purplerabbits

This may not be helpful but… I think of you as someone who has a healthy approach to eating/dieting.

It’s a really emotive subject, especially for us lasses, because we are bombarded with so much stuff about it from every angle and then you add to that people feeling that they are absolutely entitled to make comments about our body size as part of everyday conversation, whether it be criticism (you are/this bit of you is bigger) or praise (you’re smaller). Then we have to deal with what’s in our own heads which might be conflicting thoughts one week or even one day after another. Some days I think I’d like to have Jennifer Aniston’s body, other days I’d like to say “Ha! Ha! Jennifer, you can never eat chips, can you? Perhaps if you worked out less you could concentrate on your acting more and then you wouldn’t be the least funny character in ‘Friends’”.

Today? Today I’d like to be able to calm down on the debate a bit. So in parting I will offer that I see the women who have contributed to discussion here, including yourself, as powerful people who’ve at various times done amazing and productive things and who I admire. What does that have to do with anything? Perhaps that we’re of so much more value for ourselves than for what we might weigh that we should at least allow ourselves to relax a little about it.

Disclaimer one – I said subject is emotive for women, but there are men I know who have issues with their weight also.

Disclaimer two – I do not claim to speak for all women when I talk about conflicting thought processes around body size.

Trish – backing against post with blindfold on and (candy) cigarette in mouth and waiting.