ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT
Healthy Living Blogging Healthy Alternative, some HLB tumblr, has a new baby and a job and evidently hasn’t been posting much. Most people probably assumed she was just busy with a newborn and supporting her stay at home dad boyfriend – until this showed up on her blog: My boyfriend has been really supportive and has tried dieting with me, but I just cant seem to stay on course. I am up around 180lbs and my boyfriend has begun to get turned off from me sexually due to my weight and lack of motivation. When we got together I was fit and ambitious. Now I am lazy and unmotivated. This blog has gone to Crap. My relationship has gone to Crap…My boyfriend has been under a lot of stress being a stay-at-home dad, and my leaving him home all day then coming home smelling like cigarettes, eating gross chinese food then passing out before fulfilling his sexual needs (for weeks) has driven him away. An outpouring of support followed, full of advice and hugs, and she went on to respond to reader messages with the news that “I actually created this blog after he sent me a traumatizing email about my weight…” Then a surprising follow up post appeared a couple of hours later: Just to clarify… Of course, speculation has now begun about whether her boyfriend actually wrote the post. But if he did…wtf? Why would a woman come home, see that her boyfriend posted that on her blog, and then respond with “hopefully he still believes in me”? Girl, naw. Lorrie Fenn, the blogger behind “Token Fat Girl”, collapsed Friday and later died at the hospital. According to a post on “Little Loft Large Life”: She said she felt a little weird and collapsed. She was rushed to the hospital but didn’t make it. She died the day after her 30th birthday. In her final blog post Lorrie announced she would be taking a break from blogging, saying it “doesn’t feel healthy to me anymore”: It feels degrading. I find myself waiting for others to tell me if what I ate looks healthy enough, or if my diet plan is to their standards, if I’m eating few enough calories, if I’m losing weight like they did, moving like they are, doing it their way…I’ve come to realize in these past six years that I’m the token fat girl because I put myself here physically and mentally. I’ve become and stayed, in many ways, what I assumed other people thought of me. Waiting for other people to tell me that I’m worthy. A habit I’ve worked on many, many times. I also believe that right now, I am everything that I need and want to be. Lorrie’s family requests “donations in honor of Lorrie to the American Heart Association or Ronald McDonald House” rather than flowers or gifts. Update: It has been confirmed that Lorrie died of a heart attack after finishing a workout on a treadmill.
Clare, some healthy living blogger, posted today about her struggle with emotional eating.
After being called out in the comments, Clare then edited her post to say: As I work through my emotional eating, I’ve been steering clear of the word binge. It just seems too drastic – something that only very sick, very overweight people do. (Which is totally wrong and rude, but I think often the stigma.) Not something that I, a functioning, fit, thin person does. What I was doing was just emotional eating. Just eating too much sometimes. She explains in her comments that her edit is “more appropriate and pc this way”. Because obviously changing the word from “obese” to merely “overweight” and stating that it’s “often the stigma” totally excuses the implication she’s making – which is, only fatties binge eat. Clare then goes on to say that even if you’re not overweight, eating just two cookies fits the definition of a binge if you eat them because you are having emotions. So, basically, all emotional eating counts as binge eating? Thank you for the clarification, Dr. Clare! Lindsay, group fitness instructor, has “some observations and they need to be known”. In her (apparently now deleted) guest post for Carrots N Cake titled “Confessions of a Group Fitness Instructor“, Lindsay provided a list of complaints about her students. The list included things like “If you insist on NOT wearing deodorant to class, I insist on calling you out in front of the class. Suave is cheap. Like $1. Get some. It’ll feel real nice” and saying that the blessings of teaching a class involve “days when people jump as high as I tell them to, complete the number of reps I request, and wear deodorant. So basically never.” She then goes on to offer wardrobe suggestions – “Please don’t wear white Keds to class. Blue Keds are fine”; “White scrunch socks are OUT. Blue ones – IN. Leoturds – OUT. Free 5k race shirts – IN.” Caitlin HTP, her husband is British you know, moderates her comments like pretty much every blog on the internet nowadays. And like most bloggers, she will sometimes use her moderation power to manufacture some drama: Oh come on. I’m so tired of bloggers approving the random “negative” comment just so they can point and scream “Do you SEE what I have to DEAL with? DO YOU????”. The point of moderating is so you can just delete these things. Either delete them and move on like a big girl, or turn off moderation so everyone can see the horrible comments you suffer through. But you don’t get it both ways.
Healthy Living Blogging Mommy Blogging Julie of “The Daily Julie”, pregnant, surely speaks on behalf of all pregnant women with her recent post “How to Talk to a Pregnant Lady”. Saying that “the questions you ask a preg are seemingly harmless and well meaning and most of the time, they are met with a smile by the recipient” she goes on to share a “secret” – your questions piss pregnant women off! What questions? Offensive, prying questions such as: 1. When are you due? Maybe you’re curious, maybe you just don’t know what else to say, but this is the number one question that any pregnant lady is asked every single day. I should just get a temporary glitter tattoo across my forehead that says April 11. 2. What are you having? Um, a baby? I know you mean to ask the gender, but really I don’t know and really it’s none of your business. 3. Have you picked out names? I find this question to be really personal. Maybe I have but maybe I don’t want tell anyone. Or maybe I’ve been thinking about names for 21 weeks and still haven’t figured it out. Either way, this question puts me in an awkward position, so best not to ask and stress me out, mkay? 4. Are you hoping for a boy or a girl? It’s cliche, but most pregnant ladies really just do hope for a healthy baby. There’s SO much that can go wrong during the course of pregnancy that it’s a miracle that so many babies come out healthy and perfect. Number five is about unsolicited child raising advice – which I can get behind if we are talking about some random waitress at Sizzler trying to tell some pregnant customer how spankings are the best discipline or something. Mainly because I’m usually at the next table yelling “hey Rita, less chit chat about time outs and more getting my Surf-n-Turf platter in front of me”. But Pregnant Julie declares “I don’t care if you’re Micholee Duggar and have been around the block 19 times. If I would like your opinion on babies, boobies or birthing, I’ll ask” which is a bit dismissive and know-it-all for a first time mom. I guess checking the “What To Expect” website every day makes her more of an expert than a woman who turned her vagina into a baby clown car. I could have agreed with her if she had made the post about how random strangers come up and start rubbing your belly or touching your baby. Invading someone’s personal space and touching their body without being invited is so crazy rude I think we could all support someone complaining about that. But some saleslady asking a routine question is not exactly an assault on personal privacy. Seriously, I’m sorry the checkout girl at Starbucks smiled and asked you about a very visible physical state that some women are delighted to talk about with anyone, anywhere, at every opportunity. How trying for the pregnant women of the world to deal with other people wanting to share your happiness! Julie is such a hero for standing up and saying “stop asking me about an event that many women would kill to experience” and preserving Private Pregnancy Rights for future generations. So fecund, so brave. In addition to her unqualified health advice, Caitlin of Healthy Tipping Point apparently thinks she can provide readers an adequate Holiday Gift Guide. Topping the list this year is none other than A BOOK SHE “WROTE”. Though HTP admitted it’s a shameless plug, it doesn’t make it less eye roll worthy. In fact, she even asked readers to “allow [her] another shameless plug” at the end of the post. If you have to ask “permission” on your own blog, perhaps you are doing it wrong.
Healthy Alternative’s Boyfriend Will Post On Her Blog
My boyfriend wrote that post while I was at work and that is what I came home to.
I’m going to leave it up because it’s 95% true and I need a fresh start…
‘Token Fat Girl’ Blogger Dies Suddenly At Age 30
Healthy Living Blogging
“Fitting It All In” Is Not Like Obese People
Lindsay Wants You To Wear Deodorant
Considering how many people already feel uncomfortable going to a gym because of the possibility of feeling out of place, you’d think a fitness instructor would try to instill a feeling of “it doesn’t matter how you look, as long as you show up”. It’s already daunting to many people who have issues with their appearance or fitness level, why make it public knowledge that instructors are judging you?
Caitlin HTP Will Approve Your Comment
Julie Will Tell You How To Talk To A Pregnant Person
Wondering What Gift To Buy Healthy Tipping Point? Her Own Book Of Course!
Aside from the fact that the Operation Beautiful are largely a collection of stories and Post-It notes, what the hole is with the shameless self-promotion?