Two posts in one day? Surely not!
1) Senior Rita is under the weather. Send healing thoughts and positive energy that everything will be under warranty and ok. (And also, universe? I may be resisting forward movement, but could you please leave my baby alone? Kthxbye.)
2) Kimberly send me this bit of awesome from Shapely Prose. (Originally seen on The Rotund) It's so damn good I'm reprinting it here:
I challenge you - no matter what your stance on the whole anti-dieting debate - to go a full day without saying anything negative about your body to another person. Don’t discuss your thighs or your plans for when you lose that final ten pounds. If someone compliments you, don’t casually put yourself down.
You know the proper response when someone says something nice to you? It’s “Thank you.”
Do your best not to look at your body and think negative things. This one is a little harder because we get into habits of thoughts but give it a try. If you find yourself having a negative thought about your body, stop and replace it with something positive. And I don’t mean a weasely kind of positive like, “Well, I guess my skin is okay.” No, make it something fierce and positive and really mean it.
Don’t get a salad for lunch unless you really want one and don’t assign moral value to food.
If other people are talking about their bodies in a negative way, change the subject.
Give this a try, a real try just for today. Then tell me about it. In the meantime, spread this around! Share it with your friends. Work together to think and say only positive things about your body and food today.No back to my regularly scheduled workday. Phew!
