Cracking the Egg: A Trampoline Tale
Elle Says: As a child, I was no stranger to blackened feet. The summer was an excuse to be barefoot, to pick blades of grass with my toes and to […]
Overheard: Shopping “Woes”
Elle Says: Overheard at Work: Senior coworker talking to a junior coworker on the other side of the cubicle: “Going shopping, I see a lot of sizes 6 and 8…and […]
The Game of Weight Loss®
Elle Says: I’ve never been one for fad diets. I consumed the literature, the news reports, and the testimonies of friends who had tried and failed at them – they […]
Resolving to Resolve in 2013
Elle says: New Year’s Eve is one of my favorite holidays, if not my favorite holiday. It’s a particularly adult holiday, in some ways. When you’re a child, you think […]
How I’m Like Pat from Silver Linings Playbook (and, no, it’s not because I’m People’s Sexiest (Wo)Man Alive like Bradley Cooper. I wish.)
Elle Says: Like many people, I get excited for the holiday season and for visits back home…only to remember that these visits are usually boring (a fact I conveniently forget […]
The Power of Naming
Elle Says: When you think about it, a name is merely a string of letters on paper, a sequence of phonemes. A name doesn’t define a person or display a […]
Scenes from the Weight-Conscious Life (Volume 2)
Elle says: I don’t allow myself to check Facebook at work. Well, I don’t allow myself to check Facebook on my office computer at work; that’s what smartphones are for. […]
Is It OK to Talk about Fat (and Binge Eating)? (Part 3)
Elle Says: Is it OK to talk about fat on the personal level? It’s becoming more OK to talk about fat when it’s cultural, when we’re talking about celebrities or […]
Is It OK to Talk about Fat? (Part 2)
Elle Says: To talk about fat is taboo. Sure, it’s OK to make fat jokes. (See nearly every episode of How I Met Your Mother, which all include some variation […]
Is It OK to Talk about Fat? (Part 1)
Elle Says: “Tonight on News Channel #, new studies on the rising obesity epidemic in America. Can we fight the Battle of the Bulge?” As the pompous, perfectly over-coiffed news […]
