well, it took me days but i finally read through all the latest posts to find out where i belong, and this place feels the most...normal (?) Yes, I am a 'woman of substance" and not overly happy about that. I have always been heavy and will always be, but the health issue (now that I am ...45, geeze) is more of a concern.
who I am: I am a contradiction of everything, a Christian Feminist who likes to say the "F" word when needed, I am childless by choice, married with 4 cats, and 2 dogs, and dust bunnies the size of shetland ponies. I live in the states but work in China (the commute is a *****!) an artist and marketing director for a company in mainland China (where everyone is a size 2). I am in the process of being diagnossed with some rare and exotic desease that makes walking difficult, and writing even more so...
(not MS, Lupus, MD, Fibro...or anything else we can find) So I have braces on arms and legs, but still manage to clock over 100,000 frequent flyer miles a year. I know all the 'rules' of eating and still make the wrong choices and have been on many diets in the past. (the same old story)
I joined the group to get support for those days that I just need people around me who understand the concept of having more than one wardrobe (fat clothes and not so fat clothes) and who can truely sympathize with "Eddie" on "AB FAB" when she whined
'all I want are clothes that don't leave marks on me'.
So, if all you nice alternative people can accept yet another "looser" then scooth over, ginya is here!
squeak