You really can’t help but be overwhelmed by the amount of focus these days on how a person looks. The people who are most harmed by this shallowness are women, especially young adults, as so many of their role models are “perfect and thin.” How can you have a healthy body image when the media constantly bombards us with messages telling us that the only good body image is a thin one?
So it is with great pleasure to bring you a new blog about just this very topic — body image, the skinny fad and learning how to attain freedom from the (weight) numbers and dieting. The blog is called Weightless:
As our new blogger, Margarita Tartakovsky, wrote in her introduction to her blog, “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 sharp consumers, who can pick apart a commercial or magazine article and know which advice is helpful or harmful.”
Our Weightless blogger (who, I assure you, actually does weigh something) is a long-time writer for Psych Central, Margarita Tartakovsky. Her writing career began unofficially in second grade when she composed her first-ever essay on Cinderella (her mom still has it), several months after emigrating from Russia. Officially, Margarita began freelancing after graduating with an MS in clinical psychology from Texas A&M University.
This is going to be a great blog and I encourage you check it out if you have any interest in the topic of self-image, body image, and how to unshackle yourself from yo-yo dieting and being a slave to your scale.
Weightless: A Blog About Body Image
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“Introducing Weightless: A Blog About Body Image”
And what does it say about psychology that I read the title of the column as weightLOSS…
I have been heavy; I have been too thin(anorexic); Now I am heavy again due to medications I am on and pain that prevents me from working out. I see over and over thin actors, models etc- no size 14 there! I love to watch Cameron Manhiem on ghost whisperer- she isn’t afraid of her weight, just does what she needs to do. Can we see more of this from hollywood???
I have been overweight for as long as I can remember, however I have NOT always been heavy. I see pictures of myself when I was a young child and I say “No way I couldn’t have been that tiny!!” My parents say I always used to be on the run, they used to call me drive-thru eater, not for the reason you might think, but it was because they would call me in for supper, forcefully sit me down…MAKE me eat, then after a couple bites I’d be right back out the door! I hear these stories of my active happy childhood, of when I was even in dance and gymnastics, and I almost cry. Why didn’t I stick to that stuff?? I would have so much better off. I look around at the girls in my school at how fit and thin most of them are, the clothes they wear (that I LOVE but can’t fit into them) and I can’t stand how upset I feel sometimes. But you can’t focus on the past right??? I’m turning my life around and I’m gonna lose this horrible weight before I’m 20.
Bobbi J- I TOTALLY agree!!! We NEED more famous people who aren’t afraid of their weight!! More for the younger ones who seem to worship famous people.
BTW, I hope you figure out how to be your happy weight, that sounds like a really hard time your going through. Wishing you luck! 
Kajikit- You know i saw the EXACT same thing at first. It does make you think a bit eh?
Terrific! One more much-needed voice in the pro-body image arena. Love the title.
Gosh, I love the idea of this blog! Yes, less focus on photo-shopped, stick-thin rockstars and more focus on the rich of character. If the preteens and young adults, like me, stopped worrying about their weight and started worrying about their gades, America would be a top-scoring nation, no doubt about it.
Congrats! This will help so many people. t
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