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"Why would you do that, you don't need to lose weight."I kid you not. Spoken to me by another grad student. I was telling a story about calling one of those 800 numbers, "Lose TONS of weight FAST," sings posted on street poles around my city. To clarify, I didn't call because I thought that the sign actually held the key to weight loss. I called because I'm nosy and bored and when I see signs like that I can't wait to get home and call. So I did. The voicemail told me to send 20 bucks and a SASE to a particular address. Totally, I did. Weeks later, I get my SASE back in the mail. Inside, a simple note:
Cut Off Your Head.
Now tell me that fat people do not face discrimination.
So I was recounting this story over beers last night. And the guy next to me said the aforementioned comment.
He didn't know me "before."
Also offers further proof that my body image is screwy.
Or he was drunk and desparate.
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Saturday: run, 9 miles. Kicking run. Little walking. In the pouring rain. Most of the other runners out there were women. Which leads me to guess two things: 1) we rock. 2) we're nuts
Sunday: ran 9 miles. By "ran" I mean walked a lot. My legs were pretty dead. But the freaking sun was out for the first time in days. I wanted to be outside. Yoga. Amazing.
posted by chaos @ 7:55 PM
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Nine miles in the pouring rain? Nice work! You missed your calling, woman, you should have been a Marine DI. :-)
"Or he was drunk and desparate".
Ok. This calls for drastic action. I think you should set up an anti negative thoughts plan. Here's the idea: everytime you say something negative about yourself you have to give a dollar to an organization you don't like. In your case, I suggest the Republican party. :-)
Hey Liz - that's an incredible story. I'd be siccing the fat avengers on those people, man! But anyways, as someone who doesn't know you and doesn't know what you look like, 165# doesn't sound fat. It sounds like the average weight, or perhaps a little under average weight, for an American adult woman. For me, I was skinny at 160#. I'm not talking Kate Moss skinny, but for me, that was a perfectly good weight. I could easily buy vintage clothes at that weight (which was what my life revolved around at that time). So me thinks that you probably aren't seeing yourself as others are.
are you serious? you paid the $20 for that note?
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