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I would like to invite you all to visit The Full-Bodied (Book) Blog where I am featuring the publisher and authors at Pearlsong Press during the week of June 11-18, 2012.…

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PLUS Model Magazine, according to an article by Tamara Abraham for the United Kingdom-based online blog Daily Mail, has sparked controversy. See if you can guess what the controversy is from the accompanying photograph. Then check out my Living…

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I sat on my ass all day yesterday and when I finally got up, it was to move to a bar to play board games with friends, eat sweet potato fries and drink Shirley Temples. Today, I did the same thing, minus actually leaving the house.



Does this sound like someone who is living a healthy lifestyle?



No, it sounds like someone who has yet to accept that the time to start changing my lifestyle is now. It's been over three weeks since I… Continue

My father got diagnosed with leukemia when I was 12, but, as much as the incident forced me to deal with mortality at a young age, I didn't really relate that mortality to myself, as much as to my parents. When my mother got diagnosed with breast cancer in September 2008, I was older and better able to realize the connection between what we put into our body and the ultimate health of that body. Following her breast cancer diagnoses, I quit eating factory farmed meat and produce full of…

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Today, something happened that has never happened to me before: I found 8 (yes eight!) adorable, comfortable and supportive bras that fit me.

Any sized breast can appreciate the utter hell that is shopping for a bra, the pain of which is only surpassed by child birth and shopping for a swimsuit. As a teenager, my well-meaning mother would drag me to Nordstrom's to be properly fit for a bra, only to find out that they "don't really carry bras in that size" and if they did happen…

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I think we women have gotten exactly what others think we deserve. And they have been so successful at it because we never fight back.

Now I am not going to go into each black hole we have climbed into, every enemy we have given up our souls to, but I want to chew the fat for awhile about the world of body image - the lack of it, the self loathing that surrounds it and I really want to be perfectly honest with you all.…

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15 years ago I weighed 305 pounds, my husband left me for another (thinner) woman, I was increasingly getting more unhealthy and my life seemed out of my control. Fortunately all that changed. I went on to lose 130 pounds, remarry a great guy, raise two my/our wonderful children together and wrote a book, Awaken the Diet Within (Warner Books) about my journey. My second book, The Vice Busting Diet (St. Martin's Press) got the attention of and 'endorsement'/cover quote from Dr. Mehmet Oz and a… Continue