Friday, May 2, 2008
DOVE does it again
Many of you have heard of Dove's Campaign For Real Beauty and their size positive advertising. Well I found an ad from the Campaign For Real Beauty on YouTube that just blew me away ~
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Learning To Love Myself
I have struggled with my weight and negative feelings about my body since I was a girl.
I received my fair share of taunting both at school and from my family. My mom felt it was her duty to make me feel guilty every time I opened the refrigerator.
I spent much of my early teen years on diets and made myself sweat to the oldies religiously.
Then I got married and inherited more fatphobic family members. I took the bullying without a complaint because I honestly thought I deserved it. It hurt deeply but it was my fault for being fat.
About three years ago I began spending alot of time online searching for diets and miracle fat busters when I happened across a website called NAAFA (National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance) and that began my journey to loving myself just the way I am. I was so shocked to learn that there was a thing called 'The Fat Acceptance Movement' I remember sitting there
with tears in my eyes as the realization that I had the option to just accept myself rather than
face another failed diet. Talk about an aha moment!
I began searching extensively and learned that there are men out there that actually prefer fat girls, these FAs( To all the FAs, I salute you!) or Fat Admirers are naturally attracted to the curvy female body. This was definately news to me. I had spent my entire marriage trying to get skinny so that my husband could begin to find me attractive.
The more I read the more I cried, the more I cried the angrier I became. I was so angry at all the people that made me feel less than human and angry with myself that I had allowed people to treat me that way and let their opinion of me become my reality.
As the days passed and I moved from searching the net to reading books like Fat! So? and A Fat Girls Guide To Life a new person began to emerge from the ashes of my heart, a strong, determined woman who set herself to accepting her body just as it is and demanding respect from those around her.
This was my transformation and it continues to this day. I would like to dedicate this blog to all the girls out there who have yet to learn that they are beautiful just the way they are.
This video has become wildly popular on YouTube and reaffirmed my commitment to accept myself ~
I received my fair share of taunting both at school and from my family. My mom felt it was her duty to make me feel guilty every time I opened the refrigerator.
I spent much of my early teen years on diets and made myself sweat to the oldies religiously.
Then I got married and inherited more fatphobic family members. I took the bullying without a complaint because I honestly thought I deserved it. It hurt deeply but it was my fault for being fat.
About three years ago I began spending alot of time online searching for diets and miracle fat busters when I happened across a website called NAAFA (National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance) and that began my journey to loving myself just the way I am. I was so shocked to learn that there was a thing called 'The Fat Acceptance Movement' I remember sitting there
with tears in my eyes as the realization that I had the option to just accept myself rather than
face another failed diet. Talk about an aha moment!
I began searching extensively and learned that there are men out there that actually prefer fat girls, these FAs( To all the FAs, I salute you!) or Fat Admirers are naturally attracted to the curvy female body. This was definately news to me. I had spent my entire marriage trying to get skinny so that my husband could begin to find me attractive.
The more I read the more I cried, the more I cried the angrier I became. I was so angry at all the people that made me feel less than human and angry with myself that I had allowed people to treat me that way and let their opinion of me become my reality.
As the days passed and I moved from searching the net to reading books like Fat! So? and A Fat Girls Guide To Life a new person began to emerge from the ashes of my heart, a strong, determined woman who set herself to accepting her body just as it is and demanding respect from those around her.
This was my transformation and it continues to this day. I would like to dedicate this blog to all the girls out there who have yet to learn that they are beautiful just the way they are.
This video has become wildly popular on YouTube and reaffirmed my commitment to accept myself ~
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