I'm a personal trainer who used to be fat: not obese, but girl-next-door, chub-a-muffin fat. Actually, I'm still fat by personal trainer standards. I wear a size 8, which pretty much disqualifies me from gracing the cover of any fitness magazines, but I'm cool with that. I know, by now, that the

About a year ago, I went into outpatient treatment for an eating disorder. I had been trapped in the cycle of restricting, bingeing, and compulsively exercising for years, and I wanted so badly to break out of the cycle, but I was terrified of gaining weight. At the time, I had no idea how much

On Tuesday, June 14th, the Food and Drug Administration approved a new, highly controversial weight loss device called AspireAssist, which functions by allowing the user to "pump and dump" about one-third of their stomach contents straight into the toilet. The device includes a tube that goes from

Karlie Kloss taught me how to walk when she was 15 and I was 18. Do you know how embarrassing that is? To be a woman grown — the owner of a high school diploma! — and have a girl three years your junior teach you how to walk?The answer: not at all embarrassing. Are you kidding? It's real neat. I

The day I turned 29, I made a vow to myself to lose 70 pounds by the time I turned 30, hoping to drop from 190 pounds on my 5'3 frame down to 120.The fatness of my body was very much tied to my psychological well-being. When I was a senior in high school, I went on the Zone Diet and got down to 128