Shall we never never get rid of this Past? … It lies upon the Present like a giant’s dead body.

I always figured we were born to fly, one way or other, so I couldn’t stand most men shuffling along with all the iron of the earth in their blood. I never met a man...

I had a dream about you, I was cooking dinner and you came out of the bathroom with a troubled look on your face. When I asked what was wrong you said “I have never...

a woman who can fit in a size seven, five, or three isn’t the definition of what beautiful means to me.

J_Doe032692 wrote: I am not a thin person. However this does not give people the right to taunt me, calling me ugly and worthless, telling me to kill myself because no one will ever want...

Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I’ve lost!

I’ve been chained to my bathroom scale for two decades now. I’ve used the number on my scale to tell me if I’m valuable or not. I’ve let the number on my scale destroy many...

There are a lot of valid reasons for wanting to feel safer. But hiding from pain or perceived threats behind a wall of weight is not the way to go about it. First of all,...

Mámá was fond of saying that nothing tastes as good as skinny feels—an aphorism I was pretty sure she’d cribbed from the thinspiration sites she subscribed to online—but I believed that anyone who said such...

Consequently, any boy who appeared at such a time was bound to carry a certain weight, a sort of saving grace, a fateful gravity.

My vocal chords fought to contain the memories that leaked out; I felt the weight off it all pressing down on me.

I spent most of my youth hauling sides of beef and pork to my father’s shop. Carrying you is far more enjoyable.””How sweet,” Annabelle mumbled sickly, her eyes closed. “Every woman dreams of being told...

I’ve got to make sure I’m keeping weight on.

every woman is beautifulbeyond what a magazine can see,whether she’s a size larger than 10or a size smaller than 3.

On day one of the drive, I saw my first dome sky. The world was so flat that I could see the level horizon all around me and the sky looked like a dome. Skies...

I’ve been into weight training for many, many years and you add to that a good dose of cardio, don’t overindulge, and you can do all right.

I enjoy a torture session on the rowing machine and I also enjoy my mom’s homemade peach cobbler. I enjoy flopping like that dead fish with hips that can’t lie in dance class, and I...

Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!

When a man’s bank balance becomes too small, his woman flees. For a man to do the same, his woman’s body — or vagina — has to do the opposite.

Some words are sweet but unprotifable! Some are bitter but important. First weigh your words on the counter of integrity and speak not only because your words are sweet, but because they contain the truth!

The Decision…I wiped my hands on my pinaforenow sullied and stainednot crisp or pressedas it had been before…

It is not easy to find someone your size once the Freshman Fifteen turns to the Sophomore Forty or the Senior Sixty. Even when, through some miracle of self-restraint and bulimia, college girls managed to...

Finally, I could see with startling clarity that the time I had spent experiencing pain on a run was outweighed by the amount of time that I felt good about it. I was aglow. I...

I put on weight like Santa Claus. I just get this belly that kind of extends out.

A lot of people are doing something about their weight, but by their own reckoning, it isn’t enough to get the results they want.

It’s inspiring, I think, for women out there to see I’m a regular person. I am the every woman who’s struggled with my weight.

I’m not going to miss 95% of life to weigh 5% less.

I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.

In some cases, people with a body (whose size) they did not long for are victims of having a bank balance (whose size) they longed for.

The size of the tree you cut determines the weight with which you have to throw the axe.

I want to change my life…except I sort of like it. I mean, I couldn’t be more delighted every Monday night after Fletch goes to bed when I come downstairs, pull up the Bachelor on...

In 1944-1945, Dr Ancel Keys, a specialist in nutrition and the inventor of the K-ration, led a carefully controlled yearlong study of starvation at the University of Minnesota Laboratory of Physiological Hygiene. It was hoped...

You don’t run,’ he corrected me. ‘But you’re more than able.’ There was no shadow of doubt in his voice. Hearing it from someone else made me realize: there was nothing stopping me from running...

Xavier stares past her with watery eyes. ‘Why does the world feel the need to drop its weight upon my shoulders?’ he barely whispers. His mother strokes his hair.’Maybe it believes you can handle it,’...

A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.

[Henry Cavendish] fixed the weight of the earth; he established the proportions of the constituents of the air; he occupied himself with the quantitative study of the laws of heat; and lastly, he demonstrated the...

I did not know the work of mourningIs like carrying a bag of cementUp a mountain at nightThe mountaintop is not in sightBecause there is no mountaintopPoor Sisyphus griefI did not know I would struggleThrough...

Staying requires being curious about who you actually are when you don’t take yourself to be a collection of memories.When you don’t infer your existence form replaying what happened to you, when you don’t take...

To a man, a woman is fun to be with … until she gains weight. To a woman, a man is fun to live with … until he loses his job.

I got fat, and I decided to do something about it, so I got fatter.

I stuff another handful of Raisinets in my mouth. What gets me is the ‘pretty face’ bit. ‘Cause I won’t mind being reminded I’m fat as long as you water it down first. Why not...

Want to lose weight? Do more than just think about it. You don’t need to hold off while you keep searching for an abundance of motivation to lose weight.What you need is an abundance of...

Running would help with the weight, but the weight did not help with running.

That’s the key, you know, confidence. I know for a fact that if you genuinely like your body, so can others. It doesn’t really matter if it’s short, tall, fat or thin, it just matters...

No matter what a woman’s appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize – as her personal problem – observations she makes about the beauty myth...

Fat-bashing in all its varied forms–criticism, exclusion, shaming, fat talk, self-deprecation, jokes, gossip, bullying–is one of the last acceptable forms of prejudice. From a very young age, before they can walk away or defend themselves,...

Constantly stopping to explain oneself may expand into a frustrating burden for the rare individual, so ceasing to do so is like finally dropping the weights and sprinting towards his goals. Those who insincerely misunderstand,...

At some point, it’s time to stop fighting with death, my thighs and the way things are. And to realize that emotional eating in nothing but bolting from multiple versions of the above: the obsession...

I’m gaining weight the right way: I’m drinking beer.

I study men like I study books: I skim their midsections.