Links

These are sites that I love. Continuously updated.

Want to swap links? Shoot me an email emmie [at] skinnyemmie.com

Weight Loss or Fitness Related:

• Emily’s Inner Skinny: Check out Emily (not me, another one!) and her new blog. “I’m a 26yr old new mom, engaged, starting her first REAL important job (on Monday!) and battling a 13 year battle of being obese. Okay, morbidly obese is probably more accurate. I’m 5ft6 and weigh an astonishing 269lbs. I’m not sure how life brought me here, all I know that being this way has been pretty much my entire life up until now.”
• Fat Bridesmaid: FB is a very funny gal who lives just north of me in Cincinnati. She is on a health mission also, just got her gallbladder taken out and will soon be moving into her first place. Check her out.
• The Fat Girl’s Guide to Living: The Fat Girl’s Guide to Living (FGG) is a lifestyle blog for and by overweight women who are tired of missing out onreally living because of internal and external pressures about being fat, and their own perceptions of themselves.
• F*ck You Cookie: As if you didn’t already want to visit the site because of the name, visit it because the blogger is Chris Pugh, a No.Cal guy who offers a rare glimpse into the male struggles of losing weight. Venus or Mars, we all struggle with the same things.
• Two Pounds a Week: Meg’s blog: “I am a 28-year-old, happily married woman working my way to losing 25 pounds. I love my family and friends, who are a huge support system to me. My husband and I have three “kids,” our crazy dog, Tex, and two cats, Gracie and Piper, who keep me moving. I love my life, and I am determined to meet my goals!”
• Jen is Zen: Another BlogapaLOSEa buddy! “This is a blog about my fitness and eventual weight loss.  Today is May 12, 2009.  I weigh 235.6 pounds.  I’m 5′8″.  I can’t remember the last time I worked out.  I’ve always wanted to be a runner.  I quit smoking on May 1, 2009.  I stopped eating meat, drinking caffeine, and cut out major sources of dairy that day as well.  That day kind of sucked. I want to be healthy and, who are we kidding?, HOT.  I’m 30 years old and it’s time I get my act together.”
• Losing Lynne: Lynne has lost 90 pounds so far and is still rocking to the finish.
• questions for dessert: Not only is Krissie a great, inspirational blogger who is kicking ass on her journey, she is also local to me and someone I am proud to consider a friend. She’s one of the first blogs I visit every time I open my feed reader.
• Skrinking Mama: Melissa is a woman on a mission to lose 150 pounds. Check out her journey!
• Who Ate My Blog: Stephen is a young man who once weighed 632 pounds. Follow this Alabama guy’s journey as he works towards losing weight.

Plus Size Community:

• Fat Rant | Joy Nash: Love her. I have 3 of her videos on the “About” page of my site. I’m striving for her attitude.
• The Fat Experience Project: Really interesting. I want to submit a story.

Plus Size Fashion (because we all want to look good!):

• The Curvy Fashionista/Marie Denee: If you want the top blogger on plus size fashion and spot-on trends, this is your spot! Her motto is to Keep it Curvy.Confident.Chic. (love it!) Also, Marie Denee is the newest hot spot for designer plus size fashions. Definitely need to bookmark these pages!
• Pretty Pear: I love Colleen’s blog: “The Pretty Pear is a plus size lifestyle blog. This means that in addition to talking about clothes, I write about everything that goes along with being a plus size woman. I believe that women of size are beautiful and deserve beautiful clothing, shoes, and accessories just as much as average sized women.”
• StyleIT: Where the fashion nerd meets the pop culture obsessed. Style IT has revamped itself around content the author can’t live without. Each post is organically written, with passion, enthusiasm and the knowledge that the author has a personal experience relating to each subject. If she doesn’t like it, she won’t write about it.
• SKORCH Magazine: I’m a blogger and columnist for SKORCH, so of course I love it! SKORCH is a magazine for trendy and fashionable women sizes 12+ who crave a magazine that looks and feels like every other fashion magazine, but also offers fashion commentary and advice for a plus-size woman. SKORCH is for plus-size women who want trendy plus-size fashion, beauty tips, celeb style in plus-size, and in-depth interviews.
• Vanessa Reese: Vanessa is a professional plus size model and currently is the primary fit model for fashion line ASOS Curve. Check her out!

Friends:

• One Nerve Left: Lizz has been perfecting the Art of Imperfection (<- her description, not mine!) for about a decade now. Her unwitting subjects include 3 kids, a husband and 2 dogs. Experiments are known as child-rearing, marriage, housekeeping, organizing and culinary arts.
• The Diary of Curvy Jones: “This blog is all about the life of a Single Gal in The A. I work, I shop, I play, I live. I have a perspective that’s unique because it’s mine. I have some funny ways of thinking about things and some unpopular views on subjects.   I created this space and time to share my own thoughts and feelings, however unpopular they may be. I’ll respect your viewpoints if you respect mine.”
• CopyNoll: Christina is a creative writer, avid reader, excessive talker, bourbon drinker, lucky wife and delighted mother of three.