The Curvy Nerd

I am now 18,000 words into my YA novel (not, by any stretch, a “winning” NaNoWriMo, but a HUGE accomplishment for me… and the reason I’ve not been blogging), and am simultaneously reading some recent YA titles, for tonal inspiration. When I started writing my novel, I didn’t even know what my heroine looked like. [...]

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I have a love/hate relationship with Halloween, and Halloween costumes. OK, it’s mostly a hate-based relationship. I haven’t dressed up since I was ten and the few occasions where I have “worn a costume,” it’s been my making a half-assed attempt to be something where I could wear clothes I already owned (see: Bridget Jones [...]

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I am NERDING OUT. I stumbled upon an academic article published in 2010, which examined media portrayals of the eating disorders anorexia & bulimia, vs. obesity & the eating disorder of food addiction, over approximately a ten year period. The article is by a professor and grad student at UCLA. For those of you who [...]

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So AskMen.com, in an effort to aid men in Being Awesome and Having Hot Girlfriends, has published an interesting top ten list. Top 10: Subtle Ways To Tell Her She’s Getting Fat.” … Amazingly, unlike with most journalism nowadays, this isn’t just the case of an incendiary headline + mundane article. AskMen.com reaches truly new [...]

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Kenlie’s Friend Makin’ Monday topic is “girly stuff,” though I would contend we call it woman stuff   FMM: Girly Questions 1. Do you like to shop? Not really.  Unless I have something specific that I want/need and am going to a store where I know I have a high likelihood of finding it, I [...]

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This morning, I received an email announcement that my company, which often provides employees with free healthy living tools, was giving away samples of thinkThin bars. They are nutritional supplements, essentially protein bars, for people who “care about what they eat.” It annoyed me, a lot. I noodled on it a moment. Then it hit [...]

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Two events recently took place, concurrently, which begged for some personal reflection so far as it concerns this blog, my “weight loss” and this journey. One blogger (*waves hello*) called me out for dispensing advice when I have, essentially, “lost only 15 pounds in thirteen years.” Dodgy maths aside, there’s that. On the same day, [...]

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*Warning: this piece may be triggering to those recovering or suffering from an eating disorder* When the press was going after Kate Middleton’s weight loss in March, outlets like Jezebel called out the tabloids for obsessing over her body and sensationalizing something that wasn’t that bad. However, her weight loss appears to have kept going, [...]

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An interesting discussion cropped up on Jezebel regarding whether it is anti-feminist to diet. This stems from a post by a woman conducting a social experiment, not to look in the mirror for a year. She’s a recovering anorexic who says that recovering made her a feminist… and now she’s on a diet. She wrote: [...]

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Recently I received a comment from a guy who read my original eHarmony fat hating post from Mavenity, and it inspired me to respond on the topic of self-identification of size in online dating. It’s a multi-faceted and nuanced issue, with which I have myself struggled, that is owed some additional exploration. Is there a [...]

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