Body Size Liberation (Warning: Nude Photos)

[Project Willow]

^^ I just wanted to say that I hear you, and I am sorry for your struggles.

A friend of mine was on a bus and sitting next to an overweight woman when another young woman got on and sat in front of them. At some point the young woman turned around and started berating the overweight woman. My friend, who is an absolute angel, confronted the attacker, got the rest of the riders involved, and ended up forcing the attacker woman off the bus.

This is the climate these days. It is so destructive. It's always been bad, but over the last half decade, there seems to be a new level of permissiveness when it comes to openly deriding people for their weight.

[DrEvil]

Agreed. The focus on the "perfect" body today is insane. It's why the word "fashion" sends me into a blind rage.
Personally I'm at the other end of the spectrum, as in, skinny as hell. My metabolism is through the roof, so I can't put on weight, no matter how hard I try, and I'm getting pretty damn sick of people commenting on it ("Why don't you put on some weight?", "Why don't you just eat properly?", etc.), so I can't even imagine what it's like if you're overweight.
The sad fact is that most people are fucking idiots, incapable of actually thinking about the issue, or they just can't be bothered. They go with the herd, and the herd says that the correct body type is only found in Photoshop.

[JackRiddler]

I googled Annie Aronburg after seeing in the Webb thread that it's not a real person's name. (Where are you, Annie?)

Do it! Especially if you've never even heard of Henry Darger.

So I looked for an image of how this child rebel might have been depicted and right away got distracted by one from this thread. (Men!!!) Posted by our Annie Aronburg.



Mmmmm hot. That is all.

[JackRiddler]

By the way, I see my last post on this thread was TWO YEARS AGO, September 2011. My my time and all that.

Since then I've reduced my weight by about 45-50 pounds. All of that since last summer, in fact. Doesn't change anything I think about these matters. I do feel great, physically, and man do more goils talk longer to me now than they did before. I've gotten strict with myself and it's proved easy and enjoyable. Well, that's true for me, it doesn't mean it works for everyone. I've become horribly vain - last chance I guess, maybe 10 years of sex appeal left if I'm lucky. I had to give away all of my pants and the new ones no longer fit, either. I still wear a belt that was already too big when I was fat, so I had to use the last hole. Now I take every excuse to whip it out to show people 12+ inches worth of extra holes I've made it in it myself. What's interesting is how many people get awed by that. They've really gotta know the secret. Not too many are thrilled when I tell them to just eat half of the total crap you're eating right now, we live in a land of overabundance and overconsumption, at least with regard to quantity of food, if not quality. During the day I eat fruits, nuts and yogurts and have a salad with some dead animal on it in the evening. But I eat anything I like in addition if the craving persists for long enough. Yes, I do exercise a great deal compared to before, and that's gotten much easier. And I quit smoking for 2 two-month periods while continuing to lose weight. Anyway, I've sort of got a pre-girlfriend and she is gloriously opulent. (Opulent is the size above Plus but one below Rubenesque.)

Also, this:

A Dept store in Sweden introduced these normal-size mannequins. Instead of size 00, these gals are a size 12 and 16. Some are saying they "condone obesity." Pfft, the average woman is a size 14. "LIKE" and "SHARE" this picture if you think mannequins should look like this in store.

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[elfismiles]

Congrats Jack!

Self-discipline has never been my strong-suit but I love hearing about it in others when there are such positive results.

By the way, I see my last post on this thread was TWO YEARS AGO, September 2011. My my time and all that.

Since then I've reduced my weight by about 45-50 pounds. All of that since last summer, in fact. Doesn't change anything I think about these matters. I do feel great, physically, and man do more goils talk longer to me now than they did before. I've gotten strict with myself and it's proved easy and enjoyable. Well, that's true for me, it doesn't mean it works for everyone. I've become horribly vain - last chance I guess, maybe 10 years of sex appeal left if I'm lucky. I had to give away all of my pants and the new ones no longer fit, either. I still wear a belt that was already too big when I was fat, so I had to use the last hole. Now I take every excuse to whip it out to show people 12+ inches worth of extra holes I've made it in it myself. What's interesting is how many people get awed by that. They've really gotta know the secret. Not too many are thrilled when I tell them to just eat half of the total crap you're eating right now, we live in a land of overabundance and overconsumption, at least with regard to quantity of food, if not quality. During the day I eat fruits, nuts and yogurts and have a salad with some dead animal on it in the evening. But I eat anything I like in addition if the craving persists for long enough. Yes, I do exercise a great deal compared to before, and that's gotten much easier. And I quit smoking for 2 two-month periods while continuing to lose weight. Anyway, I've sort of got a pre-girlfriend and she is gloriously opulent. (Opulent is the size above Plus but one below Rubenesque.)

[JackRiddler]

Thank you elfis but I've given you the wrong impression. The only self-discipline I've achieved has been in eating and exercise, and only because of the discovery that it was pleasurable (at least in my case) to do less of one and more of the other. And this was due to luck (I am healthy despite bad lifestyle at times, like smoking and partying) and circumstances (it's helped with or really been compelled by a kind of emotional crisis). My life remains a mess and it's still so due to a lack of discipline over how I spend my time and inability to resist pressures and temptations that others do resist. Not that things have not got better or I'm not counting my blessings.

[LilyPatToo]

Really glad not to see any of the weird snarky disapproval here that I got in Real Life back when I dropped 50 lbs. Some of my friends self-identify as body size activists and as long as I was overweight I was cool. But when I got a diabetes diagnosis in 2004 and decided to try to lose weight, I was unexpectedly cold-shouldered by women who (I thought) had been good friends for many years. I was made to feel that I'd "betrayed the cause" when I absolutely hadn't and now I wonder how much of that happens these days?

I've kept the weight off and switched to online activism on the subject--you'll get email notices of petitions once you've found one and signed it. And, like Jack, I discovered that moving my body feels better than letting it stay at rest, so it's not like it's that hard to keep walking/going to the gym when I feel so much better (and my arthritic joint pains have almost disappeared). The diabetic diet takes care of most of my former tendency to gobble carbs, but I still resent having to take a 3 mile brisk walk now and then to be able to indulge in a scone or a beer

LilyPat

[JackRiddler]

Thanks for that LilyPat. It deserves a longer answer, but thanks!!!