I am blogging stuff like crazy today...

[yakalskovich]

... but as the Little Lady has gone home, I'm catching up with my usual life.

I liked this article about how repressed we are, today, compared to the sixties. Especially about the duty to be healthy at other people's standards

Comments

[bitchy_brat]

Personally I think people as a whole, in general, are rather disgruntled about a lot of things. I've done the whole griping about needing to lose weight. I've worked myself to exhaustion and not dropped down to a "healthy" BMI rate. Then I decided it was pointless and as long as I can keep up when chasing my kids, it didn't matter.

In nutrition class our professor explained that some people are like that. They can't lose or gain because their body has set an "ideal weight" to maintain. I guess mine's forever set around 150lbs because I can't budge much under it. I could go over, and have gone over, but then it's difficult to keep up while chasing the three year old monstrosity!

All in all, I now tell people that I am in shape - round is a shape. I've learned to be content with who I am for all that I am and anybody that thinks otherwise can kiss my egotistical ass :)

[yakalskovich]

Yes, I know -- do click the 'fat acceptance' tag on this post, and follow some links I posted earlier. It's all there.

And yes, round is definitely a shape.-

[bitchy_brat]

Yay! Reading to catch up on :) I added you on tumblr too, in case you hadn't figured that out already. I'm a sneaky ninja that way!

[yakalskovich]

Oh! That was you!

**follows you back**

[tekalynn]

I don't know how I missed the Fat Acceptance 101 post before, but it's wonderful. Thank you so much for writing it. *hug*

[yakalskovich]

You are welcome! I did that post about a year ago because I didn't just want to watch people on my flist beating themselves up about weight any more and ignore them with a shrug, instead of at least pointing them, once, towards the alternative I had found.

I don't want to tell anybody to stop their dieting bullshit and do that instead; that would be self-righteous. But I felt mean, knowing about it, feeling so liberated after decades of matter-of-course self-repression (that was of course not working at all) and not showing my flist that it exists so they have a choice.-

[essayel]

I was telling Paul last night that he's got 60% more woman now than when we got married.

Am I going to have to join tumblr too to keep up with you?

[yakalskovich]

My tumblr is strictly on topic; anything that's of a halfway general interest I crosspost or link, anyway.

As for the 60% more woman -- it's natural for a person to gain weight over the years, especially a woman who had kids. Modern standards just don't allow us to be natural any more.

[essayel]

It's not as bad here as in the states. I see scads of natural looking women in the streets every day and just the occasional one who's still that same shape she was when she was 20. Most of those are the incredibly athletic type [like my friend Anna who does 3 day eventing on a horse the size of an elephant and regularly puts in a 12 hour day in the garden] - it's only the occasional one who looks like a beautifully groomed corpse..