This post is a comment reply to Atchka's post up right now over at Fierce Fatties, the end result of a debate, discussion, flamewar, whatever over on Tumblr. Basically a size 6 kid posted on Fuck Yeah Chubby Girls and was attacked for it by people w…
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Blog posts March 2011
Adele
A friend of mine posted a video on Facebook today of a very talented youg woman named Adele. She's got a great voice and I hope she goes far. I love that she's fat and out there singing her heart out on Letterman and hitting Gold on the Canadian ch…
Cultivate Yourself by Elizabeth Patch
Today is the first day of Spring! This means many things to many people; for me it means a ritual celebration with my dearest and dearest, good food, chocolates and planting the first seeds for the upcoming gardening season. I'm not going to put in …
Advil is my friend
I've been knocked on my butt by yet another illness, some kind of viral throat/upper respiratory thing and it's really starting to frustrate me. Unless I take Advil every 4-5 hours my throat gets so painful and swollen I can barely drink anything, a…
Reframing the obesity 'epidemic'
We've been seeing in the news lately new stats as to how overweight, obese, deathfat, etc Canada, the US and other countries are compared to each other. "Nearly a quarter of all adults are overweight! 20% are obese! 1/4 children are fat!" OH NOES an…
Dr. Sharma & COACH
Ok, I'm getting a little confused. First Dr. Sharma is my HAES, fat accepting hero, and now he's pushing a national weight loss control network called COACH-Canadian Obesity Awareness and Control initiative for Health. Do not like. Get this:
Rebranding?
Hey there, just a(nother) short note to say that apparently my webhost, Viviti, is now Jigsy, which is why a bunch of my posts suddenly appeared in the feed. Nothing else should change except for my web url thank goodness. Um, so yeah, enjoy my old…
Weight Loss: It's pervasive
Talking about goals and strategies in class tonight. A friend of mine has the goal to lose weight. It's really really annoying to hear this be talked about as an example. I hope noone in the class has been through an eating disorder or something si…
I respectfully disagree
I know I'm fat, Ok? I'm aware of my bmi and my pants size and all that. I know what my physical fitness level is, and roughly what my health is doing (no complaints, honestly). When I go to the doctor's I get weighed, it's written down and that's t…
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