Hey, it’s the 30th!

And I have met my goal of posting on every weekday so far.  W00t!  :)
Oh, and if you’re curious about what I’m doing with the colors: I’m trying to mirror the seasons.  Where I live, most leaves are still green…but some are turning gold.  So green fading to yellow is the current idea.  :)

Day in the Life: Getting Dressed

[One of the occasional series of posts about my typical day.]
One of the great things about working in software is the dress code.  Most of my (male) coworkers wear jeans with tshirts or polos.  ”Dressy” for them is a buttondown shirt.  Slacks and sweaters fits in fine.  If I’m meeting with clients I may wear [...]

Clothes Shopping at ~400lbs!

This is a list of stores / catalogs that I’ve bought clothing from in the last few years.  Certainly there are other sources of supersize clothing out there, but this is where I’ve acquired mine :)

Being Fat and Fit

I found this on an “expert q&a” on exercise on the New York Times site with Steven Blair, an exercise researcher and former president of the American College of Sports Medicine.
Can someone be fat and fit? Yes.  We began in 1995 to look at fitness and fatness as predictors of mortality, separately and together. What [...]

Day in the Life: Oh, THAT

[One of the occasional series of posts about my typical day.]
THAT is something I sort of want to skip over.  In fact, it is one of the reasons I’m not using my name on this blog…I somehow doubt this would be the ideal post for a potential employer to read ;)
So far, in the “typical [...]

HAES book: BMI & Politics

In her book Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth about Your Weight (reviewed here) Linda Bacon recalls her days as a PhD candidate. This was also when the BMI standards were lowered, and, coincidently enough, her mentor, Judy Stern, was a member of the NIH Obesity Task Force.* 
When I expressed my surprise of the standards being [...]

Day in the Life: Shower, Chafing, & Jock Itch

Ah, the morning shower.  Warm water to get the kinks out, bright overhead heat lamps to help wake me up, and the daily question: shampoo & condition or just rinse & condition?
To explain: I have naturally curly hair, which is also naturally fragile hair, which I’ve made more fragile by coloring it. Some recommend that [...]

HAES book: “But not dieting is harmful, right?”

You may have read about the study Linda Bacon conducted comparing a standard diet program with a nondieting, “Health at Every Size”-style program, or my post about Bacon’s book (Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth about Your Weight) yesterday.
This is a story from the book that I wanted to shout from the treetops. :)
Dr [...]

Linda Bacon’s Health At Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight

I will be surprised if this book does NOT become the talk of the Fatosphere for a least a few days, (and not just because there are praising blurbs from Frances Berg, Deb Burgard, Paul Campos, Glenn Gaesser, Kate Harding and Marilyn Wann mixed in with other researchers, psychologists, and professors.)
Linda Bacon earned a master’s [...]

Supportive Shoes Rock

This is from an article on sports injuries, but I thought it generally relevant:
Many foot injuries are, in fact, the result of wearing the wrong shoes or the wrong shoe size.

Inspiration

Fillyjonk at Shapely Prose reminded me today of one of the immediate inspirations for this blog: Lesley at Fatshionista’s post “THIS IS 300: Taking Pictures, Being Personal, & Weighing 300 Pounds“.
One thing that reading some obesity research has given me is to realize that yes, I am an oddity (and there’s nothing wrong with that [...]

…and the other reason why I exercise

It’s called, “Use it or lose it.”
Last fall* I pulled a muscle in my right leg.  Kept up my daily walks, pulled it again – or maybe pulled another muscle.  This aggravated the occasional pain I would have in my right knee, and added some hip and thigh pain too.
By November I was noticeably limping [...]