What Fat Women Want

Wanting to be thin is only part of the story.

Frances Kuffel is the author of Passing for Thin: Losing Half My Weight and Finding My Self. See full bio

November 8, 2009

The Visible Need Not Apply

And the facts on most health problems aren't in on obesity. Is Diabetes 2 a fat thing, a food habit thing, genetic or a random occurance? Does the fat person control his blood sugar becuase he stops eating ice cream or because, as a concequence of not eating sweets, he loses some weight? For that matter, should the thin employee who eats a Snickers bar at her desk also be penalized of unhealthy behavior? Read More

August 14, 2009

I Don't Want to Be a "Night Eater"

Those are the words of Failure, Guilt, Shame, Self-disgust, Self-judgment, Fear, Loneliness -- and they, too, have their uses (at least when one stays away from the ice cream long enough to study them). Read More

August 13, 2009

Where to Find Kindness from Strangers

I've been writing about my mother's rapidly declining health recently. This week we needed to make some painful decisions about where she will be best taken care of in the short term before we can move my parents into assisted living near family. Read More

August 3, 2009

Got Talent!

"Never mind all these young acts you've seen out of the back," Morgan said in a tacit admission that in some timgs, age and experience ("Five long years I thought you were my man") add body, figuratively and literally, to a performance. Read More

July 18, 2009

Survival of the Greenest

It's a perfect game because it's a pan-gender return to childhood when the words "let's pretend" had more meaning than "you're hired".

June 21, 2009

Far Away and All Too Soon

Lately, I've been disturbed by an old New Yorker article. When container ships offload their cargo, their main pickup is American scrap metal and waste paper that are recycled by the Chinese into more junk we can't live without. It's hitting a little too close to home as I watch my parents' plans for permanance disintegrate in the quicksand of aging.

June 2, 2009

Euridice Ascending

Entombed in that air conditioned, quiet house with theoretical commitments rather than times in a day book, I need to remember that when people and things belong to someone, that someone is in charge. If belonging is mutual, then so is the power. I'll be there with as much say in the disposition of me as my parents have. Read More

May 27, 2009

May I Wear Wool After Memorial Day???

All of this turned into more chaos when I noticed that the photo on my personal blog that was taken about a month ago is also eleven pounds ago. My head, when it comes to summer clothes, is starting to turn into the stateroom scene from A Night at the Opera.

April 28, 2009

Which Are You?

Foodies eat for the sake of food. But the other kind of person, the eatie, eats for the sake of eating. At their most extreme, eaties don't care about the food or the company. It's the quantity and its effects that count. Read More

April 21, 2009

Saved by the Dog

Daisy saved me from the egg dish I didn't realize had bread in it until I'd taken a bite. She huddled as close to me as she could get, making the trips to the buffet disruptions of love. As chocoloates were passed around, she whined to pee and I escorted her to the garden and had a cigarette. After a couple of hours, she turned into a frantic brat. No one was surprised that we were the first to leave. Read More

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