to my obsession! I hope you will find laughs and insights that will help you on your journey to a healthy outlook on body image. If you aren't on a journey to a healthy outlook on body image, I hope you can enjoy some of the other stuff. If not, I hope you will recommend this site to someone who might benefit from it and say something NICE. Just remember, every journey is unique.
Mine was kind of long and boring, but I am SURE gonna make it seem interesting. So come on in, sample and partake and even gorge. Stay as long as you want cuz when I'm tired, I'm going to bed. Please don't steal anything I can't replace.


What's New in these last few days of March?

I started a new day gig and I'm still adjusting to fewer hours in the day. And daylight savings sort of kicked my but since the two things happened in the same week. But I got some stuff done. Here's what you can lap up for the next couple of weeks since March is almost over:

1. New Joke
2. New Quote
3. New Recipe
4. New Oprah
5. New Lips, Hips
6. New Body Language Video - Alicia Brandt!
7. And the Almost but not quite daily blog.

I'm working on securing a new Queer video, but if you haven't seen Chloe's video, please watch. You will be inspired.


In California everyone thinks fat is something you can catch, and therefore it is to be avoided.

~ Roseanne Arnold

Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.

~ Barbara Ehrenreich
  • A calorie counter
  • A meal plan
  • A doctor's advice telling you how to eat to cleanse your colon
  • A dieticians advice telling you to "eat on a smaller plate"
  • A nutritionist's advice telling you "fruit and vegetables make you feel full longer"
  • Pictures of women with perfect bodies that make you question your own body
  • Pictures of women with perfect bodies who say, "If I did it, so can YOU!"
  • Painful exercise suggestions
  • Exercise equipment for sale which you will never use but also never return
  • Recipes that only chefs with other people to prep the ingredients can find time to make
  
  • Laughs
  • Hints
  • Tips
  • Insights
  • Laughs
  • inspiration
  • LOTS of folks sharing stuff and
  • Laughs



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Okay, so I'm not a doctor and I'm not a dietician and I'm not a nutritionist and mostly I find those people difficult to follow and overwhelming and they make me mad sometimes. If I were to try to get as many servings a day of the things those people suggest, I would be the size of the Jolly Green Giant and have a bloat the size of the Titanic. Plus I would never have time to do anything else. What I am is someone who has struggled with her weight since birth and finally feels like I have a handle on it. I'm just here to share with you the things that have helped me. Over the last three and a half years I have lost 75 pounds and I have kept it off for almost two years. I did it in a few different ways. But what was most important for me to discover and realize is that we are ALL different. Go figure. Who knew that not eating might not actually make me lose weight and, in fact, might cause the opposite? I know it now. Not every diet plan or every exercise plan works for every body. Nor does it work with every psychology.

Continued in "For Your Eyes Only"...