Well, it's taken me some time and get back to the "happy the way I am" and to the "I am not my size nor my weight thank you very much" mind-frame.
Being the lover of all things books and most things internet I googled it. I wanted to find books and websites that promoted a great body image/fat acceptance/I am fine just the way I am/I'm not dieting and you can't make me!
These are the books and websites I am using to relearn that I am awesome:
Books:
- Read My Hips: How I Learned to Love My Body Ditch Dieting and Live Large by Kim Brittingham
- Beautiful You: A Guide to Radical Self-Acceptance by Rosie Molinary
- Health at Every Size by Linda Bacon
- Madly in Love With Me by Christina Arylo
- Lessons from The Fat-O-Sphere: Quit Dieting and Declare a Truce with Your Body by Kate Harding and Marianne Kirby
- Two Whole Cakes: How to Stop Dieting and Learn to Love Your Body by Lesley Kinzel
Websites:
- The Perfection Deception : click here
- Already Pretty - Where Style Meets Body Image: click here
- Hour Glass and Class: click here
- More Of Me To Love: click here
- The Militant Baker: click here
- Rosie Molinary: click here
- BeauCoo: click here
- Twigs and Tea: click here
- Reluctant Femme: click here
- Grits and Moxie: click here
- Becky Bedbug: click here
- Little Chief Honeybee: click here
- Sex, Love, Liberation: click here
- Mara Glatzel: click here
- Fat Chicks Rule: click here
- Riots Not Diets: click here
"But....Kelly....you're not "fat"
You're right I am not .... not fat .... not skinny ....somewhere in the middle
What my brain sees in the mirror is not reality - it's distorted by years of dieting, of accepting the advertisers and media's lies about who I really am and how if I just lost x amount of weight my life would be a fairy tale. THEY DON'T KNOW ME!
I want my brain, my heart, my soul to know that if I weighed more than I do now - that's that is absolutely 100% fabulously amazingly awesomely wonderfully A OK.
Because ALMOST EVERYTHING out there tells me [and YOU] differently. That we are not ok. That life will begin 5 or 10 or 50 or 100 pounds from now. AND THEY ARE WRONG. Life is RIGHT NOW and it's up to you and I to make our own lives a great adventure.
Wear what you want. Be who you want to be. Take back your life and your body from those who don't even know you and really just want to make a buck off you.
~K
