Fat Chicks Rule

freedom to move

There is a debate on whether to incorporate movement as part of the size acceptance movement.  Some think that incorporating good health and fitness leads to healthism that fat people can only exist if they eat right and exercise or you aren't into size acceptance if you are into fitness.  I understand their point.  If you are fat you deserve all the same rights as everyone else no matter what your eating or exercise habits are. 

However I believe everyone has the right to exercise: fat, thin, uncoordinated, hard-body.  The right to feel the good endorphins that exercise brings.  I believe that fat people have the right to exercise (or not to exercise) without ridicule.   I think that a lot of fat people don’t get their exercise due to being ostracized.  I got called a “fat bitch” while riding my bike and I sometimes get looks from the slimmer swimmers. 

However exercise can be fun and it is very fun when you don’t do it for weight loss.  The important thing is to find something you are comfortable with.  I love to swim, bike and walk.  I hate to climb stairs, so I don’t.

Here is a lovely essay by Charlotte Cooper about getting on a bike.

Plus Size Pilates adapted for any-size exercise

The most important thing is to have fun and don't worry...

Plus size model.

Link post tonight.  Limited time.

Plus side of being a model

Does a skinny model guarantee a good photograph?

No way, says Liis Windischmann, Canada's top plus-size model. "A good model is a good model, no matter what size she is."

Rest of the Article here.

This disgusts me.

Bullying Keeps Overweight Kids From Exercise

SUNDAY, May 14 (HealthDay News) -- Overweight kids who could benefit from sports and regular exercise are often discouraged from doing so by taunts and bullying, a U.S. study finds...

So as I mentioned in last weeks post that we are told to get healthy but are denied health insurance.  Now we are told to exercise but when we try we are made fun of.

When I was a kid I hated gym, not the playing part, but the constant teasing...

I'm doing an early post because I won't be home tomorrow.  I'm seeing Nothing to Lose.   

US: Plus-size market rockets by 50% - Mintel. 

I find this funny as I shopped for a bathing suit yesterday.  So far it hasn't been as bad as I thought.  I decided on Marshalls because I actually found a cute suit there last time and they are relatively cheap.  As usual Size 0-16 had lots of suits, size 18-24 (as always there is no fat woman above a size 24) had relatively no selection and that selection for the most part was ugly.  Thankfully I did find two acceptable suits.  One had a big white bow. (After all no one will think I'm fat once they see I have a big bow.)  I cut the bow off. 

Also as far as sizes I've been reading a lot of chick lit. I just read a god-awful one called "Night Swimming".  The main character weighs 253 pounds but is a size 18! She must have the fattest feet ever.  Of course if you are fat and you want to be thin all you have to do is mistakenly be told you are dying, rob a bank and run away to California!  Then you will exercise regularly, eat normally and lose weight!  I kid you not.

Of all places, Paktribune as

Of all places, Paktribune as reported a study done right here in the USA that: Radical Diets Can Lead to Obesity

This doesn't surprise me at all.

Movie time

My friend Robert is presenting a movie about the NYC-NAAFA chapter called Nothing to Lose.  If you are in the New York Metro area, it is being shown on Monday May 8th at the Landmark Cimena.   Theater #4.  143 East Houston Street. It's part of a film festival of different student films.  The festival starts at 6 and Nothing to Lose should be on sometime after 8.  Robert is working to get the film shown in other places.  If you know any place who would like to show Robert's film please contact him!

Nothing To Lose By Robert Y. Chang 
This video introduces viewers to a group of fat New Yorkers who try  
to make The Big Apple a better place for people of all shapes and sizes.   
Seeking to end discrimination based on body size, fat activists appear on television  
and radio, organize local guerrilla actions against the diet-industry, and build  
size-accepting communities. 15 min.