Snicklefritz Chronicles

Category: Body Positivity

  • Weigh Down Before There Was Weigh Down

    Weigh Down Before There Was Weigh Down

    In retrospect, it really isn’t surprising that I fell for Gwen Shamblin’s Weigh Down Workshop diet. In my family of origin, thinness was next to godliness. The only thing my mother wanted to see more than a thin kid walking in the door of the church on Sunday morning was a kid who outperformed the…

  • Twenty-three and Me

    My partner knows of my love for studying history and culture and looking into my family lineage, so for Christmas he bought me a 23andMe membership. I was already fairly certain of the geographical roots of my ancestors and had only one small surprise. What I wasn’t prepared for were some of the physical and…

  • Beaches Bodies and Elisabeth Elliot

    Beaches Bodies and Elisabeth Elliot

    As the equatorial sun toasted their skin, they walked, not schlepped: some with canes or strollers, others with toddlers on their hips or lovers on their arms.