Think back about …

Diets

Remember when summer was "bikini season" and everyone seemed to be on a diet? Think back ... to Slimfast and Metrecal, Weight Watchers and Jenny Craig, Atkins and Paleo. Did you diet? Why? Were you successful? How did you feel about dieting? Did you take dangerous diet meds like amphetamines or fen-phen? Did you ever develop an eating disorder or know others who did? How do you eat now? Share your diet stories forward.

Stories on This Week's Writing Prompt

Readers’ Choice

Fit For Life
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Truth be told, I was always slender, but my weight varied by a few pounds in college. Then, along with my friends, I’d [...]

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Weddings

one’s not half two, it’s two are halves of one
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I woke up that morning thinking: today I will glow. I always heard that brides get this special glow  you can’t fake or [...]
My Special, Special Day
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Princess Di, I can relate.

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Time in a Bottle
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I first saw this photo after my mother died. My oldest sister, who is the repository of all the family photos that my parents [...]
Prompted By Vintage Photos
Required Reading for Living on Earth
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Our differences are what we share -- the fact that we are different, all of us from one another, is how we are the same.
Prompted By What We Read

Think back about …

Diets

Remember when summer was "bikini season" and everyone seemed to be on a diet? Think back ... to Slimfast and Metrecal, Weight Watchers and Jenny Craig, Atkins and Paleo. Did you diet? Why? Were you successful? How did you feel about dieting? Did you take dangerous diet meds like amphetamines or fen-phen? Did you ever develop an eating disorder or know others who did? How do you eat now? Share your diet stories forward.

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