Conversations With Bod

We had a tres feminine round table discussion and the neighborhood café. We also sipped (full cream) coffee and forked around with our carrot cakes. Taylor, mother of two children under three breathed a sigh of relief. Her mother was taking care of the kids and she had two hours to herself. Pedicure complete, she [...]

Apparently you do need to be brave or have truck-loads of courage to perform a simple task, if that task relates to strutting your stuff in a bikini if you should be curvier than a stick insect.
I like robust women. Robust women ought to be celebrated not harangued. How can a woman be considered a [...]

I love watching the Olympics, and justifiably so. It takes place once every four years and it is a pinnacle for athletes. Athletes may win medals from annual championships, but nothing speaks of success like an Olympic Medal, but there is the other side of the coin, when superficial magazines (that usually focus on celebrity [...]

We’re living in the era of the “blink and you’ll miss it” baby bulge. I have to thank Thea from Godiva Society for the link to an article (“Pregorexia inspired by thin celebs?”) that discusses what ordinary (non-celebrity) women, or mere mortals, see materialize before their eyes. Celebrities never, almost ever, have any skin stretch. [...]

PETA proclaims that it has its heart in the right place, but how many naked skinny or ‘athletic’ woman grace its posters? Yes, feel better in your own skin, especially if you’re lean, lithe and photogenic!
How much of this campaign is superficial, pandering to voyeuristic fantasies?
There are no women of the curve on PETA campaign [...]

Tell me if I am wrong. The rudest people on this planet, in terms of personal manners, arrogance and blatant inconsideration to any one’s feelings are famous chefs and rock stars. What happens when you put an arrogant chef and a fossilized rock star (like Ted Nugent) together? Something like this (to read the remainder, [...]

Call me irresponsible (no, Michael Bublé doesn’t own the copyright to the phrase) for blogging about this porker of a kitty,but how can one not fall in love with Prince Chunk? He has defied the social norms, and become a celebrity in his own right, appearing on two prime-time shows in days. How many can [...]

You know you’re doomed when you see certain people scout your area for a potential food outlet. If you, like me, have caring acquaintances who have nothing better to do than name-drop, then you’ll know what I mean when I say that my head is in a vice when two words crop up: Krispy Kreme.

Food resistance: to give in or deny?

I came across this article in the New York Times and it confused me a little because I couldn’t recall specific examples from my ordinary life but a question did pop into my mind:
Will fat people be blamed for visual trauma?
The idea that billions of dollars are lost because of fat people (slightly overweight, overweight, [...]

One of my virtual worldly travels took me Downunder where I found a great comment about ‘looking good naked.’ Body image is a daily supplement of life. It’s on television, in magazines and there isn’t a day that goes by where women aren’t confronted by the issue.
The comment - in response to a beauty writer’s [...]