why be skinny

Persistence and Perspective

03.01.2010

I know I’ve been writing a little more introspectively lately. Stories definitely not as funny as some Fat Camp Follies, but I really think that they’re important. I’m not in some weird “dark and moody” place right now, just kind of blah. Could be weather- this endless

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Too fat to fly?

02.14.2010

Quite a bit of commotion this weekend on Twitter and in the rest of the social media stratosphere (I’m a marketer, remember? Totally a fan of social media) having to do with director Kevin Smith getting asked to get off a Southwest Airlines plane because

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I just want to FIT

01.31.2010

So my last post generated some interesting replies, both on and off the blog. I really tried to think hard about why I wanted to lose weight. Motivation comes and goes, and as it does, I wanted to really think about the true reason that

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Why do you want to lose weight?

01.26.2010

This is an interesting question: Why do you want to lose weight? The standard fatty answer we’ve been told to say all our lives is that “I want to be more healthy.” Ok, that’s fine, if that’s really true. But is that your true motivator?

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Moving Forward

07.15.2009

“If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run the walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” — Martin Luther King Jr. I’ve always loved this quote. Sometimes I wonder why I spent so

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Shoe Porn

06.22.2009

It is quite common for Fat Emmie to love shoes, bags and jewelry. These are things that aren’t quite as hard to shop for when you don’t fit in standard sizes. Problem is that Fat Emmie=fat feet. I have quite large feet anyway, being 5’10.