… I just want to say that I hope we spend our two minutes of silence to remember our fallen soldiers, the soldiers that are out their doing their tours of duty. That the will all come home safely.

I don’t know if it is just because I’ve become more acutely aware of weight - and how it’s portrayed in the media… or if it’s just come up again to be one of the hot topics.

You’ve heard of the no more super thin models in Spain?

I even read about the whole Anorexia issue in one of the latest People magazines

The ongoing vulture watch of Nicole Riche - when will someone intervene????

Last night I watched a comedy routine of Margaret Cho.  She’s one very funny woman.  She just says it like it is… says things that shock you and things that leave you nodding your head.  I think the comedy routine was just shortly after 9/11.

The routine touched on everything… gays, lesbians, sex, and weight.  I suppose the part about the weight really struck a chord in me.  It was the point that we’ve been brainwashed by society (really, I think we have) to live the life of the super skinny.  That we’re worth something only when we’re thin… and if we gain weight or are very overweight - somehow we become invisible.  It was somewhat sad to realize that her comedy wasn’t so much to be funny… but to be so true.

She talked about being overweight as a child.  How her mother almost promoted a messed up eating habit.  Her example was that they had gone to the doctor to find a way to lose weight.  Her brother was also overweight and everyday they went swimming.  Laps and Laps.  Then her mother would pick them up and take them to McDonalds where they would have a Big Mac, Fries, Chicken Nuggets and a Hot apple pie with a drink.  Her humour led down the path of … you know you have an eating disorder when you’re ordering desserts from McDonalds.  But then they would go home and have supper with their father like nothing had happened.  There was no meal before it.

That could have been routine.  But it rang so true with me. The binging… the realization that this shit happens to people everyday.  We’ve got a complex.

In the end of this part of her routine Margaret just said that she let it go.  She will be what she is.  What she’s meant to be.  She wasn’t meant to be stick thin.  She’s healthy… she’s herself… she didn’t sell out to the big entertainment/media monstrosity that promotes being thin.

I think she’s right, we have to start feeling better about ourselves no matter what our size.  That is sometimes so hard to do.  I find it difficult… does anyone else?

… btw.  Margaret Cho’s routine was hilarious.

I got the link from Anonymous Fat Woman about emotional eating.  Why do we eat… one… two… three… oh the whole damn plate of cupcakes - what are we looking for when we do it.

Ahhh… emotional eating.