Fat Talk Free Week. Take a guess at what that is. This week is meant to be a week of absolutely no fat talk, which includes thinking your fat or talking about how you've lost weight, or thinking about how you wish you could be as skinny as another person, etc.
I wish I would have found out about this at the beginning of the week; however, I am pledging, right now, to go a week without "fat talk." Forget that, I am going to try to go for a month, starting today. Zero fat talk.
When I found out about Fat Talk Free Week, it was brought to my attention how often we use fat talk. It's all around us! No wonder even the skinniest of us want to be skinnier. Fat talk reinforces the thinness ideals that our society revolves around. Everything we see on TV, what we read about in magazines, how "thin is in," it lowers our self-esteem and our self-worth.
I found a good way to reinforce Fat Talk Free Week; Anytime someone says something negative about their body, they have to list five things they like about their body. You guys have to help me stick to this, alright? And I'll do the same for you.
Another reason to participate in Fat Talk Free Week is to support those struggling to recover from an eating disorder. As a society, we place too much value on body image, and it shows. If you don't feel the need to stop the fat talk for yourself, do it for a friend who's struggling with her self-worth.
I hate how negative we are about body image. It is so hard to be content with how you look when everything around you is telling you that you should NOT eat that second cookie.
You know what? I am going to eat that second cookie and I will be happy about it!
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