Not my story

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Just wanted to let you know that it isn't my story. I'm just

reposting a letter from another site.

-Jodie

> >

> > I found this letter while looking up concepts of size

acceptance.

> I

> > think its very motivational. I'll post a link to the site at the

> > bottom:

> >

> > ---------------------

> > " Hello all,

> >

> > " Two and a half years ago, shortly after I found this list, I

> > stopped all dieting and began instead to focus on my health and

> good

> > nutrition. What has happened since then is I have become strong,

I

> > have stopped all binge eating, and I now once again can buy

regular

> > fat clothes, meaning I can now buy clothing at most stores that

> carry

> > plus sizes, since I stopped dieting I have lost over 100 pounds (

I

> > was recently weighed at a Dr's appt).

> >

> > " Stopping all dieting was something I was really scared to do

as

> I

> > had been continuously gaining weight since high school with my

> strict

> > dieting which would lead to starvation and binge eating. I was

> > afraid if I stopped dieting altogether I would just gain and

gain.

> > But really what happened is I stopped being obsessed with food

> > because I denied myself nothing. I ate whenever and whatever I

> > wanted. I started trying to discover what good nutrition really

is

> > and began to eat things I didn't really care for, such as veggies

> and

> > whole grains. I would force myself through eating them, just so I

> > could be sure my body was getting all the proper things needed

for

> > health.

> >

> > " I still ate junk food but slowly as my health improved my

> cravings

> > for and my taste for junk food dissipated altogether. I now not

> only

> > do not crave it, I don't even think of it as edible. Any

obsession

> > with food I had is gone. One of my fantasies when I was a teen

was

> > to be able to sit at a table full of food and not feel the

> > overwhelming need to eat it all. I have achieved that.

> >

> > " It is an irony that I gained steadily while dieting and lost

> > steadily when I stopped. That just kills me. I have since

learned

> > that scientific studies have been proving that dieting makes you

> > fatter then just eating regular all the time. The media and the

> diet

> > industry have obscured these studies from us.

> >

> > " So I am no longer a 'super-sized' woman, so to speak, and have

> > become a fat activist. I have contacted my local community radio

> > station here in Portland - KBOO - and have joined a feminist

radio

> > program so I can send out the message to other fat and super-

sized

> > women that dieting will kill you. I have also written a 'Zine'

to

> > both get this point across and explore fat fiction and poetry. I

> > became a writer at age 10 when I couldn't find few good action

> > adventure books featuring girls so I wrote my own and now I need

to

> > write stories featuring me again now as a fat woman.

> >

> > " Don't get me wrong, I love my body as it is, as it was, and as

> it

> > will become. It is my tool for living my life and it functions

> > pretty nicely. What others think of how I look is irrelevant,

like

> > my car with all its dents and dings, it serves me and that is all

I

> > need. "

> >

> > " This list pointed me to a path I never knew was there. It has

> > changed my life and way of being. I am happy more often then not

> and

> > healthier then I have been since childhood. THANK YOU!! "

> >

> >

> > Sincerely,

> > Myra Grey

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> > http://www.sizewise.com/docs/sa.html

> >

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