ShadeDiva
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Joined: 3/31/2004 From: Sacramento, California Status: offline
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First a disclaimer: What I am about to say is in reference to ONLY MYSELF. They are my beliefs that I hold for myself and I do not seek nor do I attempt to impose *my* POV on others and I don't think less of them because they might view this differently and embrace what works ... for *them*. This post is in NO way, shape or form a commentary or remark on ANYONE else BUT me. I dislike BBW. And fluffy, plump, and every other cute or coined term or phrase that folks tend to use when trying to delicately describe someone that is overweight. I am FAT. F. A. T. - FAT. lol. I do not wish to call it something other than it is, nor do I wish to put it in a what many folks perceive as a nicer way to call it. It is my belief that for myself, if I start calling it something cute or coy, that I am helping to delude myself of the very real fact that I am fat. And I am. Fat, that is. I embrace the truth not because I like what my weight is at now, but because I refuse to mask it or hide it or deny it or cloud or make light of it or in any way cause me to think or see it as anything but what the cold hard realistic truth is. For me, it is about being honest (and again, because I could see this being the ONLY thing someone sees in this post, lol - I am NOT saying that folks that see it differently are lying or not being honest. This post - once again - is ONLY if reference to MYSELF). With myself, with the world, with other people. I kind of look at it that if I don't LIKE the truth of me being fat then I should get off my ass and DO something about it. Then again, for me, it IS I feel fully reversable. I don't have an overeating issue, in fact it is the reverse. Something that is VERY difficult for me to overcome is the fact that in order for me to LOSE weight, I have to eat. And eat a LOT compared to what I have been eating and am currently eating. I just have a REALLY hard time wrapping my brain that for me, a fat person, to get my metabolism going, that I have to literally triple my caloric intake (in a healthy way obviously) and eat 6 meals a day - EVEN IF I'M NOT HUNGRY. I just have a really hard time forcing myself to eat when I'm not hungry and that's what I'm supposed to be doing along with exercise. So for me, I like saying it blunt - I don't find anything negative in the word fat nor do I view it as a judgmental word to use, it's just an adjective, and it's the truth, so how could I possibly find a truthful adjective hurtful when I can change it? (again in case anyone missed the first two times I said this - I refer only to myself and my personal situation) That being said, I really haven't had ANY negative situation happen due to my weight. Of course that would most likely be because of my outlook. When someone calls me fat or tries to use it as an insult, it is ineffective and doesn't work, because I already know it and embrace it as a current truth for my body at this time in my life and stating the obvious really holds little power over me or my feelings or emotional state in general. When someone tries to wield it as a weapon, I'm able to sincerely laugh from the heart and respond with a "Duh, genius." I mean hello, I'm fat - I'm not oblivious LOL. It completely defuses them, and since that weapon has no power to affect me they are left with little else - after all when someone can only come up with a lame fat insult, it just shows how little power and imagination they have. I mean hell, if you are going to try to insult me at least have the decency to be original or somewhat creative. LOL. And really anyone that focuses THAT much on my body in such a negative way isn't a person I want around me anyway. I consider it rather nice as a filter to sort through that type of person and to be able to keep them out of my surroundings because THAT kind of mentality isn't going to do ME a lick of good. *I* prefer positive people around me, ones that rather than trying to be negative or drag me down, support me in my efforts to gain my health and body back and HELP me achieve my goal, not try to make it harder, or seek to undermine me and my efforts and hamper my chances for success. So they are actually doing me a favor - by exposing their inability to be a constructive force and energy in my life and help to enable me to change for the better so that I can simply cut them out and move on. So as a result of that - I find all my experiences to be good, merely because I don't focus that much or give any credence or power to the negative and dismiss it as being not worth my time or energy, and rather spend my enery on those that are positive forces and influences, for THOSE are the ones that help me. I don't know if that makes sense to anyone else but me, LOL, but there ya have it.
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