The Skinny Little Bitch Project is a biweekly feature dedicated to examining the role of weight in celebrity culture and the impact of size in one woman’s daily life. The entries may be triggering should you suffer from an ED or body image issues. For more info on the project, or to read it from [...]

  When you exercise, the cunning machinery of your body gets to work. The process is as slow and as steady as a train. It’s rapacious, ingenious, and something that never fails to impress me. It’s not unlike that opening number from the Music Man: Or maybe it isn’t and I just like the Music [...]

  I was squatting naked on the floor. I held the glass scale in my hands and knocked it repetitively with medium force on the only exposed square of laminate on my floor, portioned out of the sea of clothing that covered the rest of my floor and cleared, for just this purpose. In this [...]

As previously chronicled (possibly to death? I don’t know…) I am not a thin woman. I never have been. I’ve always been this knock-kneed, fleshy, big-eyed creature. My sister, an artist, recently sent me a piece she had done featuring a photograph of me as a kid. I’m standing, hand on my hips, ankle-deep in [...]

The internet-age is a double-edged sword like everything. It gives us unlimited access to information and the potential to educate ourselves and connect with the world around us. But its got a shadow side too, and shadow is fitting, because nothing is as straightforward as black and white – there are degrees of awful that [...]

That headline might be a stretch. The JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) is publishing a report by Issa Dahabreh of the Tufts Medical Center in Boston. He looked at a whole series of studies and concluded that sporadic exercisers and sexers and more likely to have a myocardial infarction (heart attack). He makes it [...]