*Here’s* your acceptable adipositivity

Actually, it’s more like post-adipose derma-positivity. Specifically, I mean those heaps of skin you have left after losing a shiz ton of blobby insulation tissue from your body. Ya know? Like this chick? (The one who got rejected entry from that weight loss mag for not sheathing her excess flesh? The bastards?) Now that’s worthy of a well done, round-of-applause, and a cookie (actually – maybe not on that last.. Read More

Science tells us we’re crapping wrong.

You know, I critique my dog’s OCD shitting ritual all the time. But maybe I have no room to speak. Because, according to science, I and the rest of my culture are (like so many things in our lives) doing it wrong. Unless, of course we have one of those ass-istive emission devices. I recently joked around about making my own toilet for weight loss, but I was reminded today.. Read More

Science says: we exhale our fat. Wait… what?

When Russell Simmons went to his first yoga class, it wasn’t to get some inner peace. It was to get some outer piece. While that changed drastically for him since that first visit, I think that’s what attracts a lot of people – men and women alike. Men wanna ogle dat ass. Chicks wanna own it. But – as many times as I’ve heard these transformation stories and people have.. Read More

Shape apron shaming: It’s flesh, not fat.

Let’s say you’re temporarily fat. You got wide this winter, summer’s coming, and the world’s ending. Right? When we witness excess in any form, it’s usually a symptom of underlying turmoil in the human under its influence. People who are perpetually too thin, too fat, too high, too drunk, whatever – generally aim to fill a pain void #ExceptionsExistDuh But you take someone like this who lost 170 pounds and.. Read More