[Make-Your-Own Meme] Fitness and salads OR what health means OR the very dramatic story of my life

[justira]

Hey it's a post from that ridiculous/amazing/this is the worst idea/this is the best idea Make-Your-Own Meme "blog every day of November" thing! Original post/list of topics. Feel free to add more: LJ | DW - anon and openID welcome!

thebaconfat: you've mentioned before trying to get fit and/or eating salads; is that something you still struggle with? ( here

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[justira]

Well! Our culture does not really predispose us towards a healthy relationship with food or bodies or ourselves, and it's something I think should be discussed more and more openly - though, of course, that same culture discourages that very thing. OH GOOD. And I know it's very hard for many people to talk about, but I have always been pretty much OVERSHARE CITY once you get me going - I'm okay discussing almost anything along these lines, I just don't often have the energy, for possibly obvious reasons! So if I *can* talk about it, I feel like I should at least try, and maybe it will make it easier for other people, or at least get some thinkings going, or just... even put it on the table as Something That Is Okay To Talk About, Swears. something >.>

Along which lines, thank you in turn! I hope your own such endeavours are doing all right! It is a complicated and very individual business; I wish you all the luck and support ♥

Gender! That is! That is another thing I have been meaning to talk about, and if I am just going to be handed an excuse to do it..! I can definitely talk about my own gender adventures, but I am just going to warn you, it might devolve into a general post on What I Think About Gender - a post I've been planning for months, really. So um. If you are prepared to hear All About Gender Forever, then I will happily oblige?

[squeemu]

And of course when culture does discuss, it's sort of in the same tone it discusses serial killers -- it is, of course, a terrible thing but it is also glamorous and spoken of in tones of almost-admiration. D:

I think it is pretty awesome to be able to be a resident in OVERSHARE CITY. I always sort of wish I was more comfortable talking about myself? But usually it's like, blah blah OH WAIT I HAVE SAID MORE THAN TWO SENTENCES I MUST BE BORING YOU. It doesn't make for very good conversations.

My own endeavours are doing alright! Except for the way that I am now struggling to eat less because when I'm stressed I tend to just stuff food in my mouth, and haha, I am so stressed right now. (I dabbled in anorexia and, uh, addiction to exercise for awhile in high school? And at my lightest I was 130 pounds, I think. Which I don't think is even considered underweight for my height, but whatever. I have a hard time finding a happy medium.)

I am very interested in gender! I actually got the chance to talk to Scott Turner Schofield last night (he is super friendly and nice, oh my gosh) after seeing both a panel he was in re: transgender issues and then his performance of "Two Truths and a Lie." I actually just made a post about it! And, uh, I have a few friends who don't really associate with either gender and I've never fit the typical female gender well (although I don't feel any weirdness about it) SO. I would love to hear you talk about gender and your adventures!

[justira]

OH WAIT I HAVE SAID MORE THAN TWO SENTENCES I MUST BE BORING YOU

This is actually a BIG PART of why I do not really talk about myself at any length on my journal? And why I included "once you get me going" in the OVERSHARE CITY thing! I tend to assume that people are not interested in hearing All About Me and that I am boring, so I am generally very leery of just VOLUNTEERING myself/things about me as the topic of conversation. (Also why I totally fail at twitter. But if the twitter topic is not ME then I am super happy! I'm the most prolific of the ff_press editors in our twitter account because I get to talk about WHY THINGS ARE AWESOME!)

However, part of the great thing about the meme for me (it is all about me!) is that people have given me a billion excuses to talk about myself! And once I have an excuse to think that people are interested, then I can move to Overshare City and open a bar =d

I am glad your health adventures are at least doing okay! I definitely sympathize with how hard it is to negotiate, and stress is SO HELPFUL. Stress makes me lose my appetite, so I am usually struggling to eat more; I imagine dealing with the opposite reaction is also NOT VERY AWESOME. I'm sorry you're in this position :(

(Though also sidenote: I love how our culture disappears people with anorexia who are not underweight? THERE ARE LOTS. I have seen this assumption in ACTION, of "you are not skinny, you can't be anorexic!" >(   )

I saw that post, actually! Though I was too tired to reply and at this point will probably save my thoughts for my post! But I have totally added gender adventures as a topic and am super looking forward to it! I am pretty sure it will include PICTURES AND CHARTS?