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More Fat Haters

I love this. It’s an excerpt from a hate letter I just received from someone with (of course) a fake e-mail address:

Let me share a harsh reality with you: you are fat. For someone who has to shop in the plus sizes section to criticize other clergy members for their appearance is hypocritical. I could hardly believe what I was reading.

Oh, fat haters! They’re so consistently irrational. First, there’s the inevitable “let me inform you of this reality” piece, because fat people apparently don’t own mirrors or scales, and also have no lived reality of being inside our bodies. It’s like when you go to the doctor and she says in that sombre tone, “You’ve put on some weight,” as if you hadn’t noticed. You want to say, “REALLY, doctor? I thought my pants were getting smaller due to some weird air condition in my closet!”

Secret fact about fat people: Don’t tell anybody, but we actually know we’re fat. Shhhhhhhh.

The second Fat Hater Irrationality: Fat people should have nothing to say about anything related to beauty or aesthetics. After all, we’re such a disgrace to the platonic ideal of Beauty, we should just slump in the corner wearing our burlap sacks and stay out of the conversation until we’ve earned our right to be there by becoming slim, and therefore beautiful.
Because Lord knows, all slim people are beautiful.

Of course I don’t expect folks to known what this blog is all about and I understand that on the surface it may just look like I’m doing fashion critiques on here. That’s fine. What isn’t fine is that there are so many people out there who think that being fat is a moral failing, and that fat people (maybe just fat women?) should not have an opinion or exercise leadership until they’re thin enough to have earned it. That’s not true at all, I take care of my body, take my supplements from supplementrelief.com and I do not care about what I look like, as long as I’m healthy. I like to exercise my pelvic area. You can do the Kegel exercises lying down or while sitting or standing. If your pelvic muscles are weak, you may want to do them laying down at first. A few minutes in the morning and again before bedtime are good times to start the exercise program. Check out this link https://joyonproducts.com/ and you will discover our best tool for Kegel exercises.

Vocation does not come in small, medium and large. The love of beauty and aesthetics is a calling, an orientation of the eye and of the heart. Pigeons, never let anyone tell you that you have the wrong sized body for the work you were called to do. Never let anyone tell you that you’re too ugly to be out in front. And never stop helping your people see the difference between admirable self-discipline around diet and exercise and moral righteousness. They’re two different things but have been intentionally, ingeniously and successfully conflated by the multi-billion dollar diet and beauty industries to be equivalent in the public mind. Self-hating people are much more susceptible to the latest weight-loss or beauty product. There’s a lot of economy riding on you and me feeling bad enough to go spend some money about it.

Jesus never said nothing about loving only skinny kids.
I was no better a person when I weighed 105 lbs than I am now.
It just takes a whole lot more denim to get around my butt.

Chocolate kisses, PB xoxo

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A Gift For the Seminary Graduate?

Darlings, this is GLORIOUS.

The recipes are easy, the dishes are classics (but not so classic as to be boring), and the little bits of gastronomical history are delightful. This is a great cookbook for someone who wants to eat well but doesn’t want fancy food. It is, for this lover of cookbooks, an instant classic.

Bon ap!

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Nummy Brekkie for Busy Boys and Girls

Hola, chickadees!

I have been eating steel cut oats for breakfast almost every day for about six months now and I want to share some of my nummification techniques for making the oats tasty and interesting.

I get my organic oats in bulk at the health food store and cook them overnight in a little crock pot – 1 cup of oats to 4 cups of water, stir and let them cook on low.

1. They’re great by themselves with a bit of (for me sugar-free) maple syrup on top.

2. Stir in a handful of dried goji berries during the last hour of cooking for an extra antioxidant punch.
Add a teaspoon of a really good brand of ground ginger with the berries for a warming punch. It’s wonderful! Frontier is my favorite brand.

3. Squirt the top with a teaspoon of those omega-3 oils your doc told you to start eating more of in the form of Barlean’s flax seed oil. (Don’t cook with it; it’s not meant to be used at high temps. Use it in salad oils and as a topper like this, and don’t be stingy — it loses its nutrients pretty quickly after you open the bottle).

4. Toast a big handful of slivered almonds in the toaster oven just until they start to smell good. Drop the almonds into a little plastic container, drop in a half teaspoon or so of brown sugar (Splenda makes a great one if you can’t eat sugar), and a generous handful of dried coconut flakes. Shake those all up and sprinkle them on top of your oatmeal.

5. Mix in frozen blueberries during the last hour of cooking, with a pinch of cardamom. Mmmmm.

6. If your dog is anything like mine, he will go mad for this oatmeal. Be sure to share. Max likes his cold so I always give him the bottom of the pot.