"Sometimes it feels as though the rest of the world thinks that we are aliens walking around in fat costumes.
With the “right” amount of exercise and dieting, the drive and desire to make a change, to “just work hard enough” to be different… we could just unzip our fat selves and a thin, “whole” human being would simply step out: sparkling, new, and perfect.
But what about those of us who are content in our bodies, or want to be happy and content simply as who we are? These constant messages of inadequacy erode at even the strongest resolve and the happiest people. Over and over again, we have to rebuild our confidence and protect our psyches against both subtle and blatant attacks telling us that we will never be enough. That we must consume, but don’t consume too much.
Shrink, but not the “desirable” parts.
Reduce ourselves into nothingness.
Because we are too much but also never enough."
> Laurel Dickman
