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Study: Most women "disordered eaters"
Self magazine finds that 75 percent of women have an unhealthy relationship with food.
Tracy Clark-Flory [2008-04-25]

  • who doesn't have a range of sizes in their closet?

    I'm serious--especially for women, weight fluctuates within a certain degree naturally. Mine can go a full five pounds in either direction depending on the time of the month--so without doing any special exercising/dieting (other than trying to eat a more-or-less balanced diet), I've got a ten-pound range to work with. So I have jeans in three sizes, wrap dresses, drawstring skirts, etc.

    I was recently trying vainly to convince someone that my needing to wear a girdle with a specific dress doesn't mean I'm fat--it only means that this particular dress wasn't custom-tailored to my figure. (I'd need to lose five pounds to make it fit without the girdle, and even then it'd be lumpy at the middle because of the fabric/cut of the dress.) Since I'm at a healthy weight and I don't wear this particular dress very often, I'm of the opinion that the healthier thing to do would be to put on the damn girdle and forget about it.

    I didn't have much luck convincing him of the wisdom behind this. Such is the state we've come to.

    -- Leeandra Nolting
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    Friday, April 25, 2008 05:51 PM
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