"Do not fear ordering that salad tonight, you are trying to eat healthy, yes girl do not order that sugar packed fruit cocktail tonight go for the water" LOL this is the pep talk I give myself as I walk into the restaurant. Heck I am adopting the words I saw today on pinterest (I posted the picture just so you can see what I am talking about). Pity the words did not prove true in my case!
Ok fear shut up and let me order the chicken schnitzel stuffed with creamed spinach! "hmmm what am I drinking? Ok go for the water this time, compromise" lol well let's just say I ordered a cola tonic to cut this embarrassing story short.
I know a lot of fuller figured women who eat bad food because they feel it is expected of them. To them eating healthy is for people trying to lose weight. When we sit down and consider all the harmful ingredients in these greasy meals we have to make a change and start living our normal lives and not what is expected of us by society.
Seeing a fuller figured person having a big greasy meal in public may disgust a lot of people (even though some of them will never admit this) but to them it makes sense, but a big person having a salad and drinking water is as strange to them as Bill Gates holding a "Jobless and Need Food" sign on the side of the road!
What I am trying to get at here is that we need to geet rid of all the fears that hold us back as plus sized people. You have a right to a healthy and long life just as much as the next person so do not sabortage yourself by stuffing your face with unhealthy food because you convinced yourself it is OK because you are not trying to lose weight! See the thing is your body needs good food for it to function and it matters not if you are skinny or fat, the body just wants nutrients and if we continue down this I can eat chocolate and cake everyday because I love my curves road, we will not have any curves to be proud of as we rot underground oh and in some cases as we chill in urns!
I am a bad junk food junkie, I had speckled eggs and rascals for lunch today! As I was chowing down on these I asked myself why I think it is ok to be so irresponsible with my diet, why do I believe eating these things is ok FOR ME and I realised it is because I am not actively trying to lose weight but the opposite of not trying to lose weight shouldn't be "stuff yourself crazy with junk"! We all have our crazy junk food days I assume, but if everyday is a crazy junk food day for you then we are in big trouble you and I!
I have a youger cousin who is obssessed with what the media deems beautiful, I have tried to explain to her that beauty has such a broad meaning and cannot be confined to what she sees in music videos and VEntertainment! Carry yourself with confidence and forget the haters, and when you read those magazines remember the power of photoshop, and please eat right, drink the recommended amount of water and move a little more!
