The Curvy Goddess

Elastic Waist

A little while ago the lovely peeps at Elastic Waist asked me if I would write them a piece for their blog regular 'From the Vault'. Anyway here it is...

Child Obesity Alert

The News lately seems to be awash with news about obesity, one story worried me a great deal.

The government seems to be considering proposals to inform parents if their children are overweight. What particularly worries me is that there seems to be no follow up plans, it would seem as though parents are just going to be told your child is fat. What good is that?

I remember at School having some kind of health check by the School Nurse, who told me I was overweight and should try to lose weight by changing my diet. She then proceeded to tell me not to eat a list of foods that I did not eat and when I told her I didn't eat what she was reeling off, she just ushered me out of the room. This stupid cow of a nurse just made me feel utterly powerless about body and that is just one of many experiences that for so many years haunted me and made feel totally out of control of my body.

My concerns are that some parents won't know how to change their children's diets and that children, will like I did grow up with poor self esteem.

It does seem that there are some excellent and positive schemes out there by the NHS to support overweight/obese children if they want to lose weight, but I suspect that if the government decided to follow this course action there won't be enough cash or places for every overweight child to be involved with one of them.

Oh how I worry.

Some New Links

I've added a couple more links to the best of british section...

First is for Serenity Blue who sell beautiful tie dye and floaty tops and dresses all made from natural rayon.  They say on their site that they want their clothes to:

"to bring out the goddess in you"

And their clothes certainly do look goddess like - everything is colourful and pretty and plus size (up to size 24 and larger sizes are soon to follow).  Plus the tie dye options are very impressive.

And I have added Matalan to the list which I recently realised was quite a silly omission.  Although you can't buy online from the Matalan website, the Rogers & Rogers range they offer in their stores is usually quite extensive and cheap - yay for cheap plus size clothing!

Finally I thought I would just give a quick mention to Halloween...  I got an email from Big  Girl's Wardrobe the other day telling me that they have an extensive range of fancy dress costumes for Halloween in plus sizes.  The costumes are quite pricey (£40-45ish), but I suspect thats because they are imported, but if you want sexy costume, it will be worth the money - all the costumes a figure hugging and leave little to the imagination!

My Sugar Monster Has to Die...

Well here I am again, starting AGAIN…

I've lost count of the amount of times I've said here, turning over a new leaf, restarting, going to finish this stupid bloody diet.

I feel quite confused as to what I should do.

Do I go back to the GI Diet and stick to it strictly?

Do I need a new diet?

How do I bring exercise into my life?

I hate this dieting bollocks, yet I want to carry on as a firm believer in taking action, rather than mulling this over doing nothing (well I am an aries).

This limbo feels rubbish though I don't want to give up, but I do want to diet, but I can't stick to it.  And I feel angry and cheated because dieting has turned me in to a chocolate fiend.  I need to kill my inner sugar monster, but he's all cute and fluffy and likes to be fed twixes.

Some might think this is crazy, me tormenting myself like this.  But I have been so unhappy all of my life with myself because of my weight.  No matter how much I try to reset my brain, it ain't happening.  I do not like myself because I am fat.  Nothing anyone says is going to change that, so I have to change myself.

I have to change myself, boy does it suck.  But if I get to my target weight, right now, it would seem so worth the struggle.

The sugar monster has to die!