Today, some sunshine in my life, good friend, Camy Tang guest blogs to share with us a preview of her third book, “Single Sashimi .” Our heroine on paper has a life that most would envy, and yet she is…

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Continue reading → Book preview Single Sashimi: Successful, Hot, Sharp yet in need of healing. Sound familiar?

(Photo credit: dorje-d)Note: this is a special Guest Post by LittleM, who is helping out while the Crab is on vacation. Thank you, LittleM!I am no orator, like Mer and Crab;I sit on sidelines while they write, and cheer.I’ll try to offer fitness th…

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Continue reading → Taking the “It’s Tooo Haaaaard” Out of Fitness

[By Crabby]Yes, it’s the suitcase picture again, which long-time readers recognize as a sign I’m out of town. But Merry’s still here (thank goodness!), and there will still be a Friday Giveaway for those interested in winning Stuff. And then I’ll be …

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[By Crabby]Alert readers will have noticed that Intrepid Co-blogger Merry Sunshine has taken a couple of days off. (She is rumored to have an actual JOB, which unfortunately tends to cut into one’s blogging time, especially when work matters get hect…

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In today’s guest post, Jen from Semi-Charmed Wife shares with us her story of recovery from “refunding” and anorexia, and what those EDs really meant to her. I remember back in my late 20’s my friends and I would call…

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Continue reading → Maintenance mode: Recovery is a journey not a destination

Today’s guest post is from Melissa, who is in her late 20’s, and has decided to use blogging as a way to help her and others in her journey to heal from disordered eating. Back in December of 2007, I…

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Continue reading → Healing beginnings: How blogging can help you heal from an eating disorder

Today we have a guest post from friend Maria Lemus who blogs at Sex and the Beach, a blog about a single woman’s guide to chronic living in Miami. Maria is a kindred spirit and one of the most amazing…

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Continue reading → Overcoming agoraphobia, panic attacks, and losing 50lbs in the process

Blogger: Gal Josefberg Blog: 60 in 3 I love this blog. Steph always has interesting subjects and a wonderful way of discussing them. However, there’s one thing I never understood, why Skinny Jeans? Why are women so preoccupied with being…

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Continue reading → A guy’s two cents: Throw away your skinny jeans ladies

Blogger: FlabulessBlog: Finding Flabuless Flabuless comes to us from New Zealand, and she is on a journey to shed 158 pounds from a high of 334. So far, she has said goodbye to 93 of those extra pounds. Yea for…

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Continue reading → Video post: Why wait til you’re thinner to live your back in skinny jeans life

Blogger: Anonymous cool blogger pal of Steph’sBlog: Anonymous Blog Three months ago Gul Zam poured petrol over her body and set herself alight. To her it was the only way out of a marriage so abusive that her husband Abdul…

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Blogger: Maria PalmaBlog: Beauty is Within plus a whole bunch more blogs Accept yourself for who you are… In a world where value is placed on how you look and what you wear, it can be a challenge to try…

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Blogger: Susan Parsons MDBlog: Diet Secrets MD NOTE: Dr. Parsons received a Master’s degree in Human Nutrition before going to medical school to become a physician. She has 3 degrees from Ohio State University – first a B.S. in English,…

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Continue reading → A doctor’s point of view: Is Our Obsession With Weight Loss News Unhealthy?

Blogger: The Pound SlayerBlog: The Pound Slayer In the early days of bridge building, step one was to fly a kite from one side of a ravine to the other. Builders on the opposite side would catch the kite, ground…

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Blogger: James Briscione, 4-star Chef with a B.S. in Nutrition/DieteticsBlog: Chef on the market In the restaurant, when dealing with food safety, we learn all about the ?danger zone.? It is the temperature range where bacteria can grow rapidly and…

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Blogger: Elizabeth KempkesBlog: Creamy Nougat Lair Make a list of the things you love about yourself. Pick 5 things. . .no, wait. . .10 things that you love about yourself and write them down. Put your list someplace where you…

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Blogger: KatieoBlog: Sister Skinny Are you familiar with the term muffin top? Did you know, for example, that there are people in the world who take pictures of other people who exhibit this condition and then put them up on…

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Blogger: AlicetiniBlog: Just a Girl I spent the evening with a couple of friends, one of whom is a lovely woman who we shall call ‘L’. L is actually a size bigger than me on the bottom half. She’s quite…

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Bloggers: Magali Amadei Claire Mysko Blog: 5 Resolutions to Transform the Fashion and Beauty Industries NOTE: Magali and Claire are the founders of Inside Beauty. Magali is a former top fashion model who suffered and healed from bulimia. She became…

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Continue reading → A Year Review in Retouched Pictures

Blogger: MamaVISIONBlog: MamaVISION NOTE: This post deals with some very graphic information about Anorexia and Suicide, but it is real life, and the intent behind the story is to educate people, namely parents and loved ones, about some of the…

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Continue reading → Anorexia and an Internet Suicide

Blogger: LauraBlog: Hello Sunshine Just as the narrator begins, since I was a child all I have wanted is to be good. To be the good girl who always does and says the right thing, eats with the right fork,…

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Continue reading → My Good Body

Blogger: Lara KulpaBlog: Lady de la Luna I remember a while ago, my aunt had told me that she’d been trying to practice “mindful eating”. Yesterday, I read an article in Shape magazine about letting go of the “diet mentality”…

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Continue reading → Is Mindless Eating “Weighing” You Down?

Blogger: Leslie GoldmanBlog: The Weighting Game at iVillage Diet Fitness My girlfriend, R., was out with her little girl enjoying a nice lunch when a grandpa-aged man approached the two of them and announced, completely unsolicited and pointing at R’s…

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Blogger: KristenBlog: KK On My Mind I’ve always struggled to scrape my way up to what I thought was good enough in the looks department. Every morning I would check myself out in my bathroom mirror, which, conveniently, only reflected…

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Continue reading → Diagnosed Pre-diabetic and scaling to “good enough”

Blogger: Steve MBlog: Blogolob Throughout human history women have played the mating game by stealth, using the masks and decorations of makeup and fashion to advertise and enhance their attractiveness to men and to other women. But they were always…

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