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.

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?

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.

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.

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 love this blog.