It beckons me from across the room. “Come to me now! No excuses. Get naked if you must, but it won't really matter. Just come.” I don't want to. I hate weighing myself. I hate my scale. My ...

I recently found myself lamenting to a friend about how all of my jeans were too tight. “I really just need to lose like 10 or 15 pounds,” I told her, half expecting her to respond with what many ...

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Research suggests that as much as 80% of women struggle with poor body image, and 70% of women who are at healthy weights want to be thinner. Body image trouble can lead to a host of other ...

For a long time, I have not been able to let go of the scale. And even as I walked it down the street to the garbage bin on the corner (I needed to have it far enough away from my apartment that I ...

I didn’t wake up one morning wanting to be a scale evangelist, honest. The urge grew gradually. But now, as America’s kitchens fill with useless gadgets -- mango slicers, slider molds, cherry pitters, ...

When I began working as the editorial assistant at Cosmopolitan.com the day after I graduated college two years ago, I invested every ounce of energy into my dream job, hustling to prove myself in the ...

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I stepped on my bathroom scale the other morning and could not believe the three digits staring up at me. And I mean that literally — the scale was rigged. I know this because I’ve been dieting my ...