Facebook’s On This Day reminded me that today is my 2 year Surgiversary. So much has happened in the last two years. My life hardly resembles that of two years ago, in a good way. Here’s a picture of me also from the general time period before surgery. It isn’t until photos like this show …
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Body Positivity and WLS
Picture from the No Body Shame website I have previously talked about my struggle with the cognitive dissonance between wanting to support/promote/embody body positivity even though I have had WLS. Cognitive Dissonance My news feed this morning sent me to Dances With Fat, specifically to a post talking about not allowing weight loss talk in …
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Cognitive dissonance
I used to hate the term “cognitive dissonance.” That’s because I had a guy one time use it as the reason to quit seeing me when it was very clear to me at the time that the only dissonance was that I was smart and fun to be with, but I was also fat and …
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