN THEM DESPITE EVIDENCE THAT MILLIONS OF WOMEN WALK IN THE EVERYDAY AND SEE WOMEN WANT TO BE SUBJUGATED BECAUSE HEELS MAKE THEM…

Obviously this would be much cooler if it just told you your measurements and then let you shop wherever you damn well pleased

I never denied there are plenty of ways to exercise without a gym or equipment - in fact, I specifically made this point. I'm saying that a lack of knowledge, which is crucial, and inaccessible for some, can be a barrier. I'm not sure why you find this point so baffling.

I think some of the comments are missing an important point. Yes, some people can change their eating and exercise habits and lose weight (although this is statistically not often permanent), but others can't—and you can't tell by looking at people whether their habits are the main cause for their size. Some people,…

I'm 15 lbs overweight because I do all of the things I do to try to stay in shape. If I didn't do those things, I'd be 100 lbs overweight.

This comment is stupid and you do sound like a troll. Your entire post is one big: "Its all you fault for being fat! Because your lazy and eat too much!" You need to educate yourself about the reasons people can be overweight. You are concern trolling.

I love how because it's a woman, her obsessive stalker behaviour is considered "beautiful and sincere" or "wearing her heart on her sleeve" but if a guy did that kind of stuff towards a girl, and then peed infront of her while she was sleeping after being rejected, you'd rightly consider him a dangerous nut.

If we're talking Star Trek: TNG characters' outfits (Picard is captain of the Enterprise in that series), that dress matches up best with what Deanna Troi would wear.

I don't think of "Friend Zones" in the Nice Guy (tm) way, but I do think being friends/colleagues can be a complication. Or, when one of the people has things going on in their lives that they're not prepared to deal with, it can be an easy fall back. I'm glad that I have developed a friendship with this person, and…

My last pseudo-dumping (friend-zoning? though I hate that term) landed me on a therapist's couch in tears with all of those feelings. I hate feeling like one person triggered all of this, but I know it's bigger, and so I'm trying to figure out how to handle it better for my own sanity.

Ugh. Realizing that the person you love does not love you back is such a horrible feeling. And the moment your realize it - often before s/he has come out and said it - is such a horrible state of panic because you suddenly KNOW the breakup is coming. It's like a split second that you can feel it and then you are just…

Did anyone else see the name "Robert Lowell" and immediately think of Liz Lemon explaining the crew they were going to go to Boston?

I'm sorry if this comes across as judgmental, but the only person that I knew who gained more than five pounds freshman year had major depression in the middle of the year and dealt with it through eating really unhealthily and not leaving her bed, but most of my friends drank and ate pretty much as much as they…

Please, please, PLEASE do not put the photo of the bed bug where it turns up on the mainpage. PLEASE. I've been through this - got them from used baby furniture, found them when I was on bedrest, had them when I was immediately postpartum, spent thousands of dollars to get rid of them, had them come back - all in…

i'll wait until that study comes out, thank you.

LOL I don't care what you think a normal body is or does, you still don't understand what normal means. Thanks for playing tho!

This is a beautiful, lovely article which I shall be clutching to my bosom in adoration.