Comments | first_seventhe: SORRY ABOUT THE TEAL DEER.... OHMYGOD THEY'RE BREEDING

first_seventhe

SORRY ABOUT THE TEAL DEER.... OHMYGOD THEY'RE BREEDING

Apr 29, 2010 11:49

( On Running A Lot, Honoring Your Body, Donuts, and Why BMI Is Bullshit: A Workout Manifesto, Possibly The First Of Many Long Rambles Unless I am Mass Defriended )

things i can't even explain, asthma / inhaler, oh good!, i require alcohol, fucking a donut, running, series: healthblogging, this entry is all about me, tl;dr, i am ambivalent towards running, that's a bad life choice

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first_seventhe April 29 2010, 17:05:14 UTC

GOSH I KNOW I JUST COULDN'T SHUT UP ( ... )

deadshrimpblues April 30 2010, 03:34:50 UTC

Does it make you feel shaky and hot and completely weak in the limbs at sudden unpredictable moments until you go eat a piece of fruit or something? Because if so, hello me.

albijuli April 29 2010, 17:56:31 UTC

Dis comment to let you know that I am following you on Twitter. I'm the one with the Ness icon, cloudsounder.

More reasonable comment in a sec...

eerian_sadow April 29 2010, 18:22:06 UTC

sev, i could kiss you right now! the way you laid it all out there is beautifully easy to understand. i wish more people thought like this. (or if they did, would admit to it) i am not a "pretty girl", but i am who i am and that is beautiful.

and so is everyone else here. ^_^

albijuli April 29 2010, 19:04:05 UTC

>>To pretend that I am immune from society’s pressures to look a certain way would be ridiculous and, in the end, counterproductive.

SO THIS. I was guilty of this line of thinking: I had this friend, and just because she was thinner than me, blonde, with blue eyes and was a "comfortable" C cup, I thought she had nothing to worry about. It wasn't until later when I realized how WRONG that was.

This was doubly stupid since the friend was also in Dance- ballet, to be specific, and dance has crazy ideals about how women should look. CURVES ARE BAD. SIZE 1 OR BUST. DO NOT HAVE A BUST. YOU ARE TOO TALL. YOU ARE TOO SHORT. That sort of bullshit.

>>Who picked "skinny" as the default connotation for "healthy"???

I, for one, blame the media.

katmillia April 29 2010, 21:15:19 UTC

Seriously, this is exactly what I feel all the time- I'm not losing weight by running. In fact, I've never been able to get myself down from the 135-140 range since I graduated from undergrad three years ago. This is my "ideal range", apparently, and where my body naturally levels out at. This is fine for me, because while it SOUNDS heavy compared to people sprouting this "I weigh 120!" nonsense, it's not really at all! And my BMI wants to tell me that I am approaching "heavy"- are you fucking kidding me? I've finally figured out that my smallest size I should ever be and be HEALTHY is what I am now, a 4. Even a 2 is almost impossible for me because, guess what? I have hips. I have curves! Imagine that, as a girl. And because of this, no, I will not ever be a size 0 or 2. Does this make me fat? Um, no. lol Once I let go of "I need to be this size!" I started feeling so much better about shopping for clothes ( ... )