Category Archives: What’s Really Normal

Perfect Cupcakes and Disordered Eating

Imagine this: you’re out with a dear friend you’ve not seen for a while, catching up over a meal. During the meal the friend makes several comments about how they’re being ‘bad’ because of their food choice, they really need to lose a few from their [body part], they really shouldn’t be eating this butContinue Reading

It’s Stop Fat Talk Week – Can You Do It?

Fat Talk is that part of a conversation where we talk about our bodies in terms of the amount of fat on any given body part.

It’s that part of a conversation where someone says “Oh I’ll be ‘bad’ and have the cream/sugar/icecream/cake/rice/whatever”.Continue Reading

Who Shapes Your Shape?

Fat Talk and How It Shapes Your Body Image I’m mulling over some conversations I’ve had this week about weight, and am aware that they’re really conversations about body image but that the women I was speaking with do not think they have any body image issues, it’s just normal and easy to talk aboutContinue Reading

Body Fat Is Bad?

How much body fat is too much? Is all body fat bad? What’s the diference between good body fat and bad body fat?Continue Reading

If Barbie Were Real…

Galia and Her Life-Sized Barbie I’ve written before about based on University research, but here’s something I wish I’d done instead, or also. But since someone else has done it, I can help spread the word and get more people thinking…. Barbie isn’t Real. But Ken Is? In 1996 researchers at the University of SouthContinue Reading

Why I’m Grateful to Weight Watchers

I know, that not something you’d ever expect me to say, right? But I am grateful to Weight Watchers, not because I reached my ‘goal weight’ with their programmes – I never did, any of the three times I signed on with them – but because something that happened during a lecture helped free meContinue Reading