Weight Loss, Denial, and Body Image

(This is an edited version of a post I put on my personal blog last week.  So some of you have already seen this.  So my apologies to those that have already seen this, but I DID warn you it was going to be showing up here!!!    )
I’ve lost weight.
I don’t know [...]

Fat Positive thoughts in the oddest places.

I just got on the desktop computer* and opened up a webpage, which is set to iGoogle under my username.  I have it set to “random themes” and I get a different one every day.  This is one part of what came up today.
At first, I just looked at the colors and thought “oooh!  I [...]

Some wishes DO come true!

When I first found the Fatosphere back in October of last year, I wasn’t looking for a place full of righteous indignation.  I wasn’t looking to become an activist.  No, my initial reaction was much more self-centered than that.
I just wanted to like myself.
I had spent so long absolutely abhorring myself that I was exhausted [...]

From no self-esteem to arrogance in 8 short months. Just ask me how!

That was the last sentence of a comment on Fillyjonk’s promotion of Stacy Bias’ The Fat Experience Project.  I’d already read about it at The Rotund, but I was responding specifically to a comment made by FJ herself.
Please check out the project and send in your stories — I want to see Shapelings represented here. [...]

In which I might get a bit rambly…

I’ve been kind of… “out of it”… mentally the last couple of days.  I’ve been reading, but I’m having a hard time really gathering my thoughts in a coherent manner.  I’m going to give it a shot, though.  But be warned: I might go off on a tangent.  It happens.
I keep going back and [...]

I’m not really sure how to take this.

After reading several blog posts and comments from around the fatosphere regarding fat women whose husbands actually love them because of their bodies and not in spite of them, it led me to wondering.  Where does my own husband stand?  I really didn’t know.
So about ten minutes ago, I gathered up the courage to ask [...]

The Sleeper Has Awoken

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens.  The sleeper must awaken. 
~Frank Herbert (Dune)
I’ve mentioned before the things I’m starting to notice, now that my focus isn’t on hating my body and myself because of my body.  I have yet another thing to add to the list.
This is going to sound really whacked, but [...]

The self-perpetuating fatness theory.

I had to go into town today to do some shopping, and I decided to walk.  What better way to get my exercise for the day in, especially when I knew I’d be there for quite some time? 
While walking there, I started thinking.  And I came to some revelations… I think.
I haven’t changed [...]