August 2009

Step Out of the Woods, Out of the Dark, and Into the Light…

August 19, 2009

My name is Kristina and I am FAT. I have been secretly recit­ing this to myself lately. Not as a way to keep me down but rather as a way to remind myself of a real­ity that I have spent years run­ning from. See, it was not until I saw myself next to my very weight-conscious friends from work that I started to really under­stand just what I have done to myself. Most of my work friends weigh between 130–140 pounds, shop at the design­ers bou­tiques, and never have to worry if the lat­est com­pany “Unity” shirt will fit. They are […]

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The Beginning

August 14, 2009

I wrote this last August but it pretty much sums up my issues . It was orig­i­nally posted on my blog Mom on the Rise. I guess there is no bet­ter place to start. I am fat. OK, I am obese.  She thought that she had the “biggest knick­ers in the world,” but the truth is that her knick­ers pale in com­par­i­son. And while I am attempt­ing make a sorry joke of this, the fact of the mat­ter is that I can­not make a joke of how I feel. For­get how I look. How I look is no match for […]

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