Category: Mental health
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Importance of Sleep
2 comments on Importance of SleepSo far today I have: Woken up with a headache. Repeatedly bumped into the bed while getting dressed. Forgot my yoga bag when leaving for work. Forgot to use my inhaler before going for a walk. I am also feeling generally run down, achey, and lacking in patience/cope. Also in monster need of a nap. Am I sick? No. I didn’t get enough sleep…
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Big Fat Pleasures
“Sex is fun and pleasure is good for you” – I first read this in a book on relationships and thought that was a great idea … well, in theory at least. Or maybe for other people. I was fat, after all, so sex partners are hard to find, right? And I still wasn’t all that sure I really deserve pleasure. That was over 10 years ago. …
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A Few Quotes
These are quotes that have stuck with me lately, so I thought I’d share. “[E]ven extremely obese women still have a longer life expectancy than normal-weight men.” — Paul Ernsberger, Ph.D. “Yet, we are not being inundated with scares about the deadliness of being male, millions aren’t spent to eradicate maleness, and men make up a fraction of bariatric patients.” — Sandy Szwarc, BSN, RN, CCP (commenting…
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Minnesota Starvation Experiment
When a healthy, normal-weight person loses 25% of his body mass and looks emaciated, we see it as semi-starvation. When a healthy fat person loses 25% of her body mass and still looks fat, we see it as, “Oh, well, you still have more to lose” — even though the affect on mental health and metabolism may still be the same.
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Surfing the web…
… and the web ads. Jillian Michaels Ad: How Much Do You Want To LOSE? Me: Do I have to? I mean, our retirement savings are down 33% already! The really annoying ones are the flash animations. Remember the woman who would “shrink” over and over and over and over? I kept running into that one on Yahoo! Mail. I found the distraction maddening. (See also: annoying…
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Living Fat in a Thin World
I have built a life I enjoy, and I choose not to dwell on the rampant societal disapproval every minute of every day. Yes, I know it’s there. Yes, I think it’s unjust and unfair that people are fired or mistreated for being fat. Yes, I think the War On Obesity is a stupid waste of resources. If I didn’t care, I wouldn’t have started this blog.…
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Deciding how to feel
“You know kids, nobody can ‘make you’ feel anything. — You do know that right?” (they look confused). “No, seriously,” I say, “ You can be, if you choose, in control of your feelings. Nobody can make you angry, nobody can make you sad, unless you want to be.” They scoff, and without fail, one of them says, “My parents make me angry” — or even better…
Living ~400lbs 