Archive for the 'Plus Size Life' Category
Monday, April 5th, 2010
NAAFA Scholarship For Aspiring Plus Size Fashion Designers
Just a little while ago I had launched my twhirl account and was looking through my posts on twitter for the day. I saw a tweet about NAAFA giving away a $1000 scholarship for aspiring plus size fashion designers so there was no way that I could ignore that and not post about it. If you don’t know what NAAFA is, it stands for the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance. I think it is worthwhile to spread the news about something like this for my readers as it is directly related to what we talk about here. So if you are considering a career path in fashion design and are going to be focusing on the plus size side of things, you may want to consider applying for their scholarship award. You can do so at the following site NAAFA Plus Size Fashion Scholarship.
Sunday, February 28th, 2010
Plus Size Discrimination
This is just a video I recorded this morning about my feelings over these things in the media recently. It’s sort of a continuation of my previous post.
Saturday, February 27th, 2010
My Obesity Is A Burden To You?
All I’ve got to say about this is, how do you figure? I don’t generally write about debated topics like this and I try to just remain positive and focus on making the best of what I’ve got. I have never hidden the fact that I believe that if someone wants to have Gastric Bypass or Lapband or any other sort of procedure that will aid as a tool in them losing weight, they have every right to do so. I support anyone who makes the decision to change their body and health.
I do not support companies that would have you believe that their unregulated by the FDA “drugs” are going to cure your obesity. I am fully aware of the elevated risks of type 2 diabetes developing among fat people. I am not one of the people in the fat community that goes around saying fat is good and fat is where it’s at and skinny bitches are just mad etc… However, I am aware that I am a very large woman with A LOT of adipose tissue on my body. I realize that I am someone with food issues. I am also someone who has done the diet thing, and done the exercise and eating right thing, and the Alli thing, and the Meridia thing. I’ve also done the binge purge thing. Got five teeth missing in the back of my head thanks to the binging and purging I did from the time I was seventeen till about twenty one, twenty two.
Why did I do this? Well because everyone else told me I should lose weight. My entire life I was told I should lose weight. I was put on Weight Watchers at ten years old. I dealt with strangers, and family members telling me I was too fat, calling me names, and verbally and mentally abusing me my entire life. This all from the people who were doing this because they “loved me”. I have faced humiliation, discrimination, and have been physically assaulted because I am fat. So what I want to know at the end of the day is, who and when did anyone decide that anyone else has the right to tell me what to do with my body or to abuse me and discriminate against me because I have too much fat on my body?
I think people who feel that fat people should be taxed are out of their damn minds. I watched Bill Maher last week and I like him a lot, however I was sorely disappointed at him and everyone on his panel all making fat jokes and agreeing that we should be fined and should be humiliated on a flight if someone else deems us as too big to sit in a seat without having to buy an extra seat. I really wonder if the government were to tell Wanda Sykes she was going to be double fined for being African-American and gay if she would be behind being taxed based on your genetic make up? And just to set something straight here, I have nothing against race or sexual orientation. I’m using it to illustrate a point. Discrimination is not ok in this country UNLESS the person is FAT.
For the record to all the people who feel they are the authority on fat people and how we are costing them billions of dollars, that they carry the burden of the cost of what our weight does to increase health-care costs. Oh I’m sorry, I missed the part where people were having their taxes raised because I ate a doughnut this year. Are you fucking kidding me? Fact is, nobody knows where their tax money goes, it’s all bullshit propaganda that people who are openly discriminant against fat people use to try and argue their point. I have not had the need to go to a doctor in eight and a half years, only recently having to go to the E.R. and a couple of physicians for severe allergic outbreaks of chronic hives. Still, it’s not a fat related disease. Prior to that, I really didn’t need to go to a doctor for any fat related illness, I only went for routine visits because I actually had coverage when I was employed full-time outside of my home. Every since I have become self-employed my choices are be denied health-care insurance by most of the major insurance companies OR, pay upwards to $500-$600 per month to get put into a high risk pool. So I don’t want to hear shit about I cost anyone anything because of my weight. I am the only person who is burdened by the excess poundage I carry and everyone else can mind their own business about what I do with my life.
What I have finally come to the conclusion about the abuse we get from society is because of our own self-loathing that we abuse ourselves with internally everyday that we bombard ourselves with. Telling ourselves that we are less deserving of many of the things that “regular” society feels they are only privileged to have. Once the self-abuse stops, then the rest will stop on the outside. Until then, why don’t people start fighting to have corporations and lobbies stopped and heavily fined? Why don’t people fight against companies who make things that kill us, like cigarettes, or genetically altered crops, or cloned beef, or corn-syrup laden processed foods that corps pay millions of dollars a year to brainwash our kids and us into wanting? How come the government taxed the smokers but not the criminals making the product to begin with? Why, because of lobbies and money. Why hasn’t the $85 billion dollar diet industry helped with the so called “burden” that fat people have created? They can’t because they are too busy lining their own pockets off of the people who hate themselves enough to buy the shit they sell.
Be beautiful, accept yourself, LOVE YOURSELF! Most importantly, tell everyone else to fuck off and mind their own damn business.
Friday, December 18th, 2009
Last Minute Plus Size Door Buster Sales
Hey gals, I just wanted to let you all know that Macy’s and Fashion Bug are extending last minute door buster sales so you can squeeze in some extra savings before the Christmas arrives. If you need to get any last minute gifts you can save an extra 15-20% from Macy’s and get FREE shipping on all orders.
Get an extra 20% Off and Free Shipping at macy’s.com! Enter promo code THEBEST at checkout. Valid 12-20-2009 through 12-21-2009.
Fashion Bug has a sale running right now like $10 pants and jackets and $5 tops! Plus you can still get things delivered by before Christmas.
I recorded a video last night about my personal feelings about size acceptance and what it means to me at this point in my life. I have come to realize that force feeding anything down people’s throats who don’t want to accept us for who we are is perfectly fine for me. Having recently been reminded of how much I love being an individual who has the freedom to make my own personal choices, this got me to thinking about knowing when to pick and choose your battles wisely and carefully. BBW and BHM are always going to be here and there are always going to be people who don’t like us and feel that we should not have the right to dress how we want to dress or have the kind of lifestyles that we aspire to.
I say that it’s time we just carve out our own niche and create our own Big lifestyle t aspire to that has nothing to do with anything that isn’t positive and willing to celebrate every size. We are talented, beautiful and we have money to spend just like everyone else. There is no reason why we should not be able to achieve status like anyone else. We just need someone to create it for us so we can go out and grab our share of the pie. I will be waiting designers and I hope that you deliver and deliver big!
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
Weight Loss Product – The Cookie Diet
I recently decided to give the cookie diet a try. This is something that I had been told about by my mother as she had seen it several times on various TV shows. I decided to give this a try and to see whether or not it delivers what it promises. I know this blog is about plus size and putting your best foot forward at whatever size we are at, however I do not feel there is anything wrong with wanting to be a smaller size for whatever reasons I have for wanting to be so. I realize that many other people in the plus size community would disagree and I’m not really here to make anyone happy except for myself.
If you are someone who is looking for something that will work for you than you might want to watch my review of it. If you feel just fine in your skin and don’t have a pound to lose then you may wish to skip over it. That’s the beauty of having 100% over our own choices. I hope you find what I have to say useful for you.
