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    Dinner at Tom's, Dressing Room Depression, Makeup Mitigation, and Art Rediscovered

    I couldn't find an image of Tom Bombadil that didn't make him look like a creeper, so here's his house.

    OR, How Many Topics Will I Cram Into One Post?

    Ten miles this week, now at mile 99. Spent a lovely time at Tom Bombadil’s. Missed eating meat, though. They appear to be vegetarian. We set [...]

    Secret Diary, and, What's Your Gamer Cred?

    Dear Diary, today I lost three pounds, and punted a gnome. Happy!

    Day 1: Today weighed self. Ouch! Worse than I thought. This is the day I begin. I deserve to be healthy.

    Day 2: Walked two miles and lifted one set. Go me! Still fat, though.

    Day 10: Doing great, no weight gone yet, lifting two [...]

    Fat House

    Fat House (2003) sculpture by Erwin Wurm.

    There is a pervasive theory floating around the internet that having a messy, cluttered house is correlated with being overweight. A clean house expert, Peter Walsh, who wrote Does This Clutter Make My Butt Look Fat?: An Easy Plan for Losing Weight and Living More, appears on [...]

    The Moment of Truth

    I’ve had it, ladies. My moment of truth. It came to me not on the mountaintop, and not on the battlefield or in the pew, but in front of the full length mirror.

    My normal routine for getting dressed involves yanking my clothes out of the closet in the hallway, skittering a few steps into my [...]

    Everyone Likes a Boy with a Large...Vocabulary

    I need a new vocabulary word, please. Maybe you know it. But I am not sure the word or phrase I want exists. We may very well have to INVENT it.

    There’s no way to say that one is a big girl without it meaning overweight. There is also no way to say one is large [...]

    Soilant Green is Made Out of Avocado

    On writing retreat, I had something called an Avocado Fry—-It is succulent and unusual and beautiful in your mouth. What happens is, evil people who want your butt to jiggle take a healthsome and nutritious avocado (a thing that has pounds and pounds of the good fat ALREADY), they slice it up, roll it in [...]