“Weightless…a blog about body image, the skinny fad and freedom from numbers”

Weightless is about well-being, not weight; about fostering body image, regardless of your size. It’s about exposing women’s magazines, other mediums and so-called experts when they’re touting unhealthy tips and promoting restrictive standards.

The goal of Weightless is to help women develop a better body image and work toward accepting themselves as they are, while being healthy and happy (fad diets and skinny-mini standards prohibited!); and to become informed consumers, who can pick apart a commercial or magazine article and know which advice is helpful or harmful.

Some of the features you’ll find:

• Body Image Boosters. Having a healthy body image doesn’t just affect your feelings about your looks, it affects your overall well-being. Research has shown that high levels of body dissatisfaction are connected to low self-esteem, depression, anxiety, unhealthy habits and eating disorders. Every Monday, you’ll find a tip that helps you boost your body image – and self-image overall.

• Interviews. Weightless features Q&As with a variety of experts, including clinical psychologists, authors and bloggers, on everything from intuitive eating and health at every size to ditching the diet mentality and healthy coping skills. Plus, you’ll find interviews with amazing women who’ve recovered from eating disorders, negative body image, binge eating and other kinds of disordered eating. If you’d like to share your story of recovery, please email me at mtartakovsky@gmail.com. Thank you!

• Minding the Magazines. How often have you picked up a women’s magazine, and after flipping through the pages, felt like you had to be on a diet and exercise every day of the week? Though women’s magazines feature many positive pieces, we regularly get a skewed look at what’s attractive and a stringent view on food and fitness. These posts will point out when magazines dish out bad advice on dieting, exercise and “healthy” habits.

Top 15 Popular Posts

If you’d like to browse Weightless some more, check out our top 15 posts:

1. 7 Signs Your Body Image Is Bruised (and 5 Solutions)
2. When Your Self-Worth Is Wrapped Around Your Weight (and 7 Ways to Unwrap It)
3. 20 Inspiring Ways to Boost Your Body Image
4. 12 Ways to Become Proud of Your Body
5. Body Image/Eating Disorder Myths From the Blogosphere
6. 15 Body Image Boosters From the Blogosphere
7. Why It’s Time to Change Our Thinking About Weight: Q&A with Linda Bacon
8. The Voice of An Eating Disorder And 7 Ways to Shut It Up
9. Eating Disorder Recovery: Q&A with Therese Borchard
10. Feeling Fat? 3 Tips that May Help
11. Are You Shackled to Your Scale?
12. Minding Women’s Magazines: Asinine Advice
13. NEDA Week: It’s Time to Talk About Eating Disorder Myths and Facts
14. Building a Better Body Image with a Daily Dose of Inspiration
15. Body Image & The Diet Mentality: Letting Go of Shame