Paradigm shift

[yakalskovich]

Okay, there is a change in the wind.

People are starting conversations about  being 'fat affirming', and there's this funny little Brit bopper who sings that 'big girls are beautiful', while walking ahead of a cheerful, colourful set of happy fat women through the deathly boring centre of what I was assured is Croydon. And he's not being denigrating or taking the Mickey. It's a fun summer song.

You know, sadness, self-loathing, low self-worth and all the rest of the emo bag of tricks makes people feel much heavier than actual pounds and stones and kilos.

Hey, we can hop and skip dance and cheer, and sucks to the rest of the world. The rest is technicalities.-

Comments

[wiebke.livejournal.com]

You're right. Whatever the health facts are, a bad attitude will weigh a person down, hold them back, more than anything.

[yakalskovich]

Whatever the facts are, and however they are interpreted - I maintain that Mika's song is better for my wellbeing than ten silly diets.

Because my wellbeing? Springs from my mind more than anything.

[wiebke.livejournal.com]

Deepak Chopra would agree with you. So do I!

[yakalskovich]

And so would many others that we've physically been sitting down with in hotel rooms in Stafford, I guess.-

Some of my best cheering up recently has come from Lucifer, actually. I'd be going round the bend with worry about our houses being torn down and all of us getting moved somewhere else - but then there's that little red critter bringing me his little red squishy ball to throw, and all that angst just curls up and dies.

[wiebke.livejournal.com]

My guinea pigs have been very comforting to me.

[yakalskovich]

I'm always ready to claim that I've got the cutest cat of them all.

And then I duck while Caleb and you defend Luckie and Sophie respectively... *grins*

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

You all have seriously cute cats, and if I had one, it would be even cuter. : P

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

My mantra: There's too much body hatred in the world.

Go you!

[yakalskovich]

Try as we may to deny it one way or another, we all have bodies. And if the bodies aren't 'right', all we end up doing is fight windmills. With the aded bonus of actually being the miller.

[anghara13.livejournal.com]

There was a time when I would have been happy to say that my weight wasn't an issue for me. I was fine the size I was, and damn the world for making me even think I had to be a size zero clothes horse anorexic skeleton to be attractive or fit. Then I had my son, and being unable to keep up with him, unable to catch him if he ran, and he does run even now, became a liability.

Not to mention, my health is suffering. So, I made the decision to go ahead and change the little things in my diet that could help me to lose weight, and it's working. No starvation, no suffering (apart from the fact that I'm sick as hell right now with tonsillitis), and no weighing and measuring. Just a few simple changes to what I eat.

And yeah, Mika's song does give me a reason to smile, I'm never going to be a sylph, I wouldn't feel like me, and I would be uncomfortable being that way. I guess if other people find me attractive, they can't all be blind or stupid, so maybe I am. And that's now. Oh yes, I have the low self-esteem thing in spades, er, JCB digger buckets....

As for the hopping and skipping and dancing? Ooooh, careful, all that exercise will make you skinny.....