completely cool email sent to me from, of all people, my mom! she's usually not a paragon of fat acceptance. so i'm very pleasantly surprised by this. in other news, foot is healing pretty nicely. had a bit of a setback today when i accidentally slammed it into the pavement. i think i just need to stay away from parking lots! also, doc treated me ( Read more... )

first, i would like to report that yahoo messenger makes my computer crash. yesterday and today, i had to completely uninstall and then reinstall yahoo messenger in order to get it to open w/o crashing my computer. yeah, it's working for now... but i don't want to have to keep reinstalling yahoo messenger! so... any of my more techie people have ( Read more... )

ok so fair warning... i'm watching some guilty pleasures tv... the fashion show on bravo tv. yeah yeah don't judge me! so the designers are gonna be designing this week for 'real women.' (b/c there are fake women out there somewhere i guess...) aaaaaaany hoo... one of the designers said something to the effect of ( Read more... )

aaaaaaaaahhh, the media...
so i was actually up this morning watching tv while waiting for laundry to dry so i could pack for south plains leather festival. and i was sorta watching the tv when the today show came on. and they just haaaaaaappened to have a story on a new medical study about weight loss. and i almost threw my brand new thigh-high ( Read more... )

i'm all over the fatosphere today baby!!! or should i say... the sphereosphere? bwahahahahaaa! (i love that btw...) there's a nifty post up over at lardy cake about sizes and how nobody really knows what size looks like what. it's timely for me as only yesterday i was approached by a young lady while shopping in target. she liked my shirt, which i ( Read more... )

soooooooo... i decided to check out some shows on the tele tonite. i have some interesting things to say about them. first, i decided to check out 'i can make you thin' which airs on tlc. i was totally prepared to hate this show. i figured it would be total shit and a bunch of the 'normal' advice on losing weight like starve yourself and only eat ( Read more... )

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some news from the fatosphere! here's some new research that suggest that for some ppl... the whole diet thing will never work b/c their melanocortin system is fucked.  shocking, i know. also, more news that the whole diet thing is often a big fat scam.  this is also TOTALLY SHOCKING!! sadly, i know someone who fell for this schlock. she's fallen ( Read more... )

newsflash to all of us fatties!!! you gluttons shouldn't be allowed to eat in public b/c UR TEH FAT!!!!111!!!11

i really wish i were kidding. but, sadly, i'm not. it's not enough that the 'soft laws' of fashion/pop culture/current standards of beauty tell us that we have to look a very certain way or we're not acceptable humans. but do we really ( Read more... )

so there have been some very interesting posts on the feminist blog i read. one was about how we shouldn't want to tell fat ppl that they are attractive b/c then we'd be encouraging an 'unhealthy lifestyle ( Read more... )