never EVER have a 43things goal that focusses on losing weight!

And I’m going to clear this from my list, to make room for other goals. :(
There is a good chance I WILL be trying to lose bodymass after my baby is born – I’m going to try to focus on my body shape/size rather than the numbers though. I don’t care if I end up weighing 200 kilos, so long as I can fit my pre-pregnancy clothes, quite honestly.
But that’s not for ages – my goal at the moment is to START looking fatter in the middle! I can’t honestly wait to start having that big pregnancy tummy going on.

on this?

When I saw this goal on her list of 43 things it made me go ‘yeah!’ and I totally agree with her how sad it is that so many of the lists on here include ‘losing weight’ as goals. I rather evily tend not to give cheers to people who have weight loss goals on their lists (in the same way I tend to avoid overly religious people on here). I guess they are probably the people who need it most, but I just want to make it public that if I ever start posting about losing weight then something has gone seriously weird in my brain.

This is a reflection of my mentality – I think diets are boring, people who focus on their weight as an indicator of themselves or their atractiveness tend to be boring company from talking about it constantly, and when I was growing up, my mother used to tell me I was fat and ugly, since I hit puberty and got quite chubby.

Nowadays, I am still chubby though – certainly not “fat”, but definitely “overweight”, even if you’re a BMI dissenter (which I am. That shit is totally arbitrary, neglects the fact women have higher body fat than men, that people are naturally different builds, and that muscle weighs much more than fat). And I tend to get chubbier in winter – due to lack of exercise and indulgence in wintery, cheesy, buttery, carby foods (my favourites).
And I am going from an Australian winter to an English one.
And I have heard about “The Heathrow injection” – and my arse certainly doesn’t need inflating.
And I am unhappy because the cold is affecting my asthma and my silly knee and making me wheezy and achy-hurty and want to do less exercise.
And my favourite exercise (apart from bellydanicng) is swimming. I don’t do swimming in the cold.

I don’t ever want to be “thin”. But I’d prefer not to end up waddling across the landscape. Barring pregnancy, a’course.

I think it’s time to think about speakers for the ipod (or more likely, speakers and a cheapish laptop) and developing a stronger at-home bellydance practice…

How sad is it that pretty much every person on here has a goal that has something to do with losing weight – not “getting fitter” but LOSING WEIGHT?!
Fucking sad, people. We’re all these sizes and none of us feel happy. Get happy with yourself first, why doncha? :)