The Fat Positive Lounge

[Leigh]

Its truly amazing how people think that being fat is like one of the worst things ever ~ I can think of things WAY worse than having some extra meat on their bones *shakes head*

[1QuirkyKiwi]

Beauty and comfort within one's own skin does not come from a gym, a perfect hair day or mimicking models from fashion magazines..... It comes from inside and it is a constantly changing vision. I wake up in the morning, feeling sexy and sensuous. It feels ecstatically satisfying wiggling and sashaying my soft, plentiful, desirable curves. My more than attractive ample, full, soft, sensuous, voluptuously feminine body yearning to be caressed, squeezed, adored and worshipped.

Ideals in western culture are ridiculous, unattainable and very sad; impossibly svelte women whose skin appears to have been shrink-wrapped to their bones. These women appear to live a life where food cannot be enjoyed, made reachable, and that is not normal or healthy. They have to be underweight and famished. Aren't there enough people starving in the world? So why deliberately encourage this?

It’s time to enjoy our fuller figures again! It’s time to enjoy all figures and shapes. Let's honour, worship and enjoy womanhood, softness and roundness. A woman totally squashes her personality with the preoccupation of her weight; it's become an issue. A negative one!

There is a biological reason why women are supposed to have fuller figures. The female hormones cause fat to be stored on the hips, breasts, belly, bum and thighs; this acts as a protective measure in ensuring that there are enough reserves to continue nursing a child during lean times. Our bodies haven’t adapted to an abundance of food that we have today.

The fashion for thinness tends to be a phenomenon of modern-day Western society, although there has been a recent trend for women to under go cosmetic surgery to have buttock-implants, breast implants and calf implants thereby emulating a curvy figure; all of which nature has already provided.

[nycfem]

[1QuirkyKiwi]

Originally Posted by 1QuirkyKiwi

Beauty and comfort within one's own skin does not come from a gym, a perfect hair day or mimicking models from fashion magazines..... It comes from inside and it is a constantly changing vision. I wake up in the morning, feeling sexy and sensuous. It feels ecstatically satisfying wiggling and sashaying my soft, plentiful, desirable curves. My more than attractive ample, full, soft, sensuous, voluptuously feminine body yearning to be caressed, squeezed, adored and worshipped.

Ideals in western culture are ridiculous, unattainable and very sad; impossibly svelte women whose skin appears to have been shrink-wrapped to their bones. These women appear to live a life where food cannot be enjoyed, made reachable, and that is not normal or healthy. They have to be underweight and famished. Aren't there enough people starving in the world? So why deliberately encourage this?

It’s time to enjoy our fuller figures again! It’s time to enjoy all figures and shapes. Let's honour, worship and enjoy womanhood, softness and roundness. A woman totally squashes her personality with the preoccupation of her weight; it's become an issue. A negative one!

There is a biological reason why women are supposed to have fuller figures. The female hormones cause fat to be stored on the hips, breasts, belly, bum and thighs; this acts as a protective measure in ensuring that there are enough reserves to continue nursing a child during lean times. Our bodies haven’t adapted to an abundance of food that we have today.

The fashion for thinness tends to be a phenomenon of modern-day Western society, although there has been a recent trend for women to under go cosmetic surgery to have buttock-implants, breast implants and calf implants thereby emulating a curvy figure; all of which nature has already provided.

***This was part of an article I'd written about 5 or 6 years ago for an online BBW magazine. Here's another exert from that article...

In Te reo Maori the word Puku means; belly, uterus/womb. Kopu means womb wisdom, belly laughs, gut feelings, and pelvic power. For women embracing the centre of their bodies and celebrating the wisdom of their feminine nature. Embracing the wisdom from ancient cultures and our fore Mothers of ages ago.

Voluptuous, curvy BBWs in tropical countries are regarded as feminine, fertile, desirable and sexy to name a few qualities. In Polynesian, African and some Asian cultures, round bellies are a more sexually desirable attribute than big breasts. In recent years the excessive pursuit of western fashions for small female body size may have longer term detrimental effects in Polynesian and African women.

The Japanese say: "Hara de kangaenasai." Which literally translates as: “Please think with your belly.” In the west the phrase is: “Trust your gut.” Hara; gut, belly: Whether we’re speaking English or Japanese, the body’s centre is home to our centre of being. It’s the oracle already situated inside us. A woman's belly is sexy! A woman's belly in the morning light is sexier!

The Laughing Buddha is based on a wandering Chinese monk, Budai (Hotei, in Japanese) who lived centuries ago and was believed to be the “Buddha to come”. The statue’s plump figure has been described to suggest contentment, magnanimity and plenitude. Folklore has it that rubbing his pot belly brings good fortune and wealth.
But he’s more than just a good luck charm favoured by Chinese restaurateurs and businessmen. The Laughing Buddha’s big belly is a symbol of tolerance; also, that prosperity and wealth can go hand-in-hand with enlightened awareness.