I love living in the south. It's beautiful and I love the age of it all. I love New Orleans and it's hoodoo and Florida and it's sandy beaches. There's so many beautiful amazing things about it. But....there are absolutely parts of the south you should not be anything other than Baptist or Methodist in. Like, don't…

You're kidding me right? My ex and I did the long distance thing too. Somehow that makes it worse? Cutting off contact with him is not just losing my fiance but also losing my best friend. When I first found out about the cheating, he willingly gave me his all his passwords. Then, when I couldn't resist snooping, I…

Emotional/Phsycial double whammies are the WORST. I am still TALKING to the ex that Tiger Woods'd me. I can't even cut off contact with him. I think he'd be fine if I did, but he's been my best friend for 4 years and he's who I game with. Lame excuses I know, but, I'm not ready yet.

Thank you so much for your kind words. It's been really difficult for me to focus on having a positive body image lately, but it's something that I need to focus on at least a little. I can't avoid the mirror forever. I have an unfortunate genetic condition and after years of starvation dieting to try to eliminate…

Oh, but that makes too much sense! That couldn't possibly be true!

This made my day!

Yeah, this is why I couldn't do that diet either. I just love bread. And i really really hate whole grain. I ate for 10 years with the thinking that I'll get used to it and learn to like it. Even after years of nothing but whole grain bread I still hated it. So, now I only eat bread that I make from scratch. I figure…

But but....if you're right that means we can't blame all the fat fat fatties for all the health problems, and for killing themselves on the government dime!!1!eleventy!!1

hey! Thanks for mentioning this. I'm struggling with ED and have some serious body image issues. I've been working on looking at pictures of normal to plus sized bodies and avoiding (as much as I can) images that have been heavily edited. (No glossies for me!)

At the time I lived in Baxley, Georgia. It's about 30 minutes away from Vidalia. You might have heard of Vidalia onions. Now, thankfully I live in Atlanta. It's not too bad unless you leave the perimeter. :) My eventual aim is to get back down to Miami.

Omg, MormaJew is the funniest thing I've read today. You have excellent friends.

I find it to usually be true whenever someone states their opinion and it has a 'but' in it, you can ignore everything before the 'but'. I don't mean to be sexist, but...I don't mean to be racist, but. I disregard everything before 'but' because after is all I need. People telegraph their worse fears about…

Ha! That's funny you mention being Jewish. I'm a jew by birth, but I wasn't reared as a jew. We moved to a very small southern town when I was about 8. Prior to that, being Jewish wasn't a big deal. But my first day at school there, we had a world music class. And one of the songs was Hava Nagila. And I knew some of…

We try to give our children hearts full of love and compassion, but then we have to give them thick skin to survive those little shit that left their compassionate hearts at home.

I think back on that little boy and wonder how he turned out. If he even remembers that event. Maybe it was just a bad day for him, but for me it was a turning point in my childhood. I've tried to find him on facebook, but while I remember his first and last name, that's really all I have to go on. I hope he's okay…

Being fat and eating in public will absolutely get comments thrown your way. Doesn't matter if it's a salad or a steak. Fat+public eating=hateful comments

I wanted that too. I wasn't one of the mean kids. I was one of those kids who saw someone in pain and had absolutely NO IDEA what to do about it. One time we had some kind of stupid bear contest and everyone was supposed to bring in their best teddy bears. This one kid, who was really poor and his parents on top…

*internet hugs* I'm so sorry. I remember seeing hurts like this in my childhood friends and hurting for them and feeling helpless and not knowing what to do. As an adult I can't remember these hurts ever being mine. But I still remember that boy in 3rd grade and that little girl girl in kindergarten. Looking back 30…

I agree. That is a bold choice for a hair do. I'm not sure I have the logical fallacies in place to convince myself it would be flattering on me. But....good for her. You do you little strange.

As long as it's relying on the internal organs of the mother to survive, it's inherent value is determined by the woman carrying it. Once it can live on it's own outside of the mother's body, then it's inherent value is determined by society. I really don't see where you're going with these questions. They've all…