Amen to that!

Happy New Year to you too.

I love this blog.

Why is looking fat such a good thing? It’s unhealthy. These love yourself posts are so patronising. There is NOTHING good about being fat, it’s BAD for you.

1) Being healthy does not mean being a size 2

2) No one said being fat was healthy.

3) Since when is it healthy to obsess about your weight?

4) If you want to spread your hate message, spread it somewhere else. You can talk all that “fat,fat,fat” blah blah on the million other blogs out there.

Stop buying into what the media tells you. There’s nothing wrong with loving yourself AS YOU ARE. Go get lipo, a nose job, a face lift, and mesotherapy if you want but that’s not what this blog is about.

Get off the hate hype, it’s getting old.

I agree with Gina’s reply. Not everyone has the same natural body size. People range from thin to fat, whatever they eat. And o.k., while being fat sometimes is unhealthy (depending on the cause and circumstances), I tend to think I know a lot of unhealthy thin people, too.

I’m a very healthy person - I do extremely physical work, and I’ve also been a vegan for 3 years. I still have hella curves, and unless somehow I went on a starvation diet, there’s no way I’d lose that comfortable other ~30 pounds that stick around my hips and thighs. If at this point in my life I paid any attention to women’s magazines, t.v. shows or whatnot else, you know, I could feel bad about myself, I guess. But the thing is, I’m fulla muscles and energy, and that’s what I feel GOOD about.

On the off chance you find it personally necessary to lose weight, why not try a more active job like landscaping or working in the trades? As opposed to constantly struggling with crappy diets that don’t work and make you feel bad for failing at them? (In other words, why have to worry about counting ‘calories’ all day long to balance a sedentary lifestyle at the office and at home, when an active job burns all the calories you could eat in the day?) I mean, o.k., I know that physical work is not for everyone … but on the other hand I personally love it! Good heart rate, low stress levels, endorphin release all day long …

Just a thought.

I think instead of having ‘lose weight’ on the list of New Years resolutions, it would be much better to have ‘be healthy’. It doesn’t mean obsess about eating vegetables and exercising, it means to take care of your body as much as you can (and everyone is much more capable of doing better for themselves than they already do). The more you take care of yourself, the more positive results you will see. There is no way striving to be tiny should be on anyone’s list, if you are naturally tiny and healthy that’s good, but we are all built differently. Loving yourself means looking after yourself (which people seem to assume means to go intense - it doesn’t) and not just the outside. It also means accepting yourself and your flaws (I know everyone has them!) - it’s a cliche, but I think the most important is liking yourself to be honest.

Sorry to break it to you, but counting calories/fat grams/carbs is a staple of a healthy lifestyle. Even if you don’t keep the exact numbers in your head, you still have to keep good records of what you put in your mouth. Chowing away with reckless abandon on all the foods you *want* instead of *need* is NOT a smart thing to do. It doesn’t matter if you hate vegetables. I don’t care if you feel “entitled” to your daily dose of chocolate. Disciplined people stop whining about their health and their bodies and actually DO something about it–you have more control over these things than anything else in your life.

You can give yourself a pat on the back to feel better, or you can change the way you look at food and exercise and actually BE better. This isn’t even about body image–its about allowing your body to reach its full potential as an efficient machine. I’d rather not let something as silly as bad food and apathy from holding me back.

Julie’s point was that if you have a more active lifestyle you won’t have to constantly count calories because you know you are burning it off. No where did she say it’s ok to chow down daily on hot sundaes because you are exercising.

I love it how some people have such a hard time believing that it’s ok to love yourself as you are. They have to try to justify it. You are wrong for wanting to maintain self esteem despite magazine after magazine, commercial after commercial telling you that you aren’t good enough. How dare you think otherwise!

This post wasn’t just for curvy divas. It was for everyone. Especially the size 2 ladies who will try fad diet after fad diet to get to a size 0.

How do you justify that? Oh yea…it’s healthy right?

(I think Kate missed the part where I said I’m vegan, otherwise maybe she wouldn’t have concluded that I ‘hate vegetables’ or am ‘undisciplined’ for not counting calories … haha!)

Also it is a common thing to blame fat people for being ‘undisciplined’ ~ instead of perhaps blaming the food industries for selling us patently unhealthy food, devoid of minerals and vitamins, but full of sugars and fat. It is indeed an everyday choice to decide what to eat … but it is difficult to avoid the allure of such foods when we are bombarded with them everywhere. People in the ad industries have an insidious knowledge of human psychology and lever it against consumers constantly. Nonetheless - the more we can keep away from these foods, the better. Organic vegetables are indeed delicious!

And I would like to amend part of what I said - indeed it’s not about ‘losing weight’ - that was a slip-up on my part. As Kelly said, it should be about BEING HEALTHY. Which indeed I am, all curves included! Perhaps - look to gain muscle and tone, not to lose weight. To be able to walk on the beach without getting too tired, or lift weights at the gym, or you know, whatever makes you happy & gets your blood moving! And that has nothing to do with body sizes or feeling bad about yourself - but has to do with enjoying the moment and the movement of your body.

Thanks Gina C. for your advocacy.