I have a weird relationship to food. I used to have eating disorders. I binged, purged, starved, over ate. I've tried nearly every diet. I've fasted. I've restricted.
Currently I'm loving who I am and learning to love the body I live in. I am appreciated by kind lovers who not only love my personality and mind but also my body.
The women in my family have hated their bodies, and felt guilt about what they consume their whole lives. Through thick and thin, and they have never found peace.
I want peace.I currently eat whatever I want. I give in to any craving I have. Yes I've gained a little extra weight (5lbs), but I was already overweight and it's the only thing I haven't tried.
Amazingly the food I've craved such as pizza and any combination of bread and cheese is actually becoming disgusting too me now.
My cravings are starting to turn towards water, fruit, veggies, etc.However, I have stomach problems. I've been to the doctor time and again, but they aren't sure what it is. Maybe it's stress, recently they said irritable bowel, but whatever it is I end up getting sick even when there is nothing to throw up.
Some times I simply CANNOT eat for days. This has presented a problem as not eating is really my only trigger--but it's a big one. After a week of getting sick for even touching water or saltines--It becomes harder and hard to want to eat...
I don't like this.So this blog is to keep me more aware of what I eat, document my food/body image struggles, a place to be whiny and crybaby like with out friends and family being forced to see it (like on facebook). Its also a place to reblog motivating images about body image, food, and exercise.
Thought I am no longer ana, or mia, it is a safe space for other people with body image issues. No judgment--the ed community is probably the only place I've ever felt comfortable in discussing food issues, I hope to support others to be as healthy as possible while lost in their own ED's and support anyone who is trying to recover.(no thinspo here)
Body Beautiful
BIG cats love boxes too!
the obverse to “a lion still has claws my lord” <:V
The caracal is like “no, I am dignified” and sorry bb, ur a cat in a box.
aaaaaaaa helia and i went here and saw these cats!!! babiiiies~~
Want kitties!
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this is an important question do babies pee in the womb
update: they do and im going to adopt
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remember when baby spice sang about wearing a condom
True story: I two nights ago tried to convince my lady friends to sing this with me for karaoke, just for this line.
OH MY GOD
I HAD NO IDEA.
Apparently this message was lost on children.
Spice girls do sex ed.
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No slack for Manning: Prosecutors to press for life
March 3, 2013Military prosecutors intend to pursue more serious charges against Pfc. Bradley Manning despite his having plead guilty to lesser charges. The whistleblower faces life imprisonment if he is found guilty of aiding the enemy.
Manning, 25, admitted on Thursday to handing over a trove of classified documents to WikiLeaks. He voluntary plead guilty to 10 relevant charges, carrying a maximum sentence of 20 years.
The move was a ‘naked plea’ – unlike a plea bargain, there is no arrangement with the prosecution to drop other charges. It did, however, give prosecutors the option to only purse the charges to which Manning confessed, and proceed straight to sentencing.
But after the judge accepted the plea, military prosecutors announced they would pursue the 12 other charges, including the rarely used indictment of aiding the enemy. The crime is punishable by the death sentence, but the prosecution earlier ruled that out, saying they would seek life in prison without parole.
“Given the scope of the alleged misconduct, the seriousness of the charged offenses, and the evidence and testimony available, the United States intends to proceed with the court-martial to prove Manning committed the charged offenses beyond the lesser charges to which he has already pled guilty,” a statement from the Washington Military District said.
The court martial will begin on June 3, with 141 prosecution witnesses scheduled to testify. The prosecutors reportedly plan to reveal that some of the documents leaked by Manning were found by the Navy SEAL team that raided Osama Bin Laden’s hideout in May 2011.
Manning’s plea appears to give him little advantage in the trial, apart from probably winning some points from the judge, Col. Denise Lind, for not forcing the government to prove his role in the leak and his breaking the law in the process.
But there may be more strategic consideration, explained Michael Navarre, a former Navy judge advocate and military justice analyst.
“He’s laying the groundwork for a more lenient sentence and laying the groundwork for a potential defense to the aiding the enemy and the espionage charges,” Navarre told AP. “You end up with a more reasonable starting position — ‘I admit I did it, but I didn’t think it was going to harm anyone.’”
Manning has many supporters, who see him as a hero for putting his well-being on the line to expose morally questionable secrets of the US government. The Bradley Manning Support Network has raised more than $900,000 for his defense. A vigil in his honor was held in front of the US embassy in London on Friday.
The case could set a worrisome precedent for free speech: Manning’s alleged crime of aiding the enemy constitutes publishing classified documents on the Internet, allowing enemies of the US to read them. A guilty sentence would mean that any leak of government secrets that ends up on the Internet, event through traditional media, could be subjected to similar charges.
This is ridiculous…
I knew this was coming and was in the process of writing a response as to why I published the article without changing Manning’s first name.
In December of 2011, Queer Friends of Bradley published a post on their blog addressing this very issue:
Firstly, Bradley has at no point publicly asked to be called Breanna: the chat-log conversations were meant to be private conversations, and the discussions he had with his counsellor were also meant to be private – we are not sure how his counsellor feels it is okay to talk to the media about private discussions he has had with Bradley in a professional setting, we feel this is quite appalling and highly unprofessional – and because Bradley had these on- and off-line conversations with the expectation that they would remain private means that we feel that it is not right to use the information as if it were public information and could somehow constitute a request, public or otherwise, for Bradley to be referred to as Breanna. It is also not yet the case that the chat-logs have been confirmed as being, beyond a shadow of a doubt, authentic.
Secondly, we understand that he had used the name ‘Breanna’ to set up other online accounts, however, given the prevalence of people using pseudonyms on the internet we don’t feel that this is a strong enough justification for us to refer to him as Breanna.
BradleyManning.org also had something to say about the topic:
“Everything we know from Bradley Manning’s friends, family, and legal defense team, is that he wishes to be referred to as Brad or Bradley until he’s able to get to the next stage of his life. Bradley has indicated that he’s not interested in publicly addressing this issue.” -Bradley Manning Support Network. July 24, 2012
The moment Bradley expresses a wish to be called Breanna and have the public use female pronouns in reference, I will respect that. Until then, I will use gender neutral terms when possible and refer to Manning as Bradley, B. Manning or just Manning.
He is aware he just confirmed that he believes in forcing women to bear children against their will, right?
Correct. They’re not even bothering to hide behind the fetal rights agenda anymore.
What the fuck please tell me this is fake
New passports will now be issued with the stamp ‘Republic of Gilead’.
Mentally ill women who decide to not have children are far more sane than this whackjob.This dude is a pretty strong candidate for sociopathy.
Charismatic, persuasive, ambitious, successful….and completely lacking in empathy.
Mind you, dig deep enough and even this paragon of virtue will have some dirty laundry somewhere.
I give it under a year before some rentboy or a love-child or an ex-he-made-have-an-abortion pops up. Assholes like this always have skeletons in their closets.
I was having a discussion with a friend one day about how men like this get into politics. He was like,”But the bills they propose will never make it, because they can’t get enough support.” And I’m wondering, yeah, but how do they make it to begin with? As much as Christians would say that the fundamentalists are few, someone had to vote for these guys.And the features you just listed are those of a cult leader.
Put Saudi dress on him though and Americans will be all,”OMFG!! Oppression! Chauvinism!”
he views women as subhuman. but he is not alone.
there are people that think women have to be stuck with having babies. and that seeking a way out of it is contemptible. i try to see from their perspective, but i can’t. these people believe that if a woman consents to spreading her legs, then she HAS to deal with the consequence of creating and raising a human being. i don’t even know how to tackle the belief some have that even if a woman is raped, she should still accept her role as a birthing vehicle.
if we can entertain ourselves with the philosophy that we were created in the image of god and that we as humans are beyond the basic components of every other creature on earth, why can’t we entertain the notion that we’re beyond the basic concept of sex for procreation? i won’t even contemplate the supposed “abortion isn’t natural” non-religious types that view women like this man does because even in the natural world outside of theology and religious morals, there have been signs of female organisms practicing gestation avoiding strategies without signs of pariahism within their social communities. i know there are more than these two basic view points in support of this man’s way of thinking, but they all boil down to the same idea: woman is subhuman for being. especially if she’s been penetrated.
there is no question that people are uncomfortable with the reality that there are women having sex for reasons that lie outside of procreation. they view that behavior as a hedonistic, dangerous, and shameful, meriting of life-altering consequence (yes, even if she gives the child up for adoption). clearly, the majority of men don’t feel that way about themselves. and the ones that do, are the type of men that blame women for tempting and/or not resisting their advances anyway.
even despite the risk of their own lives dramatically shifting with the prospects of a child on the way that they themselves actively provided 50% of their DNA for, 100% of the onus is on the woman.
if she has the baby without his permission, she’s a greedy lazy whore after some child support. she’s subhuman for being and having been penetrated.
if she decides not to have the baby despite his wishes, she’s a baby killing merciless whore. she’s subhuman for being and having been penetrated.
if she doesn’t get pregnant because she relied on birth control, she’s simply just a whore. but she’s still subhuman for being and having been penetrated.
it should make everyone sick that there are people that support him and his destructive ideas, right?
so i am still left wondering how these views are still accepted when the price of gladly swallowing and adhering means that you’ve accepted that women are subhuman.
(Source: powertothepeoplerighton1, via pandarican)