2010

Acceptable Discrimination and Why Fat Acceptance is Necessary

March 7, 2010

Have you ever noticed that it is per­fectly accept­able to make fun of and degrade peo­ple who are fat? Think about it for a sec­ond. When­ever a movie needs to show that some­one was pre­vi­ously unat­trac­tive there are flash­backs of him/her being fat (think Mon­ica (Court­ney Cox) on Friends).  I was watch­ing (some­what begrudg­ingly) The Seeker on the WB and the main char­ac­ter was forced to enter­tain a King’s unat­trac­tive sis­ter. Of course she was over­weight and to add insult to injury, she was sex­u­ally aggres­sive and des­per­ate because of course no man had every touched her before. Unfor­tu­nately, this […]

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The Decision

February 10, 2010

After going back and forth for 4 years and com­ing so close to hav­ing the surgery only to learn that my insur­ance stopped cov­er­ing the sur­geon, I have decided to move for­ward with weight loss surgery.  I will chron­i­cle my jour­ney here because as I talk a lit­tle more about it I real­ize that more and more peo­ple think that under­go­ing WLS is a cop out– it’s tak­ing the easy way out. And, like with most things in my life, I feel the need to edu­cate and inform peo­ple on the real­ity. If you have read my pre­vi­ous posts you […]

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Exercise Anyway You Can

January 1, 2010

Intro­duc­ing Bucket the Won­der­dog Happy Hol­i­days every­one! If your Christ­mas (if you cel­e­brate it) was half as good as mine then you should be very happy! This year we decided to add a dog to the mix– a beau­ti­fully well-tempered dog named Bucket (my daugh­ter named him). Isn’t he adorable?! While we made this deci­sion so that my daugh­ter would have a play­mate, we did so also because of the exer­cis­ing ben­e­fits. We live in as apart­ment and since mak­ing the deci­sion to work from home I have become some­what of a shut in. I home­school my daugh­ter and then […]

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