quote, stolen from windswept

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Kind of like the pagan saying about "Putting your intention out to the universe."

SIZE acceptance

I've had a few readers point out to me that weight-neutrality when talking about health should extend to naturally thin people, and that naturally thin people are often burdened with other people's assumptions and bigotry (She must be anorexic! She must be super-vain!).

Believe me; I'm aware of the fact that no matter what size you are, no matter what gender you are, no matter what color or shape you are, people will find ways to fault the way you look or assume things about your health habits solely from what you look like.

I am going to focus on the idea of "weight-neutrality" when it comes to Health at Any Size, and I'm going to try on the idea of "Size Acceptance" rather than "Fat Acceptance" for a while.

On a related note, this great essay talks about ways to make yourself immune to cultural pressure to conform to a certain ideal body type, and it doesn't focus solely on fat folks, but on people of all sizes and shapes:

http://www.bodypositive.com/emotimmu.htm

I'm rather fond of the entire bodypositive.com site.