Elizabeth Patch's More to Love Blog http://elizabethpatch.com Art & Inspiration for All Sizes! Sun, 06 May 2012 23:05:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Makes Children and Adults as Fat as Pigs! http://elizabethpatch.com/2012/05/makes-children-and-adults-as-fat-as-pigs.html http://elizabethpatch.com/2012/05/makes-children-and-adults-as-fat-as-pigs.html#comments Sun, 06 May 2012 21:23:19 +0000 elizabeth patch http://elizabethpatch.com/?p=6844 Groves Tasteless Chill Tonic, on the market for over 20 years, brags that it sold “1 1/2 million bottles last year.”

“Last year” was 1879.

I found this image in a book “Advertising in America, the First 200 Years” published in 1990 by Harry N. Abrams, Inc.

The book states that this image is “typical patent

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It sounded like an easy weekend task to clean out my over-stuffed closet, jammed full of things I rarely wear. A “style” magazine suggested setting aside a day and trying on all of your clothes. As you try them on, just make 2 piles based on your gut reaction: 1. love

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© elizabeth patch, all rights reserved

How many times have you had (or overheard) this conversation: “I hate my hips, my boobs, my thighs, my butt” ? I’ve lost count… May women (regardless of size) fight an almost daily battle to learn to live in our bodies with confidence and positive attitude.

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The seeds of change I plant today become the garden of my dreams.

No, I’m not just speaking of plants… Whether it’s achieving a long term goal or carrying on with a long term project, tiny seeds sometimes take a very long time to flower and bear fruit.

The big dreams in anyone’s garden take time. A beautiful

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Healthy Attitude

Lose weight? Maybe. Maybe Not.

I exercise for strength, for health, for  fun, for me!

© elizabeth patch, from More to Love

Do you think of exercise only for the purpose of weight loss?

Is the joy of walking through a park in springtime measured by how many calories you burn?

Does the feeling of power you get when

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Nobody is scolded or shamed for not being able to twist or stretch into the “ideal” posture. Each person is encouraged to either move

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The Health At Every Size® (HAESSM) approach is an alternative to the weight/size-based paradigm upon which much current public

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So I thought I would have some “girly down time” with a glass of wine and a fashion magazine. But as I flipped through

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It can be very inspiring to admire and emulate those who are the best in their fields: athletes, artists, masters of anything from cooking to dancing to fashion design. But it can also be very disheartening: No matter how much I try, or how how I work at it I’ll never be as good as  (name

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