I’ll be sharing tips and advice as part of Your GPS for Parenting Success, a free 12-week teleseminar designed to give parents the tools to help their families thrive, not just survive. The series is produced Jacqueline Green, a sought after parenting educator who is working to put the top parenting experts [...]

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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 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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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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A group of eating disorder organizations that includes The Academy for Eating Disorders (AED), Binge Eating Disorder Association (BEDA), Eating Disorders Coalition (EDC), International Association for Eating Disorder Professionals (IADEP), and National Eating Disorder Association (NEDA) are encouraging school administrators to focus on health and lifestyle rather than weight as an indication of a student’s [...]

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As a soon-to-be mom of a girl, I am already completely princessed out and the poor kid hasn’t even been born yet. Avoiding a complete “pinkwash” when it comes to finding fun gifts for girls can be a daunting task, but fortunately there are some creative entrepreneurs and authors on the scene to make shopping [...]

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The New York Times tackles the breastfeeding diet today. The piece covers the science around the breastfeeding/weight-loss connection (it’s iffy), whether women attribute postpartum weight loss to breastfeeding (some do, some don’t), and how mothers feel about it (it’s complicated).
As a mom-to-be who plans to try breastfeeding–try being the operative word, as I’m of the [...]

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