My friends paid a boy to kiss me. I was sweet sixteen and never been kissed - a fact that I remain unapologetic about to this day - but my friends decided that the best birthday present they could give me would be a soft-lipped hottie to revoke my VL …

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I ran across an advice column today in my Google alerts that managed to make me indignant on three totally different levels, one at a time. Allow me to take you along on my journey! It really starts with the first paragraph of the question.
My boyfriend Chris is 6 foot, 7 inches. I’m 5-foot, [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “An Emotional Journey In Three Acts”, url: “http://www.bfdblog.com/2008/09/24/an-emotional-journey-in-three-acts/” });

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This week last year ranged from humorous to serious as I discussed topics ranging from cartoons to hospitals.

In the training tips department, I wrote about training options while on the road. There are a lot of different ways to stay in shape even if you travel regularly, and this article pointed at some different [...]

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Continue reading → This Week Last Year: Heart Attacks, Cyclists & Caffeine Humor

You are the current U.S. Open Champion and her equally-as-talented sister. People the world over adore you. You’ve made unprecedented strides in both of your athletic careers and at the same time managed to keep your personal lives on an even keel. …

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Dear Men,I owe you an apology. All these years I had thought that women had the lock on self-hate in print form a la Cosmopolitan and Glamour. Even “health and fitness” magazines often aren’t much better in terms of building self worth and establishi…

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Hobbits are real!Or a Brit. Or a Minnesotan. Or, if you’re really cool: a Masai. In addition to their ability to jump like they’re on a pogo stick, minus the stick, the Masai are famous for their ability to walk and run long distances with significa…

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So a while ago I confessed my fascination with how athletes “take care of business” during an athletic competition. This fascintation generally takes the form of intrusive questions asked to anyone who will sit still long enough to listen to me. My f…

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Lunch
As a follow up to last week’s Primal Challenge, “Getting Back to Nature,” I thought I’d published a few emails I’ve received from a hardcore Primal Blueprint follower. Talk about getting Primal. This guy is trying it all.
Don’t worry. You don’t have to catch, gut and eat your own rabbits or gather your own raspberries [...]

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Lunch
As a follow up to last week’s Primal Challenge, “Getting Back to Nature,” I thought I’d published a few emails I’ve received from a hardcore Primal Blueprint follower. Talk about getting Primal. This guy is trying it all.
Don’t worry. You don’t have to catch, gut and eat your own rabbits or gather your own raspberries [...]

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Continue reading → A Day in the Life of Modern Grok: An MDA Reader Gets Primal

We had an office party today involving cake. And as I stood around with my co-workers making awkward conversation and enjoying my slice of cake, I overheard comments that felt very familiar.
“This cake is sugar free and fat free, right? Ha, ha!”
“Hey [Guy Doing South Beach], is this South Beach cake?”
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We had an office party today involving cake. And as I stood around with my co-workers making awkward conversation and enjoying my slice of cake, I overheard comments that felt very familiar.
“This cake is sugar free and fat free, right? Ha, ha!”
“Hey [Guy Doing South Beach], is this South Beach cake?”
“Oh, can I just have [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Treats At The Office”, url: “http://www.bfdblog.com/2008/09/05/treats-at-the-office/” });

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We had an office party today involving cake. And as I stood around with my co-workers making awkward conversation and enjoying my slice of cake, I overheard comments that felt very familiar.
“This cake is sugar free and fat free, right? Ha, ha!”
“Hey [Guy Doing South Beach], is this South Beach cake?”
“Oh, can I just have [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Treats At The Office”, url: “http://www.bfdblog.com/2008/09/05/treats-at-the-office/” });

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We had an office party today involving cake. And as I stood around with my co-workers making awkward conversation and enjoying my slice of cake, I overheard comments that felt very familiar.
“This cake is sugar free and fat free, right? Ha, ha!”
“Hey [Guy Doing South Beach], is this South Beach cake?”
“Oh, can I just have [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Treats At The Office”, url: “http://www.bfdblog.com/2008/09/05/treats-at-the-office/” });

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Continue reading → Treats At The Office

We had an office party today involving cake. And as I stood around with my co-workers making awkward conversation and enjoying my slice of cake, I overheard comments that felt very familiar.
“This cake is sugar free and fat free, right? Ha, ha!”
“Hey [Guy Doing South Beach], is this South Beach cake?”
“Oh, can I just have [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Treats At The Office”, url: “http://www.bfdblog.com/2008/09/05/treats-at-the-office/” });

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Wanna hitch a ride?Originally uploaded by strph
My Flickr and Twitter friend Strph has posted the best Flickr set ever. It’s called “How Not to Shoot Fat Chicks,” and it’s a collection of very familiar rules about how fat women must never be photographed—with accompanying photos that break all the rules. The rules thus far (there [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Rules For Taking Pics Of Fat Chicks”, url: “http://www.bfdblog.com/2008/09/03/rules-for-taking-pics-of-fat-chicks/” });

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This is Chris after his successful pec implant surgery.I get a lot of interesting e-mail from this website. Often it’s people trying to sell me various enhancement products for appendages I don’t even possess. Occasionally it is someone writing to co…

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Continue reading → He Said, She Said: A Gym Story

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Or you could just cut to the chase and do this.Whether you like group fitness or running solo through your neighborhood, the cool thing about exercising is all the opportunities you get to completely humiliate yourself. So it is with some trepidation …

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Continue reading → Charlotte’s Guide to Embarrassing Yourself While Exercising

Krispy Kreme bacon cheddar cheeseburgersOriginally uploaded by ccaviness
Oh my god, Krispy Kreme cheeseburgers! I pondered this for a minute to answer the question asked in the title. I came up with “so wrong it’s right” because I would totally try one of these things. Of course at least one very articulate person in the [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “The Krispy Kreme Cheeseburger: So Wrong It’s Right? Or Just Plain Wrong?”, url: “http://www.bfdblog.com/2008/08/01/the-krispy-kreme-cheeseburger-so-wrong-its-right-or-just-plain-wrong/” });

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fat princessOriginally uploaded by mo pie
The furor over the game “Fat Princess” has finally hit the mainstream media, and its long past time I wrote about it here. After all, back in those halcyon days when I had spare time, I used to play video games; these days, my husband and one of my best [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Fat Princess”, url: “http://www.bfdblog.com/2008/07/29/fat-princess/” });

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I was expecting this scale to rank you from, say, Kate Moss to John Goodman. But actually it seems a bit more tongue-in-cheek than that!
It seems everyone is obsessed about their weight these days. Too fat, too thin, size zero this, obese that. The whole weight debate is enough to make you want to smash [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Celebrity Weighing Scale”, url: “http://www.bfdblog.com/2008/05/28/celebrity-weighing-scale/” });

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Life, these last couple of months, has been a gel-filled stress-ball’s squeeze-frenzied nightmare.
Here’s a little something about me: As I’ve said before, when the pressure is on, simple carbohydrates are my lifelong addiction buddie…

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Here are some songs to help you lose weight… with terrible poetry! A CD featuring songs like “I’m A Hottie Now” and “I Think I’ll Go To Saks.” Put aside the Shakira and the Kelly Clarkson and self-loathe your way to being thin with lyrics such as…
Thin! — I don’t deny it. [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “I Hate My Fat / Yeah Yeah Yeah”, url: “http://www.bfdblog.com/2008/05/05/i-am-gross-and-fat-yeah-yeah-yeah/” });

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Ed. Disclosure: This entry is not really food related (well, dog food I suppose), but I just had to share it with my friends who are reading this site. Part of the purpose of Almost Fit is documenting my life’s changes as I lose weight and get in…

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Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian (I am really sad that I know who either of these people is) and The Evil (hint: a food), all together in one news tidbit. Apparently, on a Vegas radio show, Paris said of Kim:
“I would not want [Kim’s butt] — it’s gross! It reminds me of [the evil] [...]

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Yesterday I ran across two great posts that I wanted to share; first, Rachel’s, which details some advice from magazines of the 1950s. (One magazine from the 70s that I sometimes bring into my classes has an article about how to raise your son to be a “real man” and contains the line, “Do you [...]

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When I was growing up, I watched the Carol Burnette show almost every day. It was on at 5:00 for an hour and my mom hated it. She called Carol “that screaming woman”, but I loved Tim Conway and the other cast members. This is the Tim Conw…

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In the comments to this post, a number of people brought up Chris Farley and the Chippendale’s skit he did with Patrick Swayze (we love you, Patrick) on Saturday Night Live. (Video is here.)
Bina said:
the joke in that was that the fat guy took his dancing and mad skillz seriously but was obviously never, [...]

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Angela sends along a story about baseball’s Florida Marlins, who are forming a male plus-size cheerleading squad called the Manatees.
The team hopes to recruit seven to 10 tubby men to dance, cheer and jiggle during Friday and Saturday home games this season. Real manatees, 1,200-pound mammals sometimes referred to as “sea cows,” [...]

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If there’s one universal problem plaguing women today, it’s that we all feel terribly guilty about one thing. That thing, of course, is our lip gloss. Can I get an amen?
In a list of hypothetical resolutions posted at Sephora, one is (big surprise) “I Will Lose Weight.” The tie-in product to this resolution [...]

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Following in the footsteps of fellow Scientologist and heterosexual John Travolta, Tom Cruise is wearing a fat suit (and a bald wig) for a movie role. Photos have been leaked online. He’s pretty pissed off though, because it spoils the surprise. (I won’t name the movie, in case you want to be surprised [...]

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Rachel sends along this spoof of the Backstreet Boys’ “I Want It That Way” called “I Want A Fat Babe.”

Of course the comments are predictable as ever. Fat girls are gross, blah blah blah. And of course the video involves the fat babe mostly eating, with lyrics like “Queen of the all-you-can-eat [...]

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birth of venus Originally uploaded by mo pie
In the comments, reader Lynette pointed me to this post from Diet Blog, about Florence Studios’ “Beautifully Big” collection.
If you follow the Diet Blog link, you’ll see the original David and Michaelangelo’s David side by side, which [...]

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This game is so insane that I have no idea what to say about it. The object is to fling, like, hot dogs at Paris Hilton. She eats them and gets fatter and fatter; the fatter she gets, the higher your score. At the end, you can give her “sympathy liposuction” and watch her deflate. [...]

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The article is called “How To Look Like A Plus-Size Model.” But, I’m sorry, if I ever put bronzer on my double chin to make it “recede,” you have my permission to stone me to death with Double Stuf Oreos.
 Bookmark at:StumbleUpon | Digg | Del.icio.us | Dzone | Newsvine | Spurl | Simpy | Furl [...]

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I’ve been looking for the new trailer for The Heartbreak Kid online, ever since a friend told me about it. I was going to give up and try to describe it in words, but here it is online. It is the second video from the top, the one called “mother-in-law.” I think it [...]

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Photo byRefracted Moments™I am not shy about sharing my belief that caffeine is worse for you than alcohol and tobacco. Rather than repeat myself, I would rather give you a laugh by pointing you over to a Basic Instructions comic strip about “How to Quit Drinking Caffeine“. It’s a four panel strip by [...]

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Thanks to Pop Culture Junk Mail, I discovered a very funny site dedicated to mocking sexist, illogical, badly drawn, and otherwise ridiculous Stupid Comics. I thought of you guys when I read this one, in which a woman loses 56 pounds in 5 weeks, then hooks up with the boss who ordered her to lose [...]

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