Shift Buzz Dara-Lynn Weiss's first-person essay about putting her daughter on a diet has already won her a book deal — along with unrelenting backlash. But the publisher won't comment on the outrage, and neither will Vogue, a spokeswoman confirmed to BuzzFeed Shift today.
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Cut the cake! Both men and women are likely to pack on a few extra pounds after they get married. That modest figure is an average—it also includes married folks who gain or lose a significant amount of weight upon tying the knot. However, weight gain after marriage affects men and women much differently.
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Lisa Lillien (also known as Hungry Girl) sends‚ out an e-mail newsletter to almost a million subscribers, offering a sweet moment of pleasure in the daily slog of dieting.
Admittedly, I'm obsessed with totally bonkers diet guru-turned-video blogger Susan Powter, but this video of her praising the joys of an organic pear while essentially giving it some crazy mouth love brings me an unhealthy amount of glee. Looks like she traded “stopping the insanity” for “embracing lots and lots of insanity” (to our sheer delight, of course).
Food Buzz A study has shown that slimmers who take photographs of their meals stick more carefully to their diet than others. I guess it makes sense that staring at a photo of the five-piece Popeyes meal you had for lunch might guilt you into eating better the next day.