I started a new tumblr for those of us who want to share how we foster wellness in our lives. There have been a few tumblrs who claim to be shame free fitness blogs but still allow for weight loss and diet talk to happen. I’m hoping this will give people the space to see how other people move their bodies and allow for everyone to share how they move theirs.
As of January 2012 this blog has been renamed from Communications of a Fat Waitress to Fat Body Politics for a few reasons. The simplest is that I am no longer a waitress, and the larger picture is that this blog is more about the politics of living in a fat body or being a fat person that it has ever been about myself. I want to expand past my own experience.
Very soon Love Your Body Detroit will be found at loveyourbodydetroit.com, until then catch up with us at our facebook (Linked above). I will also be blogging via tumblr at FatBodyPolitics.tumblr.com.
-Amanda-
Over 6 years ago I started this blog. With that has come my own personal growth into fat rights as an activist and with me founding Love Your Body Detroit. While the posting schedule has been chaotic at best this has been the place where I was able to unleash my thoughts and ideas about the movement. This blog is going to be in transition over the next few days as I am changing the name and reorganizing my web presence. Love Your Body Detroit is going to have its own website as soon as possible, which means the current tumblr account will be connected with this blog, my twitter account will change names as well.
If you are a reader of this blog, it isn’t going anywhere and I am not either. I want a name that I feel fits my mindset as I have taken a drastically different direction in my life over the past few years. If you want to make sure you continue to get updates, subscribe on the right. Everything goes live by Monday, possibly sooner.
-Amanda-
Over the past few days Marilyn Wann has been creating posters of different fat activists to respond to Georgia’s Strong4Life campaign. They are amazing and everyone photographed has chosen their own tagline to go with each poster.
From her tumblr she wrote,
Stand4Kids
Here’s my response to the fat-hating ads in Georgia. Please reblog! I want the world to know that I stand up to weight bullies!
If you want to Stand4Kids too, send me your photo and we’ll create an ad about what you STAND for, so you can tell the world. ALSO:Join the Facebook group, here, and learn about the project to buy a real billboard in Georgia!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/344255848935079/
Made by Ragen Chastain from Dance with Fat (More info about the video at the link). A response to the Australian Biggest Loser ad campaign. To view the original video click here, but should come with a trigger warning. Happy I was able to be involved with this video.
Be sure to register and check out the Body Love Revolutionaries Telesummit that starts on January 31st with Marilyn Wann, Peggy Howell and me talking about activism. It is going to be amazing. For more information about the summit, how to register and about all of the speakers go to http://www.bodyloverevolution.com/
Also check out the facebook event page.
Here is the complete schedule!
Activism — Tuesday, January 31st at 8PM EST with Peggy Howell (NAAFA), Amanda Levitt (Love Your Body Detroit), Marilyn Wann (Fat!So?)
Health — Thursday, February 2nd at 7PM EST with Linda Bacon (Health At Every Size book), Ragen Chastain (Dances With Fat)
Fatshion — Tuesday, February 7th at 8PM EST with Marie Denee (Curvy Fashionista) , Rachel Kacenjar (Cupcake & Cuddlebunny), Yuliya Raquel (Igigi)
Sex — Thursday, February 9th at 8PM EST with Hanne Blank (Big, Big Love), Virgie Tovar (Guide To Fat Girl Living)
Blogging —Thursday, February 16th at 8PM EST with Marianne Kirby (Lessons From The Fatosphere), Margitte Leah Kristjansson (Fat Body (In)Visible), and Brian Stuart (Red No. 3 Blog)
Fitness — Tuesday, February 21st at 8PM EST with Jeanette DePatie (The Fat Chick Works Out), Anna Guest-Jelley (Curvy Yoga)
Fatness/Queerness — Thursday, February 23rd at 3PM Eastern with Bevin Branlandingham (Queer Fat Femme), Charlotte Cooper (Obesity Timebomb), Jessica Jarchow (Tangled Up In Lace)
Politics/History — Tuesday February 28th at 8PM Eastern with Paul Campos (Obesity Myth), Amy Erdman Farrell (Fat Shame)
We often think of New Year’s Resolutions as a chance to make up or change the things we didn’t like about the year before. This is normally directed at ourselves since most resolutions focus on how we can change who we are by making ourselves better. Living in a body that you hate, due to your weight or any other reason that you want to change it, normally leads you to enter the New Year down a path filled with self destructive behaviors that in the end do more harm than good.
Learning to love ones self or have a healthier relationship with your body can be a really positive way to start the year if you are not doing it from a negative place. One of the best ways that this can be found if you find yourself wanting to diet is to do the exact opposite and ditch dieting. A health movement that has become part of the forefront of the fat rights movement is Health at Every Size. This is in so many ways one of the simplest ways to not only have a better connection with your body, especially if you have or still are suffering through disordered eating patterns or weight loss attempts. This is about finding that connection with your body that is lost during weight loss attempts that create an inner conflict between your body and your mind.
This was the last step that I needed to finding complete happiness within myself. Learning to listen to my body instead of listening to others about how I should take care of myself was the tipping point to finding what I was looking for. This means finding joy in moving my body, eating intuitively or listening to hunger cues and knowing what I need to nourish my body while feeling good living in it. This means having a connection that stops denying the body I live in.
Basic Principles of Health At Every Size®
From the Association for Size, Diversity and Health
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