Legos In My Pocket: FatKid

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Thursday, August 11, 2011

I'm being eaten alive...

I'm so nervous. In exactly 5 hours I will be at my first doctors appointment since it happened. (Which, in case your also in the same lovely PST mindset.. is WAY to soon.) I'm NEVER going to get to sleep. So ofcourse, my solution is to blog. I've been slacking on my blog so much... just haven't felt the want. I have nothing to write. I even tried to sit down and schedule out my photo challenges for my photography blog PocketMemories like I used to. That lasted all but 3 days. I just CANNOT shake this funk I'm in! I don't know what is going on... But it's SERIOUSLY pissing me off! So here I sit. Waiting. Watching the minutes slowly tick by while DYING to eat the delicious cookies Danielle made earlier this evening... Oh Yea, Forgot to mention, that because of this very important doctors appt, & all of the awesomely amazing tests that they are going to run, I have to fast for the 12 hours beforehand. That means NOTHING BUT WATER till after my 9am appt. SERIOUSLY??? The fatkid inside me is not pleased. She's actually quite livid at this moment. She keeps loudly threatening with growls & small twinges of nausea... & I just keep giving her more water. I swear she's going to eat me from the inside out. & of course my luck would have it that even though I'm not due to start my "lovely lady time" for another week & a half... and I'm pretty regular with THAT schedule, it would figure that I start to spot a few hours ago. If I actually START, I'm going to be more than pissy.. seeing as I haven't been to see my Doc in at least four years.. so this HAS to happen tomorrow... lady time or not. wonderful. So my dear friends, If I don't get to update you later on how things went, & you do not hear from me again after this, it is because I have died from starvation or embarrassment... or, my fat kid finally gave up & ate me.

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Sunday, February 6, 2011

Plus size models = low self esteem?

According to a new Arizona State University study, when women see a PLUS sized model in an ad or a commercial, instead of this making us feel good about ourselves, because we can relate, it actually LOWERS our self esteem. Making us feel WORSE about he way we think of ourselves.

Are they serious?

How can FINALLY looking at women who are NORMAL sizes make me feel worse about MYSELF?! Its when I'm looking at the chicks in the magazines who are skinnier than even THEY are (since it been PROVEN that almost ALL magazines photo-shop & edit their pictures.) that I start feel self critical. Why can't I just start losing weight the way I want so i can fit into that shirt like that? Cause if I'm anything, i AM a realist, and I know DAMN well that shirt aint gonna look like THAT on me.

Thats why when I read “We believe it is unlikely that many brands will gain market share by using heavy models in their ads,” says Naomi Mandel, marketing associate professor in the W. P. Carey School of Business at ASU, I literally get heated. seriously?? What skinny ass chick thinks that this is true?? and if this is REALLY how you feel, "plus sized' or not, do you not realize that you ONLY feel that way because that's how we have been CONDITIONED to think because of ads with SKINNY ASS CHICKS playing NORMAL PEOPLE? really ladies.. lets think about this!

If more companies continue to follow suit by using more normal or plus sized models, the way that people think of the way we look WILL change!

Whats sad, is most women would probably not even THINK that they feel WORsE after seeing a plus-sized model... until its shoved in their face this way, with reasons and statistics showing them that its how so many OTHER women are feeling, so why don't you?

its ridiculous.

I'm not going to tell you to love yourself for who you are. you have to come to that conclusion yourself. but what i WILL say is don't let SOCIETY tell you how you should look, be, or FEEL. They already tell us what we should wear, that we NEED to be successful & self sufficient (not that I'm against any of this) but if we allow society to tell us how we are supposed to FEEL.. what do we have left that WE control??