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I Am a Man and I Am Fat

April 9, 2013 By Josh Magill 35 Comments

Josh Magill at the beach with one of his children

Josh Magill is fat. He’ll tell you how he got fat and how he’s battling it.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Men's Work Tagged With: fat, fatherhood, Heft on Wheels, Husband, Josh Magill, lifestyle, masculinity, Mike Magnuson, self-esteem

Is This Couple Headed for Divorce or Just Really, Really Hungry?

January 2, 2013 By xoJane 4 Comments

Weight Watchers! commercial, loaded with stereotypes, perpetuates the wife-mom, husband-baby myths.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Marriage Tagged With: autocrat wife, autocrat wives, baby-hubby, Divorce, dumb men, fat, fat husband, fat wife, gender roles in marriage, happiness and weight, happy wife happy life, I Love Lucy, I made my husband do this, incapable men, inherently irresponsible men, marriage stereotypes, men can't cook, mom-wife, my wife made me do this, myths, Obesity, overweight, slobs, Stereotypes, weight loss, Weight Watchers

The Circumcised Poet and Other Tales

October 15, 2012 By Justin Cascio 3 Comments

No matter what has been cut away, what remains is whole.

Filed Under: Body Image, Featured Content, The Good Life Tagged With: argument, body image, body modification, Boys, children, circumcision, Community, drug addiction, Faith, fat, fatherhood, Freedom, health, illness, intactivism, irritable bowel syndrome, Jewish, judaism, judgmental, manhood, medical, men, mental illness, Neighbors, neonatal circumcision, Parenthood, penis, poets, PTSD, revolution, sensitive men, short bowel syndrome

A Few of My Favourite Things

October 4, 2012 By Donald D'Haene Leave a Comment

Talk of appearances leads Donald D’Haene to discover his friends’ inner beauty.

Filed Under: Body Image, Body Modification, Ethics & Values, The Good Life Tagged With: AARP, altruism, appearances, body image, botox, caring for the poor, caring for the terminally ill, cosmetic procedures, cosmetic surgery, diet, dying, fat, getting old, homelessness, liposuction, Media, obsessions, orphans, The Sound of Music, values, Weight Watchers

Seduction of the Palate

September 18, 2012 By Keith Doyle Leave a Comment

With culinary seduction, Keith Doyle wins over lovers, neighbors, and thieves.

Filed Under: Best Meal Ever, Featured Content, The Good Life Tagged With: baking bread, best meal ever, Community, cooking, cooking for a date, cooking for kids, crepes, culinary seduction, eat local, fat, feeding kids, Food, food porn, foreplay, French paradox, fresh food, garlic, grocery shopping, health, mentoring, pasta, ritual, sex, Star Trek food, The Good Life, Wine

Suck It Up

September 3, 2012 By Greg White 2 Comments

Greg White learns the hard way after liposuction: Quick, painless solutions to long festering problems are the stuff of campaign promises, not physical reality.

Filed Under: Body Image, Featured Content, Health, Psych, & Addiction, Politics, The Good Life Tagged With: 2012, bathroom emergency, body image, california, Chris Christie, economic policy, emergency room, fat, Father's Office, foodie, funny, gastropub burgers, gluttony, GOP, hedonism, liposuction, massage, medical, pain, politics, republican, Sin, surgery, surgical recovery, The Good Life, U.S. President, U.S. presidential election, Vicodin

Why Americans Are So Fat

August 21, 2012 By Justin Cascio 20 Comments

The gluttony of food manufacturers is to blame for the obesity crisis, not individual eaters.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Lifestyle, The Good Life Tagged With: biodiversity, BMI, body image, Body Mass Index, calories, cdc, Center for Disease Control, cortisol, diet culture, diet food, dieting, Fast Food, fat, food deserts, gut flora, health, health at every size, healthy eating, hormones, lean mass, medicine, metabolism, nutrient absorption, nutrition, Obesity, paleo diet, paleolithic diet, satiation, satiety, Standard American Diet, statistics, Stress, weight loss, Western diet, what makes us fat, why are Americans so fat, willpower

Dear John: His Low Libido Is Bringing Her Down

August 17, 2012 By John Simpson, GoLocalProv.com 9 Comments

This week Dear John addresses a low libido, a son’s discovery of porn, and a self-conscious, protective partner.

Filed Under: Advice & Confessions Tagged With: acceptance, appearance, body image, children, dads, fat, high blood pressure, kids, libido, low-libido, men, orgasm, overweight, parenting, partners, physical appearance, porn, sex, sexual partners, Viagra, vibrators, weight, women

“If you wanted to demonize thin people, why were men singled out every time?”

June 14, 2012 By the Editors 20 Comments

This is a comment by Mike L on the post “I Don’t Have to Explain My Fat to You”.

Filed Under: Comment of the Day Tagged With: America, diet, FA movement, fat, fat acceptance, health, heavy, homosexuality, LGBT, medical, men, people, thin, weight, women

I Don’t Have to Explain My Fat to You

June 14, 2012 By Margitte Kristjansson 89 Comments

Margitte Kristjansson asks: Why am I not allowed to want to be fat?

Filed Under: Ethics & Values Tagged With: body acceptance, body issues, Ethics and Values, Eve Kosofksy Sedgwick, FA, fat, fat acceptance, fat admirers, fat does not equal unhealthy, fat studies, fatness, fatty, FYCB, identities, Identity Politics, justifying fatness, Kevin Smith, Riots Not Diets

Not Quite In Charge, But Working On It

June 5, 2012 By Danny 3 Comments

Danny concludes the Body Image series with a summary.

Filed Under: Body Image, Featured Content, The Good Life Tagged With: anorexia, body dysphoria, body image, Danny, Eating Disorders, facial disfigurement, fat, gay, photographs, Sin, The Good Life

Gay Men, Their Bodies, and Eating Disorders: Revisited

June 5, 2012 By Thomas Fewer 4 Comments

Thomas Fewer asked GMP readers four questions about gay culture, men, and body image. Here’s what you told him.

Filed Under: Body Image, The Good Life Tagged With: athletes, body image, bulimia, dancers, Eating Disorders, fat, gay culture, gay men, masculinity, men, perfectionism, sex, sports, survey findings, The Good Life, Thomas Fewer

On Eating Disorders and Being a Dude

May 31, 2012 By Stefan Borst-Censullo Leave a Comment

Eating disorders and negative body image are problems for men, also.

Filed Under: Body Image, The Good Life Tagged With: anorexia, Body Dysmorphic Disorder, body image, college life, Eating Disorders, fat, manorexia, men, mental illness, Stefan Borst-Censullo, The Good Life

Fat Is the New Gay

May 26, 2012 By Justin Cascio 4 Comments

Ex-gay and Christian weight loss ministries freight the body with sin.

Filed Under: Body Image, Featured Content, Historical Perspectives on Goodness, The Good Life Tagged With: body image, ex-gay ministries, Exodus, fat, First Place 4 Health, history, Justin Cascio, Lynne Gerber, Stephen Nissenbaum, Susan Stinson, Sylvester Graham, temperance movement, The Good Life, weight loss, Weight Watchers, writers

Dude Looks Like A Lady: Living With Man Boobs

May 8, 2012 By Matt Cornell 8 Comments

Matt Cornell has gynecomastia, and is tired of feeling ashamed of it.

Filed Under: Advice & Confessions Tagged With: body image, boobs, breasts, fat, Gynecomastia, health, high school, man boobs, Matt Cornell, nicknames

Large But Not Quite in Charge: 5/19

May 2, 2012 By Danny 1 Comment

Men have body issues. It’s time we talked about them.

Filed Under: The Good Life, The Good Men Project Content Calendar Tagged With: body image, Call for submissions, disability, fat, masculinity, race, The Good Life

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