Chatting With Virgie Tovar, Editor Of Hot & Heavy!
News by Golda Poretsky, H.H.C. www.bodylovewellness.com Virgie Tovar is a fierce fatty to be reckoned with. And her new book, Hot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls On Life, Love & Fashion, is truly wonderful. If you want to read something that will literally make you laugh, cry, and change your life, get your hands on this […]
The Biggest Loser Is Coming For Your Kids #stopbiggestloser
News by Golda Poretsky, H.H.C. www.bodylovewellness.com Why should adults have all the fun of enforced starvation, dehydration, and emotional abuse on national TV? Finally, The Biggest Loser, NBC’s heinous, fat-hate juggernaut, is adding kids into this mix. Specifically, two 13-year-olds and a 16-year-old who are competing, sort of, in Season 14 of Yelling At Fat People The Biggest Loser. But […]
Body Diversity Is Really A Thing + How It Can Help You Feel Better About Your Body
News by Golda Poretsky, H.H.C. www.bodylovewellness.com In news that you may have missed, a recent study showed that showing women pictures of fatbodies made them like fat bodies more. In other words, those images of very thin women that you see all day long are messing with your head and making you hate your body more. Although […]
The Non-Dieter’s Holiday Survival Guide
News by Golda Poretsky, H.H.C. www.bodylovewellness.com It seems that every year around this time, I get gazillions of emails from folks who are nervous about the holidays. Explaining to your family that you don’t want to know the number of calories in pecan pie, that you’re not interested in that new diet book that worked […]
How To Deal With Positive(?) Comments About Your Body
News by Golda Poretsky, H.H.C. www.bodylovewellness.com I’ve been promising to write this post for a while now. A few months ago, I wrote a post about dealing with negative comments. You gave me some really positive feedback on it, but a number of you raised the question of how to deal with positive or seemingly positive comments. It’s […]
Losing Weight To Date Ain’t Great
News by Golda Poretsky, H.H.C. www.bodylovewellness.com Back in the mid 00′s, I went on my last diet ever, and lost a bunch of weight. I was still plus-sized, but because weight loss wins you lots of points in our f-ed up society, the weight loss did give me a temporary confidence boost. And so I […]
Do I Really Have To Give Up The Dream Of Being Thin?
News by Golda Poretsky, H.H.C. www.bodylovewellness.com Every once in a while, I get one of those emails that nearly knocks me over. “I am afraid to give up the dream of being thin. I have good days, where I can accept myself and think I am beautiful, but I can never let go of the […]
Feeling Judged
News by Golda Poretsky, H.H.C. www.bodylovewellness.com Ugh. Tell me if this has happened to you. You’re out somewhere. Maybe you took yourself out to lunch. Maybe you’re on the subway going to work. Maybe you’re at a work meeting. And you find yourself feeling judged by the people around you. You feel like people are […]
What Diets And Deodorants Have In Common (It’s Probably Not What You Think)
News by Golda Poretsky, H.H.C. www.bodylovewellness.com Last week, I came across this gem of a post about the history of antiperspirant/deodorant. You see, as recently as the early 1900’s, Americans weren’t too worried about sweaty or smelly underarms. In this time before air conditioning, when people often wore a lot more clothing than we do, even in […]
Why Portion Control Doesn’t Work (And What To Do Instead)
News by Golda Poretsky, H.H.C. www.bodylovewellness.com Let me know if this sounds familiar to you. You go on a diet or meal plan and you do really well with it for a little while. You feel in control, healthier, just “better” overall. And then something happens. You have a rough day at work. You have a fight […]