The Fat Positive Lounge

[Soft*Silver]

I hope I am allowed to do this..if not, please just delete this post. I dont want to break policy but I was hoping to offer my FB page for the store to those on BFP.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003486122806

[LeftWriteFemme]

[Soft*Silver]

I started bringing fixtures into the store. And a cash register. And signage. And mannequins. Oh lord. It is now REAL.

Did i get a chance to measure? No. Too much happening at one time today for me to concentrate on measuring a wall. I feel like my head is going to explode, how different this reality is.

I am really lucky to have so many people supporting me in this adventure. The woman i got the fixtures from is giving them to me to use before I pay for them! BVR will cut her a check but rather than wait for it, she said to just take them. This allows me to get the place started months before it would if I had to wait for BVR gov to process stuff.

I am sitting in the dark in rose cottage, feeling content, watching the light disappear outside while I type out words to people across the world. Life is good...

[Soft*Silver]

I am about to head out to get more fixtures, two more loads for sure. Thank heavens the dually truck bed is huge!

My house is so tore up..clothes, boxes, packaging materials, candles, signages, vases, etc all over the place for the store. I am feeling pretty overwhelmed that my house will never be cleaned again. I am one of those people that has to have things in their place and nothing is in it and there are many things in here now that dont have a place! LOL

I am setting up a web page soon too. I will be listing my inventory piece by piece and offering them for sale so people long distance can buy as well. And, take part in our online events. I plan on hosting some pretty incredible events with speakers and activities. Time to get the gals together! I also have a blogger who is going to be posting called "Chubby Girl". I love her wit and sense of self! And people are also gonna be able to purchase either steam punk or moody romantic jewelry from me, from two incredible local artists!

Am I still the same girl who was curled up on the couch last year and feeling like I would never have a purpose again?

I have to share with you, that there was one person on BFP that never left my side, never gave up on me, always stayed close and always believed in me. Without his help, i dont know what I would have done. I love him so much,and always will. Our friendship is as deep and rich as any i have ever had in my life. Imma gonna put a cowboy hat in a doorway so he can always be part of the blessings of my new store...

[1QuirkyKiwi]

LOVING A BIG BEAUTIFUL WOMAN


I won't ever be ashamed to be seen with you.

I won't ever be embarrassed by your size.

I won't ever hide you away out of sight.

I won't ever find you unattractive at any weight.

I won't ever find you unattractive or anything less than sexy.

I won't ever allow others to put you down.

I won't ever tolerate you putting yourself down.

I won't ever take you where you can't be accommodated.

I won't ever let anyone show you disrespect.

I won't ever let a day go by without telling you how beautiful, loved and special you are.

[nycfem]

I listened to this again (Thanks LWF) and appreciate the scientific pov so much. We do much needless damage to our minds, bodies, and souls by focusing on dieting and weight loss instead of focusing on being healthy if we want to be healthy. Furthermore, fat is a feminist issue, and women spend so much time together critiquing ourselves and sharing exactly what we are eating to further our weight loss all day. I was reading this great article

http://www.oprah.com/spirit/How-One-...ve-Being-Fat/1

and thinking about how much time is lost to dieting, especially for women. This is supposed to be a feminist site and yet women are congratulated for losing weight, whether that method is healthy or not. Women, for instance, go long periods eating 800 calories a day or even eat 500 calories a day while injecting themselves with a pregnancy hormone. We "thank" them, as long as they are losing weight. One reason that I started this thread is because of how I see "weight loss" being substituted for "health," which may or may not have weight loss as a side effect. I find it easy myself to fall into the "thinspiration" perspective and all the petting that one receives confessing to being "bad" with eating and all the accolades one receives losing any amount of weight. I'm really trying not to these days. As a feminist, this is something I feel strongly about. I know this is not the prevailing view on this site and that this thread is not a popular one, but I deeply appreciate those who have read and contributed. It doesn't matter to me whether people who come here are thin or fat or whether they are on a diet or not on a diet. I just like that there is any interest at all in a perspective that even considers that in our patriarchal culture we perpetuate an anti-woman, anti-fat bias by focusing so much time and energy and celebration of weight loss which we all too easily equate with "health."

Originally Posted by LeftWriteFemme

[LeftWriteFemme]

[aishah]

i'm extremely grateful for nycfembbw & leftwritefemme's posts

nycfembbw, your post reminded me of this article...
http://healthateverysizeblog.wordpre...o-lose-weight/

it made me take a really hard look at myself and what i mean when i say i love my body.

[1QuirkyKiwi]

I saw this article about BMI and the increasing belief within the Medical profession, who are calling it the Baloney Mass Index, and think it’s out dated…

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/ar...t-results.html

I posted this in the Body-Positive: We Are ALL Worthy (no diet or weight-loss talk) thread in October last year… http://www.butchfemmeplanet.com/foru...&postcount=105

One of my best friends is only slightly over weight and is Diabetic and has high Blood Pressure and has had for many years. She’s younger than me by 4 years and yet is very active. When I told her my blood results and BP she jokingly told me I was terrible….. She also told me not to let those results go to my head in the belief I could eat junk foods and get away with it, lol!

I wonder, how much of this is me being vegan for nearly 30 years and how much is my Genetics…?!

[LeftWriteFemme]

Originally Posted by aishah

i'm extremely grateful for nycfembbw & leftwritefemme's posts

nycfembbw, your post reminded me of this article...
http://healthateverysizeblog.wordpre...o-lose-weight/

it made me take a really hard look at myself and what i mean when i say i love my body.

Great article!

It makes me think of my mom who lost 130 pounds a number of years ago and spends her life fighting the pounds that creep back. She reduces her food intake and increases her exercise and still those pounds will not go away and they consume her thoughts, her days and eliminate any possible happiness she might have over being thin because of just what the article says, that thin privilege is slipping away from her......it's so sad.

[LeftWriteFemme]

just saw this on facebook and though I'd post it here...I know, preaching to the choir