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(Congratulations!) You’ve been selected

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Here’s a fun story: someone somewhere recently mentioned that Fitness magazine was doing one of those “best blog ever!” award things (you know the ones I mean, where they–or someone–nominate the same blogs over and over again and drive traffic to their website by getting people to vote on their favorites) that it seems like …

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Living by the Numbers

Last week, while still in the grips of a very bad few days, I did something I hadn’t done for about two years: I pulled out the scale and weighed myself. I don’t know why I did it. I knew at the time that it was a bad idea, and I hadn’t had too much …

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Natural Beauty is the New ‘Look’ [Embrace:Me]

Well, score one for all of us who have been hoping that the unrealistic standards of beauty our society obsesses over would go the way of the buffalo. It turns out that natural beauty is the big new thing! Has a new day dawned? Are we witnessing the beginning of the end of feeling bad …

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Embrace: Responding

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For a long time, my mom and I have had this joke about a website we want to create. It would be called Doctor Commonsense, and would consist of really straightforward “problems” that the good doctor would solve. An example: “Hungry? Try eating something! You’ll be surprised at how well it works!” I’m not sure …

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Embrace:Reality

Several days ago, I promised a post about H&M’s rather controversial choice to display clothing on virtual mannequins, rather than actual models, on its website. And here I am, delivering. I’m delivery a few days late, sure, but I’m delivery nonetheless. The story was broken by Jezebel about a week ago, and since that time …

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