Queensize!

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Next time, on Sick, Sad World, body issues! Maybe you already read the fabulous Chiara (amperlj if you like reminders, or you can subscribe to her handy email notification list) or maybe you saw triath plugging this entry about body issues, but if you don't or you haven't, you totally should. It will make you better appreciate the following lines from a Marie Claire article entitled "Anatomy of a Pigout":

Be aware that friendship is a dieter's enemy. A study by Pennsylvania State University found when people ate among friends or family, they consumed about 50 percent more than if they were alone or among strangers...

Oh my friends and random LiveJournal readers, let it be known that I will gladly be your diet's very worst enemy except or until the word "diet" means nothing more than the wonderful food you eat every day to sustain your fabulous body, which is a miracle plain and simple (both the simple existence of your body and the magic that is the way you literally are what you eat and when I say "you" I mean "all of us".)

And but so once upon a time pants_of_doom and I talked about creating something we wanted to call Queensize, or maybe Queenzsized, with the premise or slogan or subtitle "Take up some space". And Chiara's body post has me wanting to resurrect that project and that's where all you readers and friends come in again. If you've ever written or drawn or collaged or otherwise created anything about your body, or wanted to, I want to see it and/or read it and love it and share it with the world and maybe make a sexy print version of it because bookbinding is way fun. All you have to do is make something and share it with me and I will do the other stuff because that's what obsessive-compulsive tendencies are good for, yes? Yes.

Let's rock. queensized at gmail dot com.

And now the chamomile tea has kicked in and I MUST SLEEP. But write me if you want to play this fun creative game pretty please!

Comments

lines and tangents

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On unhealthy self-image vs. "sustaining your fabulous body":

• Our Trader Joe's has McCann's Quick and Easy Steel Cut Oats.
• What if the article that has you running on the treadmill and counting your carbs is not "Two Weeks to Thinner Thighs," but is "How to Clear Brain Fog and Reverse Memory Decline"?
• What if the reason you're telling yourself you shouldn't have that extra piece of fudge is not about an extra layer of fat, but because you're afraid if you eat like that your thyroid will burn out in a few more years and you'll end up with a nasty case of diabetes?
• What on earth is FAGE Total 0% yogurt?

Re: lines and tangents

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• Our Trader Joe's has 'em, too.


• It's all about finding a way to enjoy taking care of yourself, instead of making it an exercise in self-punishment and self-loathing. Personally, I think treadmills are for suck, but stationary bikes are a great place to read. So are them whacky elliptical machines, once you learn to keep your balance. It all adds up to good for my brain on lots of levels, to which I say yay! Also it means I get to keep rebelling against my mom's freaky dieting, which it turns out is pretty important to me.


• Again, my top diet priority is rebelling against my mom's freaky dieting and talking about everything in terms of weight lost or gained. That and being happy with myself instead of dwelling on how I'm already genetically predisposed to cancer and heart attacks and diabetes.


• I have no idea.