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Good news for da ladeeeeeez. Turns out that topping off your breakfast with a chocolatey dessert could be the key to losing (and keeping off) weight. Those are your priorities, right? Staying skinny and eating chocolate? Isn't that what's engraved on the Susan B. Anthony dollar? More »
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Frozen diet meals cater to that particular — and vast — demographic of people who are at once lazy and calorie-conscious. Like some of us here. Despite common sense, we believe that we're popping a healthy and satisfying dinner in the microwave; the box show us so! That dinner looks so delicious, so fresh, doesn't it? In reality, however, it's all just a big pile of soft wet stuff that, with any luck, is at least made with "convincing" ingredients — like when the fake cheese actually tastes like real cheese. See, we're buying into the fantasy of a suitable dinner. Sound familiar? It should, because these frozen dinners are marketed to ladies like pretty much everything else: fantasy eyelashes, fantasy skin, fantasy fashion...fantasy dinners. Herewith, the reality of what eating three weeks worth of Smart Ones and Lean Cuisines actually looks like. More »
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Onetime Playboy Playmate Holly Madison is now the spokesmodel for the "rapid weight-loss beauty pill" NV, proclaiming in the latest issues of OK! that she dropped a jean size in a week with the help of the diet supplement. She's been in the public eye since 2001 when she became one of Hugh Hefner's girlfriends, and in the past decade she's modeled naked for Playboy and PETA; starred in a workout video, a topless burlesque show in Las Vegas, not to mention two reality shows in which she regularly wore bikinis and Playboy Bunny costumes. We've seen every inch of her body on a regular basis over the last 10 years. This whole "got my body back" bullshit has gone too far. More »
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As every late night infomercial for electrodes that give you sexy abs tells you: dieting is terrible. No one likes dieting. In fact, it seems the only people who like dieting are involved in the dieting industry, and they stand to profit immensely from people's desire to be lose weight. To make matters worse, research keeps showing us that bodies work as hard as they can against diets, making them even more difficult to master. In that spirit, here are 5 new, awful ways to grow cranky and demoralized this year without losing weight. More »
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In his new book, Gay Men Don't Get Fat (a play on Mireille Guiliano's controversial French Women Don't Get Fat) Simon Doonan gives irreverent lifestyle and dieting tips for straight women from the point of view of the all-knowing homosexual male. In an interview with the New York Post, he lists some of these pointers-"gay food" involves lettuce and macaroons, while the "straightest food" is a beef burrito-with perhaps the best one being this: More »
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In the year 2012, Americans will likely spend more than sixty billion dollars on diets.  95% of those diets will result in people being as heavy or heavier than they started, with the medical dangers involved with weight cycling, and having taken the self-esteem hit of trying and failing at a diet. More »
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Is training for the Victoria's Secret runway show actually just like training for a marathon? Well, no, it's not, but the show's stylist sure seems to think it is. More »
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Until very recently, Donna Simpson — the Guinness World Record holder for "World's Heaviest Mother" — made $90,000 a year from her members-only website, where fans paid $20 a month to look at pictures of her half-dressed and watch her eat. But now, Donna has broken up with her fiancé of five years. And she's decided that she needs to lose weight. More »
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But don't be too depressed: only 1% would be willing to trade 21 years or more. Gee. More »
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Meet the Dukan Diet: the French-born, Gisele-approved, Middleton-employed meal plan that is suddenly is ubiquitous. Put down your fat-free Activias, ladies, and listen up. More »
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A trendy new doctor-prescribed diet makes use of pregnant women's pee. The daily injections of the hormone hCG (which is what makes that blue line appear on home pregnancy tests) combined with a 500-calorie-a-day diet is said to make women—who are paying upwards of $1000 for monthly consultations—lose weight rapidly. It's probably obvious to anyone with a modicum of reading comprehension and a minimal understanding of nutrition that, hCG aside, consuming only 500 calories would constitute as a crash diet and is bound to make anyone lose weight rapidly. To put it in a really rudimentary perspective, 500 calories is only five of those 100 calorie snack packs—I can easily do that in a sitting. The hCG (which is derived from pregnant women's urine) supposedly makes it so that women on this diet don't feel hungry while they are starving themselves. Additionally, hCG supposedly metabolizes fat that has been stored where it's least want it: upper arms, bellies and thighs. So it's magical? More »
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Low-fat diets are dead, at least according to one writer. The problem: we've been hearing this for at least ten years, and they still haven't actually died. More »
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What is the challenge, exactly? More »
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Ginnifer Goodwin is "shocked" at reactions to her tales of her 9-year-old self on Weight Watchers. Because, she explains, she only meant to boost the program, not tell a tale of childhood deprivation. More »
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For its special on "Celebrity Weight Loss" last night, Primetime interviewed Kendra Wilkinson and Bethenny Frankel (who showed off their post-baby bodies in tabloids this year). Unsurprisingly, there were a lot of mixed messages about health and body image. More »
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You know what's sad about the fact that Ginnifer Goodwin's been on Weight Watchers since she was 9? Okay, a lot of things, but most recently… that it's being touted as her "diet secret." More »
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In our Daddy Issues series, a father of a young daughter seeks guidance, hoping to raise a strong woman. He looks to our readers for insight. More »
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Childhood obesity: not good. Putting perfectly healthy babies on diets so they don't get fat? Not the solution. But tell that to a whole passel of weight-obsessed parents. More »
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The wrestling progeny has a "grueling" exercise regime, overseen by The Hulk. "I love my body," she says. "Thick or not, I'm firm. I don't have cellulite. I'm happy with how I am." Even if it's only for the industry. More »
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CafePress is a business that allows pretty much anyone to slap something stupid on a coffee mug and sell it. They also have strategic partnerships, it would seem, allowing for the promotion of a brand. Like Bethenny Frankel's SkinnyGirl. More »
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Amitai Etzioni is not a doctor. He's a a sociologist and professor of international relations at George Washington University, the author several books, and used to teach at Columbia and Harvard. But he has some pretty interesting opinions about dieting. More »
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The babyfood diet. The cabbage soup diet. The Atkins diet. And yet, hard as it is to believe, in the past we've done even worse to be thin. More »
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Miss USA recently spent a week cataloging everything she ate for Grub Street. We thought it might be interesting to look at this — so what did the most beautiful girl in the nation consume? More »
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• According to a recent UK study, women who are "agreeable" are more likely to have children at a young age than those who are "open-minded." Open-minded women tended to choose education over babies, and "risk going through life childless."

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Memorial Day is right around the corner, and folks are selecting beach/plane/train reading. The editors at the celebrity weeklies seem to think we want loads of ladies in bikinis and detailed diet tips. Here's the problem: More »
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Or at least, "strenuous exercise and canary-bird diets" are! You're susceptible to sore throats! And striking poses on scales! And earning the scorn of your maid! And then you'll need...Listerine? [Vintage_Ads] More »
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The Chicago Tribune, of all media outlets, has some tips on pre-prom dieting, such as "don't obsess over numbers on the scale." Easy enough, coming from an article called "How to Lose 10 Lbs Before Prom." [Chicago Tribune] More »
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The NY Times notes, "Fear of shame and embarrassment...is the bigger deterrent to excess eating." That's certainly what the Skinny Bitch franchise is banking on. Well, that and "abuse." [NYT] More »
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"Like every new mom, it takes time, it takes time, to get back in shape and be yourself again," Gillibrand told the New York Daily News. And then she Revealed Her Diet Secrets! More »
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What is E! correspondent Giuliana Rancic's damage? She was manic on the red carpet, complimenting nearly every (thin) female celebrity's body, and compulsively asking about diets. Thankfully, Mad Men's Christina Hendricks commented on the "wackiness" of those who don't eat. More »
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Um, if we had, we'd probably have gone with "being children." But apparently, it's Spanx. [FitSugar] More »
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A recent study compared the effectiveness of an Atkins-type diet and a plan that did not restrict carbs. While there was no significant difference in weight loss, the carb-eaters were happier and less hostile. As we've long suspected: Carbs=Love. [Reuters] More »
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Could you live off of six cookies a day, plus a small meal? The newest diet trend asks you to do just that, earning both accolades from celebrities and a batch of imitators. But does it work? More »
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We knew standards of beauty had shifted, but...really? [Vintage_Ads] More »
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Writes René L. Todd in Self, "I've always taken a certain comfort in having a mom who is not thin. Unlike my friend Kelly and her tiny-skinny mother...my mom and I were never in competition with each other." Until! More »
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41% of women who snack say the recession has affected their eating habits: some snack more healthfully, others snack less. (And if you say "snack" enough times, it's funny.) [Washington Post] More »
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Do guys want to be "skinny bastards?" More »
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The new issue of Women's Health promises to explain how to "drop two sizes in just two weeks," but in addition to that being nearly impossible, it's not what the accompanying article is about. More »
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If there's one thing more entertaining than women slavishly trying to act Parisian, it's the ridiculous "You suck, Frenchwomen!" backlash. Cause, you know, those are the only options. [Left: That's a typical Frenchwoman, rubes.] More »
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Today someone writes into the Philadelphia Inquirer's advice column, "Ask Amy," to ask how to deal with her hostess's tasteless fat-free cooking. Amy says suck it up. We respectfully disagree. More »
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