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I was reading some of my older entries and it is rediculous how many of them focus on what I've eaten that day, guilt at eating too much the day before or what exercise I've done to make up for it. It's awful! This has been one massive change thats occured in the few years since I last wrote in this regularly. I love food, I enjoy eating, and I am pleased to take up my rightful space in the world. It really seems like society's obsession with thinness, and losing weight is just another way to keep women down. I just read a comment on some article on www.thefword.org.uk and I think they hit the nail right on the head. I totally just copied and pasted this but I think it's so accurate:
Turn Your Back On Page 3 said: "......If you are 'skinny' & miserable you are not likely to be as productive as you should be. You might be tired, run down. You might be constantly worried about food and body image. You might be constantly exercising. Basically all the ingredients that equal being distracted from important things like educating yourself, empowering yourself and changing the world....."
Yeah stop caring!!!!love yourself whatever you look like and then you have the energy to think about the really important things in life.
I think nowadays as a woman one of the most revolutionary things you can do is love yourself and be happy with who you are and how you look. The whole world is telling us we should want to be thinner, want plastic surgery to change our faces, want to wear loads of make up to disguise ourselves and remove all our body hair to conform to some stereotype. If you truly do love and care for yourself from within then noone can hold you back anymore!
Yeah!
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on to the mundane possibly slightly boring details of my day. I went to work on the farm this morning, worked with Ross who hasnt worked with my for ages. I did some gardening, then pulled up brambles in the wood for a couple of hours then ate my lunch, did more gardening more brambling and then went home, rather sunburnt, extremely muddy and very happy. Was a lovely sunny day. Yesterday I had a riding lesson and then we went to the berr festival at uni. Hopefully we'll go tomorrow as well. It's tash's birthday tomorrow.
Ha I tried to cook some nettles to have with pasta for tea. My sister told me it made a good accompniment to pasta, but not that you had to use a blender or they are WAY too chewy. I don't have a blender so it was kind of gross. haha. Lesson learned. Watched an awesome film at tea time with alice and steph called steel magnolias which has Julia Roberts and Dolly Parton in and is very good but very sad. I cried! I had a nice bottle of Pale Rider with my tea as well.
Tomorrow I plan to get up early, go to the library and do some work then go into town and buy a new nose stud or two cos mine's gone manky and is making my nose sore.
Oh I had a really vivid dream last night that ended with me kissing and wanting to have sex with this girl called tash who went to school with me. It was nice. The whole 'am i gay' thing is in my head again.
Turn Your Back On Page 3 said: "......If you are 'skinny' & miserable you are not likely to be as productive as you should be. You might be tired, run down. You might be constantly worried about food and body image. You might be constantly exercising. Basically all the ingredients that equal being distracted from important things like educating yourself, empowering yourself and changing the world....."
Yeah stop caring!!!!love yourself whatever you look like and then you have the energy to think about the really important things in life.
I think nowadays as a woman one of the most revolutionary things you can do is love yourself and be happy with who you are and how you look. The whole world is telling us we should want to be thinner, want plastic surgery to change our faces, want to wear loads of make up to disguise ourselves and remove all our body hair to conform to some stereotype. If you truly do love and care for yourself from within then noone can hold you back anymore!
Yeah!
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on to the mundane possibly slightly boring details of my day. I went to work on the farm this morning, worked with Ross who hasnt worked with my for ages. I did some gardening, then pulled up brambles in the wood for a couple of hours then ate my lunch, did more gardening more brambling and then went home, rather sunburnt, extremely muddy and very happy. Was a lovely sunny day. Yesterday I had a riding lesson and then we went to the berr festival at uni. Hopefully we'll go tomorrow as well. It's tash's birthday tomorrow.
Ha I tried to cook some nettles to have with pasta for tea. My sister told me it made a good accompniment to pasta, but not that you had to use a blender or they are WAY too chewy. I don't have a blender so it was kind of gross. haha. Lesson learned. Watched an awesome film at tea time with alice and steph called steel magnolias which has Julia Roberts and Dolly Parton in and is very good but very sad. I cried! I had a nice bottle of Pale Rider with my tea as well.
Tomorrow I plan to get up early, go to the library and do some work then go into town and buy a new nose stud or two cos mine's gone manky and is making my nose sore.
Oh I had a really vivid dream last night that ended with me kissing and wanting to have sex with this girl called tash who went to school with me. It was nice. The whole 'am i gay' thing is in my head again.