Pinterest is getting on my nerves lately – it seems like people have decided that the holiday season is really the time for thinspo season. Since all the ladies are going to be mindlessly gorging themselves on eggnog and cookies and Frito pie, someone has been posting helpful weight loss tips like “punch yourself in the stomach when you’re hungry!!”. Oh, great,thanks, mentally ill people on Pinterest who need to work out their food issues with the help of a team of trained therapists, thanks for looking out for this fatty’s well being.
Just stop posting nonsense like “Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels”. What sweet, galloping bullshit. I know what this “skinny” you speak of feels like – it’s starving yourself and I’ve been there. It feels light-headed and grumpy and oddly giddy. It’s unhealthy and unsustainable. It makes you feel a tiny bit better than the people you see eating but just a tiny bit because deep in your heart you know you have to get through another day of “being strong” and choking down green tea like it’s oxygen tomorrow. And the day after that. And the day after that.
If you want to shed some weight, eat right & exercise. Starving yourself will not result in a bangin’ curvy body. You have to work for that shit. You have to change your whole attitude towards food and movement and life.
Or maybe you could just be happy with what you have. I am fat, have always been fat, will always be fat. Am I better than those people posting dangerous shit on Pinterest? Nope. I ‘m just learning to love myself and my body more than I love other people’s approval.
All morning I’ve been looking at the lovely ladies on hey, fat chick!. What a great, confidence boosting site. I keep thinking “I have something like that in my closet – why don’t I wear it like that?”. That’s where the learning part comes in. It’s one thing to talk to you guys on high like some uber-enlightened zaftig goddess but it’s another to really believe it in the face of garbage like “What’s easier – 1 hour of working out or 24 hours of being fat??” (another Pinterest gem).
So, I’m working on it. Every time I put on my high heel booties, I’m working on it. Every time I get a glare at the grocery store, I’m working it it. I just wish other people were working on it too.
Me, too. It kills me that in a world where spanking a child is viewed as abuse, hitting/starving/disciplining/purging one’s body is totally acceptable. I’ve been super, super thin. I’ve been pretty over weight. I can tell you, honestly, that being thin doesn’t feel that good. I remember not being able to sleep on my tummy, because my hip bones stuck out so much that they hurt. And I still thought I was “fat”, because I was sick. Sick with an eating disorder. I may be chubby now, but man, I feel good! Sure, I’d love to be more healthy, but it doesn’t affect how I feel about ME. I’m a good person. I’m nice. Nothing on the outside will change what is on the inside of me. No matter how fat or skinny you are, the only true happiness comes from having a healthy mindset, loving yourself for who you are, and doing good to other people.