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Make X Fat!
| Fri, 11-21-2003 - 3:27pm |
OK, my email support group has decided to donate all of the pounds we're losing to Britney Spears and make her really fat. So, this leads me to two questions:
1) If you could give all of the weight you're losing through SBD to one person, who would it be? It can be a celebrity, that skinny b**** in the office that you can't stand, your MIL, whoever :-)
2) How much weight have you lost so far to donate to this person? Add it to the post before yours, and we'll tabulate the Make X Fat! results as we go :-)
I'll begin...
1) I'll stick with Britney, although Sarah Michelle Gellar is a close second.
2) My official total of weight lost is ten pounds, so X's total weight is:
10 pounds
Feel free to post more than once as you keep losing pounds, just add the new loss into the total on its own.
Have fun!
Shan

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That brings project X to...195 pounds!!!
Shan
I'm gonna
Rhonda
Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time disapproving of others.
~~Rhonda~~
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Dianne
Believe me when I say, I am not overly sensitive to things at all. I work with inner city kids, so I can't be sensitive to things. I wasn't an overly sensitive child growing up nor am I now and overly sensitive adult. So, the issue of the words doesn't bother me at all. It does spark me to see wonderful and successful women on an AWESOME WOE "giving" away their excess cargo to people who may or may not have worked hard to look the way they look, or for other reasons more mental, have no control over what they look like. All in jest I understand, but it wouldn't be me if I didn't post.
Soapbox gone... :) Have a great weekend.
Thanks for your post, I appreciate what you're saying. Of course I intended the original post to be tongue in cheek, and I apologize if anyone was offended by it. My intention was not to demean anyone but to give us a fun way to kind of tabulate our results as a group.
I think that the total number of X is pretty incredible, that we as a group have lost that much (I can't remember the number off hand but I know it's in the 200's), and since I personally am pretty visual I can picture all that weight put together into a single person. Maybe it is mean-spirited of me, but I do get a certain satisfaction in imagining all of it on a specific person, particularly someone who I personally feel presents a body image that is really unhealthy for the young women who idolize her. I know that stars work hard for their figures, and I say more power to them since we are all trying to realize our own ideal bodies. However, I don't think celebrities are realistic body image models simply because the rest of us do not have the same resources to spend on body perfection.
For me at least, un-idealizing them takes away their power to make me feel bad about my own body. I'll admit that as much as I think Britney is a bad body image model, part of me wishes I looked like her. Picturing her looking more like me takes away the temptation to do unhealthy things to myself to achieve that.
Like I said at the beginning, I truly apologize if this post has offended anyone. That was never my intention.
Take care,
Shan
Maybe it is because I don't have that much to lose, and I am athletic, but I have a natural body. I would be interested to hear what would be said about me if I was seen in person. My sister has a runner's figure, and she has a Brittney SPears apperance in how finely tuned she has made her body.
If you see Spears (and I use her because I have seen more than a few interviews and stories about her) in times when she is not touring, she has the pooch in her midsection, and she has a little flab here and there. She is a medium framed girl, and IMO, I don't see her as being unhealthy. SHe exercises, crunches, dances (more or less...lol) Unhealthy to the eye are the Calista Flockhearts, Lara Flynn Boyles who look like they don't eat, but we don't know what is going in their head.
I don't judge people's appearance based on their posts here because I don't know them. I am 6 foot tall, 193.5, 8in wrist, with a D cup breast, muscular thighs and calves. Would people here consider me to the unhealthy version of their Brittney Spears? Heck, I am a freaking Amazon, and I love it:)
As stated before, I know this post was tongue-in-cheek, but is it really necessarry for everyone to wish their excess baggage on someone else? Believe me, I am very visual as well. I am comfortable in my body and my getting there flat stomach. I do the crunches, the pilates, the running, and the weight training to stay in the shape and size I want to be for a healthy me. I wasn't comfortable 20 lbs heavier. I am comfortable now. Feel great, running my tail off, and doing very well for myself. I don't need a mirror to tell me who I am. I don't need someone telling me I look great to make me feel better. I don't have deeper seeded personal issues to want to make others "fatter" to make me feel better.
The norm is not what we see on TV. The norm is me, you, and others on this board who are within their healthy weight range or working they tails off to make it there. We are the strong people who shouldn't let other's body images cause us to be ashamed or strive for the size 6 body. I am a size 12-14, and I love it.
I thought I put that soap box away.... :)
Thank you so much for your kind reply to me, Shandc. You are a true asset to this board, and I enjoy your conversation. And I don't mean that in an Eddie Haskel kind of way either.
I do see your point, and I'm glad that you posted it here to give the other side of the story. I spent a year working with teenagers from war zones, which I would imagine was probably pretty similar to some of what you do with the inner city youth (kudos to you for that, by the way) so I think it's important that all opinions and views are heard and respected. I'd rather have someone disagree with me and share that fact than be upset about something I've said and just never bring it up. And if the person who disagrees can respectfully give me their reasons why like you did, then whether or not I eventually come to agree with them I will definitely respect them more afterwards.
Hope you're having a great weekend!
Shan
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