/me applauds dustinzgirl
I could NOT agree more!
You know what? God made people ALL different sizes and shapes and colors. Fuck what the media says. If you are HEALTHY it doesn't matter a DAMN. You can be what is considered by some as "overweight" and not have high blood pressure, high cholestorol (sp*), or any other health problem even. OR....even is you aren't perfectly healthy....some people smoke. That's not healthy EITHER. Why is it we always pick on people who are overweight? What a bunch of CRAP.
Both of my parents are overweight and I KNOW how much emotional pain that has caused my mother at times. My father ADORES her. He could not care less. But because other people have been mean to her, she has cried rivers of tears over it. Well that is a bunch of bullshit.
I, personally think, that we should all just work harder at being emotionally healthy about how we feel about ourselves AS WE ARE (not as we are NOT), and then work on ourselves from there. You can't really change until you accept and love yourself where you ARE. If you try to....the changes will be fleeting, because they won't be motivated out of self-love, but out of self-loathing. And changes that are not motivated out of love, are destined to fail, because even once you are thinner, you will still find things about yourself that you "hate" and then you will sabotage yourself.
You have to accept and love yourself the way you ARE before you can be any OTHER way.
Don't believe me? Ask a shrink. I've had YEARS of therapy....I know. LMAO