Now is the perfect time to assess your family’s approach to eating healthy and promoting positive body image. What’s your game plan for the school year? Here are a few tips to get you started…
Make after-school snacks into DIY projects
Remember this guy?

Yeah, the whole “wagon wheel” idea made plain ol’ cheese and crackers seem like [...]

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I’ve been hooked on ABC Family’s “Huge” from the first episode.  The show was co-created by Winnie Holzman, who has another classic angsty TV masterpiece under her belt. Angela Chase, anyone? Jordan Catalano? The other creator is Holzman’s daughter, Savannah Dooley. I love the mother-daughter element at work here, and I love that they have [...]

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I attended my third BlogHer conference this weekend (my first as a mom with new mommy mush brain, so I’m proud to have simply made it through three days without breaking out into baby talk or serenading fellow conference goers with my rousing rendition of “The Itsy Bitsy Spider”). Let me tell you, it’s [...]

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I’ve been invited to take part in The Body Image Revolution Telesummit, which brings together some pretty kick ass body image experts and activists including Wendy Shanker (author of The Fat Girl’s Guide to Life and the forthcoming Are You My Guru?), Nancy Gruver (founder of New Moon magazine and its web community for [...]

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If you or any of your nearest and dearest happen to be sitting in an obstetrician’s waiting room this month, flip to page 54 in the June issue of Pregnancy magazine to check out an excerpt from Does This Pregnancy Make Me Look Fat?
You can also read it online here.
“The Big Lies of [...]

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The tracking of pounds gained during pregnancy and weight lost after childbirth can be a stressful experience–especially for those with a history of poor body image and/or disordered eating. There are some practical rules I followed during my own pregnancy (and I’m continuing to stick to as a new mom!). I’ve shared them in this [...]

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Oprah interviewed Women Food and God author Geneen Roth on her show this week and admitted that she sees last January’s “How Did I Let This Happen Again?” cover of O Magazine in a new light after reading Roth’s book. Women Food and God is an extension of what Roth has been preaching for years: [...]

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After hearing Biggest Loser star Jillian Michaels say that she probably will adopt because she “can’t handle” what pregnancy might do to her body, Gwynnie and Madonna’s trainer Tracy Anderson wants to give hope to women whose body image fears might have them thinking twice about getting pregnant (while she conveniently plugs her fitness program). [...]

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Kim Brooks opens up about her weight in her Salon essay, “I’m pregnant, I’m fat and I hate it.” After the birth of her first child, she found it hard to take off the pounds. Now pregnant with her second, Brooks is stressing about the “predicament” she’s found herself in thanks to her approach to [...]

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In case you haven’t noticed, there is a whole new lexicon of terms associated with pregnancy and new motherhood, er, make that the bodies of pregnant women and new moms. These catch phrases are a perfect fit for tabloid articles about how much this celebrity gained during those nine months or how fast that one [...]

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