Yeah, I'm pretty okay with my body

I stumbled upon the e-zine Nourishing Connections and was wowed by the amount of studies and articles, loaded with insight on body consciousness, emotional eating and struggles with weight and body images.

To me it now works as a huge online library of sensitive and tolerant approaches to “Freedom from Food and Weight Problems”.

Seeing that they focus on staying attuned with yourself, your mind, heart and body, and discuss why they don’t promote dieting – instead they talk of diet traumas – I’m in!

From one of the many recommended links, I ended up at
About-Face, a wicked activist site, dedicated to:

"Equip women and girls with tools to understand and resist the harmful stereotypes of women the media disseminates."

since:

“Everywhere girls and women look, they see messages about their bodies and their selves, telling them they must be tall, blonde, tan, and sexually available. In fact, a woman can rarely separate her feelings about her physical body from her self-worth, especially in our media-saturated society. And the messages even the youngest girls are seeing and hearing are skewed, sexualized, and sexist.”

Have a look at their Gallery of Offenders where ad images are analysed for their stereotypic and hostile objectifying of women’s bodies. Not to mention: have a look at their rocking blog.

Gofugyourself yeah!

I love gofugyourself.com - perhaps even getting close to addicted to the daily dose of cool grrls telling it like it is on style and looks.

The snappy-happy style of the blog rocks! And when they take on Andre Leon Talley: American editor-at-large for Vogue magazine - they bloody win my heart!

Read their post on "the totally badass figure" of Jennifer Hudson here or there:

Well Played, Jennifer Hudson

Dear Andre Leon Talley:

THIS is how to make Jennifer Hudson wear a metallic. Not some tweaked gold bolero with a popped collar that looks like it was made out of Wonka Golden Tickets.
Kisses, Heather

P.S. Okay, so maybe her makeup is a little too shiny in combination with the dress, but otherwise, I think she looks great. Much as revenge is a dish best served cold, her cleavage is a meal best served HOT.

P.P.S. Also, the figure she cuts is totally badass. If J.Hud were almost any other young star, she'd have wasted away to a size two by now -- even America Ferrera keeps needlessly shrinking -- so I'm thrilled she's healthy and sexy and wearing clingy clothes.

P.P.P.S. And I love her sassy bob.

P.P.P.P.S. "Sassy Bob" sounds like the name of a really terrible hair salon that has a karaoke bar in the back. Which actually automatically makes it a hilariously amazing hair salon. Can someone please open that?

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Mindre husdyr tilladt.

Bellisima

So the net is buzzing with comments on the “plus-size” winner of America's Next Top Model, since gorgeous Whitney Thompson won.

Cool! But Thompson is a US size 10, equals a EU size 40. Not a “plus-size”, but a completely “regular” size for most western women.

Still, Whitney Thompson is way curvier than the average model, by far! And it’s such a rush to see her celebrated for her sexy, full(er) figure and her vitality, radiating I am a plus-size woman and I am beautiful.

Plus (!) I stand behind any and all steps away from worshipping the insane size 0 body – in the media, movies and magazines, everywhere!

The 20 y/o girl rocks, stating to the New York Post:
- I'm not going to lose 50 pounds — if someone asks me to do that, I'll go to another [modeling] agency.

Fav Full-Figured Blogs

As quite the Fatshionista, I love good looking and well fitting plus size clothes. Just bought a cool classic trench coat from BIB at H&M, ready for spring in Copenhagen, and in my heart.

More on plus-size trench coats at Manolo for the Big Girl.

I’m a loyal reader of Meieli's Plus-Size Fashion Blog - a must read most days, Meili takes the fear out of swimsuit season and puts fun in the lust for great plus-size fashion.

In her latest post she asks for zaftique links:

I'm on the hunt for more amazing blogs of plus-size nature that can inspire and intrigue me! Could your suggestions be the ones I'm looking for while building up my new list?

Meieli mentions Blog to be Alive as one of her plus-blog-favorites, I'm not familiar with it, will check it out.

On my list of fav full-figured blogs are:

Manolo for the Big Girl
Big Fat Blog
Fat Chicks Rule
Voluptuous Woman Company Forum
Fatshionista

Drunkorexia

A NYTimes article: Starving Themselves, Cocktail in Hand, touch upon drunkorexia - short for starvation or bingeing/purging, combined with alcohol abuse.

Sounds like a combo made to destroy any woman's body & soul. And so it is intended I guess, if you're a young woman who starve yourself to offset the calories in the alcohol consumed.

It’s difficult to understand the inner chaos of a young anorexic or bulimic person. A life lived in constant fear of being and looking yourself, of never feeling comfortable in your own body, never being "good enough", never just laughing the hell out of it all, letting go and getting to know your real self.

Nervosa
Instead drinking, a young woman says in the article, relaxed her when she had to eat in front of other people, a huge source of stress.

“I didn’t even have the energy to laugh,” she tells of her life before entering a treatment center for the fifth time - in a determined attempt to break her obsessions with weight, food and alcohol.

Plus tips

Sure, I admit to being a devoted fan of Trinny & Susannah!

Love their approach to dressing your best, finding your style, looking closely at yourself, always finding something to love about your shape and yourself, not taking any crap bout not looking great because of your age or size or self image or bank account.

So looking for that cool burgundy tailored coat look, I consulted the maestros, got tips, and chunks of fav links, and from there I found even more links for cool clothing in my size.

So now on my way for some intelligent online clothes shopping, remembering:

"Don't believe that the only way you can feel better about yourself is by losing weight or cosmetic surgery. You can change how you look today by learning how to show off your best assets and disguise the ones you don't like."