New Paradigm

I am doing fairly good with the gluten free.  A couple of surprises such as vodka coolers can have wheat in them.  Other then that, okay.

I am starting to work on a new paradigm.  Part of that paradigm is not to worry about my weight any more, and just like me for me.  Whatever size I am.

It is a simple statement but more complex then you can imagine

The advertising for diets; advertising for size is all over.  It is in yogurt commercials, and special K cereal commercials.  Conversations with others about counting carbs, I should loose weight conversations.  Conversations about joining the gym or never going to the gym they pay a few thousand over the year to join.  Subtle things like fitting into a bus seat, or sitting next to someone on a plane.  All make it difficult to say I like me for me, and I am okay with who I am.  People love me for who I am, not what I look like.....

Though strangers, and those with a body fixation -- don't agree

Maybe they don't matter

New Paradigm

I am fantastic
I like who I am and being a bigger size is okay
Those who don't agree and judge me - don't matter to me - I can "poof" these body obsessed, judgmental people out of my existence in my head, turn them into pink fluffy unicorns in my mind and all their words are turned into the background buzz of a fan or a ticking clock-  meaningless noise and unworthy of my attention