First THANK YOU- every time I read on of your posts the little fat girl inside me weeps with joy.

I agree with you, but I have to say, it’s easier said than done to truly believe that those comments are their problems and not yours. Because they actually do become your problem, in that you have to see, hear, read that shit, decide to ignore it, delete, etc. It takes a conscious effort to block that noise out.

If your doctors, nurses, PAs, whomever, are making you feel bad for your illness, you should find a new practice. Because that’s not okay. You are seeing them in order to get healthy, and you can’t do that when they make you feel bad. Your body is not a moral failing.

That sucks and it’s kinda funny since “low-fat” and lean cuisine are not the most effective way to lose weight or stay lean.

I go to Korean spas quite a bit now ever since I discovered them a few years back. It’s wonderful to see every different shape and size relaxing and not giving a hoot. I think because only perfect bodies are shown in the media, people have a really skewed vision of what the average body looks like. I know I did.

I think we share a co-worker. These bitches always have to comment on what everyone is eating and how we SHOULD be on a diet. Eat, don’t eat, but mind your own damn business.

I was so hard on myself when I was a size 6, and now that I’m a hell of a lot bigger I wish I could go back in time and shake myself out of that kind of thinking.

I had a coworker at my last job who was routinely furious that, even though I was fat and she wasn’t, I still allowed myself to enjoy food while she subsisted in Lean Cuisine and fat-free yogurt. It made her SO angry, and she just couldn’t shut up about it—she’d hover around my cubicle at lunch time and make comments…

Yes! I should never take my community for granted :)

I was in Hawaii a few years back. I was a size 6 at the time. Feeling all sad I wasn’t a four. Hiding under a beach mumu.I was people watching and I really started to pay attention to the bodies around me.literally NO ONE looked “perfect”. Even the tall thin ones had butt dimples or stretch marks. People of all shapes…

I think a lot of people do equate skinniness with happiness. They work and suffer and try and obsess so that they can get to a size or weight where they think ‘happiness’ lives. And some of them manage to do that. So they think they’ve ‘earned’ their happiness. They ‘earned’ that boyfriend (who would dump them in a…

“This did make us aware that we need some kind of abstinence or sex ed program,”

When that guy trolled you, what happened was not “nothing”. Somebody stood up for you, more than once, in a pretty darn boss way! People often avoid this, under a “don’t feed the trolls” policy online, and by trying to bury problems instead of avoiding them IRL, but this person clearly felt strongly enough about it to…

because they are completely unhappy with themselves and then they see people who are happy, maybe people they think are even worse then them and it drives them fucking crazy. People who are happy don’t shit all over strangers.

I think people who aren’t happy with themselves get jealous of those who are. It’s pretty pathetic.

I will never understand why people hate on other people's happiness. I guess that's why I'm not a troll.

If you have to search around for your passion, it is probably not a passion.

If you try to make your passion into a job, you turn your passion into work. "Do what you love" is a good sentiment, but really terrible career advice. The world does not need that many poets, musicians, and photographers, and you can chase those dreams forever and end up broke and resentful. It is very dangerous to…

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