tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425030288963774520.post6914110938882060635..comments2023-06-03T07:04:14.438-07:00Comments on Hamlet's Mistress: On fat acceptance, self-worth and plus-size clothing companies...Hamlet's Mistresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11365711349960256915noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425030288963774520.post-86762256459164981062010-09-10T16:21:15.000-07:002010-09-10T16:21:15.000-07:00I'm... torn over the whole FA thing. It feels...I'm... torn over the whole FA thing. It feels like being for it means I can't want to improve my HEALTH (yes, including weight loss). Now, I know a lot of the FA proponents out there would argue that point with me and say that I most certainly can be an advocate and work on my health, but that's not the overall *feeling* I get from the majority of stuff I've read out there. Like you, I'm NOT content to have a sore back, for my knees to crack when I walk, to be out of breath when I get to the top of the stairs, and NO ONE gets to tell me that I *should* be okay with that.<br><br>As for the exercise thing? It's HARD. Honestly, I rarely *want* to work out, but I know if I want to increase my fitness and improve my health, I *have* to do it. For me, that means making time, telling myself I want to do it, and pretending to enjoy it (at the very least, I can tell you that I feel like a freaking rockstar when I'm finished). Basically I try to look at it as something I do to take care of myself, like relaxing in a bath (not *quite* the same, I know, but I tell myself what I have to in order to get off my ass). Unfortunately, sometimes it's a matter of choosing the... lesser of two evils, I guess? <br><br>And the plus size clothing thing is RIDIC.Chibi Jeebshttp://chibiwants.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425030288963774520.post-82412812753328275232010-09-10T16:31:22.000-07:002010-09-10T16:31:22.000-07:00YES!! That's how I feel when I read some of t...YES!! That's how I feel when I read some of the FA blogs. I have a friend who is on the FA bandwagon hard core and I don't feel like I can talk to her about weight loss stuggles anymore because I just get "that's why I don't do it anymore" instead of the dialogue we used to have. And my husband HAS lost weight. 135lbs. He gained about 50 back but he's still way ahead of the game and his answer is always the same. Exercise. And yes, thank you, I know that. But for me I think it really has come down to being too scared to fail AGAIN and thus just not starting again because I don't want to fail again. When I fail at losing weight IS the ONLY time my weight does have an impact on my self worth. I always see it as a failure to follow through on something which to me, in my eyes, is a character flaw of mine so I definitely get all judge mentally of myself about it. So between my husband and my friend, I feel like I have no one to communicate with this about and that just makes it so much harder.hamletsmistresshttp://hamletsmistress.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425030288963774520.post-19540409779214755332010-09-12T04:56:32.000-07:002010-09-12T04:56:32.000-07:00Same feeling arises with me. Such that I am very f...Same feeling arises with me. Such that I am very fat and it seems to be burden on me also. But now I am trying to reduce that.Fat Loss 4 Idiotshttp://www.fatlossdiet4idiots.net/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425030288963774520.post-79153702131252580592010-09-12T11:08:36.000-07:002010-09-12T11:08:36.000-07:00Good luck!!Good luck!!hamletsmistresshttp://hamletsmistress.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com