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"Hi, guys! I&amp;amp;#8217;ve missed you since passing the reins of the shape-up blog to Karina back in April! I&amp;amp;#8217;ve got a couple pieces of news... 1.) I&amp;amp;#8217;ve written a story for the July issue of Glamour (it&amp;amp;#8217;s out on newsstands now, starting on page 162) about my weight loss. Those of you who followed my journey witnessed so many of the ups and downs&amp;amp;#8212;remember those frozen yogurt and pizza binges? Flushing the rice down the toilet so I wouldn&amp;amp;#8217;t eat it? My first outdoor run? This piece is a culmination of all those struggles and triumphs. I&amp;amp;#8217;m proud of it, and would love to know what you think! 2.) I&amp;amp;#8217;m going to be blogging again&amp;amp;#8212;in the Vitamin G section of this website&amp;amp;#8212;about (what else?) women&amp;amp;#8217;s body image. Struggling with my weight my entire life gave me the unrealistic notion that I was the only woman alive who could possibly spend that much time (um, every minute of every day!) obsessing over my body, and that women who weren&amp;amp;#8217;t overweight didn&amp;amp;#8217;t have the same tangled relationship with the shape of their thighs and direction of their boobs. If there&amp;amp;#8217;s one thing I&amp;amp;#8217;ve learned over the past year and a half, it&amp;amp;#8217;s that body-image issues plague so many of us. Sometimes they show up in eating disorders, other times at the plastic surgeon&amp;amp;#8217;s office or in unhealthy relationships with men as a way to boost self-esteem. So we&amp;amp;#8217;re going to be talking about it all: What makes women so horribly dissatisfied with their bodies? Are we trying to hold up to standards of beauty that are completely unrealistic? And what about those women (maybe you&amp;amp;#8217;re one of them!) who claim to love all their imperfections, their jiggles, even their stretch marks? Are they lying? Or do the rest of us have something to learn from their unabashed body love? I&amp;amp;#8217;ll be sharing some of my own experiences and also talking to women on the streets of New York and asking them to let me into their minds for that drop-the-towel-in-the-locker-room-style frank talk about our bodies, head to toe! Come visit me every Wednesday on Vitamin G!"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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