Gained Some Holiday Weight? Good. That’s What He Wants
’Tis the season for peace, joy and weight gain. After Christmas and New Year’s, we will all jiggle a bit more. Women will feel like kicking themselves for their weight gain and will suffer from...
View ArticleJimmy Kimmel Says Forget The Tapeworm, He’s Got The Diet Plan For You
A few weeks back, Jimmy Kimmel—and Jessica Alba, Minka Kelly, Jessica Biel, Sofia Vergara, Lindsay Lohan, and Eva Longoria—introduced us to Hottie Body Humpilates. Now Anna Faris, Amanda Seyfried,...
View ArticleLady Gaga Strictly Follows The Drunk Diet
“I am on the drunk diet. I live my life as I want to, creatively. I like to drink whiskey and stuff while I am working. But the deal is I’ve got to work out every day, and I work out hung over if I am...
View ArticleGirl Talk: Dressing Vs. Dieting
Every winter, I pack on about 15 pounds. I live in Minneapolis, which means that my city may be blanketed in snow from early-November through mid-May, and all that dark, oppressive, endlessly cold...
View ArticleNot A Pretty Picture: When Celeb Diet Spokespeople Gain The Weight Back
Weight loss programs will use all kinds of tricks and techniques to entice you to buy in — from discounts and free food to real life testimonials. Lately, the weight loss market has been flooded with a...
View ArticleMila Kunis Says You Can Lose Weight — If You Want To
“I don’t think I ever fully realized what a human body is capable of doing. But I think I was also, in a beautiful way, incredibly naive. I believed that I could do anything. I never for one moment...
View Article“Maggie Goes On A Diet,” Children’s Diet Book, Criticized For Hurting Body Image
Add this to your fall reading list (or book burning pile): Maggie Goes On A Diet, a children’s book for elementary schoolers, about an obese 14-year-old girl named Maggie who loses weight and becomes...
View ArticleGirl Talk: Why I Don’t Diet
When I was in sixth grade, my boyfriend told me he didn’t care that I was fat. He loved me anyway, just as I was. It was something along the lines of, “Tom and all those guys say you’re really big, but...
View ArticleThe Real Reason Why Women Go On Cleanses
What motivates women to do a juice cleanse? Is it that the people who tout its benefits are all glowy and impossibly attractive? Is it that cleansing is a productive way to “detox”? Or is it that you...
View Article6 Diet Fads For People Who Will Try Anything Except Exercise
In a landscape littered with unscientific and downright stupid weight loss products, it takes something extra stupid to get our attention. Fortunately, weight loss is a big business, and some of the...
View Article8 Reasons You Shouldn’t Go On A Diet
It’s spring! The trees are blossoming! All six of them! Or maybe that’s just on my block. The several tufts of grass are violently green. I suddenly want to buy at least two pairs of gladiator sandals....
View ArticleLearning The Hard Way: Woman Dies After Attempting To Live On “Sunlight Diet”
A Swiss newspaper reports a 50-something woman starved to death in January 2012 after forgoing food and water for a “sunlight diet.” But “breathearianism,” as the practice is called, isn’t a diet with...
View ArticleThe “Moonlight Sonata” Diet
Another day, another creative way to lose weight. Discovered on Facebook, the “Moonlight Sonata” Diet is easy. You can eat whatever you want, but you have to be standing in front of a mirror, watching...
View Article8 Dumbest Extreme Weight Loss Methods
Losing weight isn’t easy. I mean, it’s easy to SAY you’ll “eat less and exercise” but what do you eat? Which exercises do you do? Are there any shortcuts? If not, are there at least any LONGcuts, that...
View Article“Weight Loss” Perfume Sounds Just About As Legitimate As Any “Weight Loss”...
There is no shortage of bizarre products and tools claiming mystical weight loss properties that will have you dropping pounds as if the basic rites of diet and exercise never existed. My personal...
View Article13 Celebs Who’ve Dropped Serious Pounds For Roles
Looks like Matthew McConaughey is the latest in a long line of celebs to drop a pretty shocking amount of weight for a role. In recent days McConaughey has been spotted around Austin looking downright...
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Kelly Osbourne Is On The Plate Diet
Hark! Please stop what you’re doing and pay attention to this important celebrity diet news! An anonymous source told Now magazine that Kelly Osbourne is staying thin by eating food that is a different...
View ArticleMelissa McCarthy On The Endless Quest For Perfection
“Pretty much everyone I know, no matter what size, is trying some [diet] system. Even when someone gets to looking like she should be so proud of herself, instead she’s like, ‘I could be another three...
View ArticleScience Says That Diets Are Actually Depressing, Not Just Hyperbolically
Dieting is probably my foremost hobby. It might even take precedence over my two other main interests, which are 1) lying on the sofa complaining of feeling faint like a Victorian anemic and 2) staring...
View Article“Diet Mom” Dara-Lynn Weiss Attempts To Justify Putting Her Dieting Daughter...
“I understand the desire to make a child feel beautiful at any weight. I truly advocate for size acceptance. The culture of body image upsets me and has tortured me personally. I do think we should be...
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