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At 30, being an A-cup is something I hardly ever think about. But when I read that Denise Richards regrets getting breast enhancement surgery, I had to say something.
I've been nit-picking myself about those ten pounds for five years. I've been wanting to get back to my pre-child, pre-40s size. Well I'm done with it and this is why.
Yoga challenges us to see what's right about our bodies rather than what is wrong. It asks us to be happy with what is rather than what needs to be changed.
I was six the day my mother called me into the bedroom she shared with my stepfather. My stepfather gently pinched the flesh near my waist between his thumb and forefinger. He said, "See this?" I shouldn't be able to pinch so much here."
We act like we have a couple different bodies. There's the one you're in now, and then there's the one that's your real body.
A word to the wise -- resist the urge to "diet." Read the research: Diets don't work, they make matters worse. Modifying how you eat and maintaining the changes is fine and makes sense. That's not dieting.
Despite rising awareness among the general population and health care professionals alike, misconceptions about eating disorders, which have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness, remain pervasive.
Last year, New York Times health writer Tara Parker-Pope interviewed me about my weight loss views. This year, it was my turn to interview her about hers.
Happy New Year! That means it's time to consider your resolutions for 2012. In that tradition, I have suggestions to enhance common resolutions and make them more woman-positive.
There is no end to the enticements for us women to change our bodies to be like the stars -- or just to be other than we are. Myself included. I try not to read those articles when they pop up on Google and yet I find myself transfixed -- for hours.
It took me years -- years -- to say the word "fat." So you can imagine the complete shift in perspective it took for me to say the words "fat sex."
Before you make yet another New Year's resolution to lose weight for good, now might be a good time to ask yourself Dr. Phil's quintessential question: "How's that working for you?"
Truth of the matter is that if you exercise and eat right, the weight will come off. Take a healthy pause, focus your energies on your health and well-being, and your weight will balance out to a nice healthy place.
As a new year looms, we might consider abandoning the quest for superficial perfection -- and embrace the pursuit of humbler, but deeper good. The particular advantage of good over perfect is... We could actually get there from here.
Other women's paths to giving may be as hidden as mine. So this Christmas, I'm asking over-giving women to pause and give themselves something: a break.
