RANTINGS OF A CURVACEOUS GIRL BY SHELLZ

Often times, I say “am going to work at losing some weight” and to be fair, I always try. I just don’t always stay true to the dream. It isn’t easy to shed weight and so melancholy sets in after a while.

Don’t worry, this is not your “tips on how to lose weight easily”. Trust me, if I knew how to do that, the inspiration to write this would not have hit me. I got so desperate one day and started day-dreaming about this drug. I used to always say then that I would take any drug so long as it had ‘pseudophedrine’ in it. I had learnt through a movie that pseudophedrine was a drug that caused drastic changes in appetite. The most prominent thing about the drug is that it causes loss of appetite. If you could get your hand on the raw one and put it in a smoothie or something like that, then you would have hit the jackpot.

So I indulged myself In the fantasy that I would one day lay my eyes on this drug and take it. Then it would automatically be my fast track way to losing weight. Its not like I feel insecure about my body, trust me, I don’t. At least not all the parts of it. I would confess that I sometimes feel insecure about my weight. And those that are really close to me know that there are only two parts of my body that gives me concern. They are my stomach and arm.

Those that have struggled with weight issues like I have, know that its not easy. I am always sceptical to try general weight loss exercises because the only parts of my body I’d like to lose weight in, in my opinion doesn’t require general exercises. However often times, I have been told that they do and then I cajole myself to do them.

I absolutely detest it when people call me: fat, big, thick, chubby, or any other word that falls in that category. I do not appreciate it when people take jabs at the parts of me that I am not particularly happy about. I know I speak for a lot of ladies out there when I say that I wish that everyone would just mind their business. In the words of one of my favourite movie characters, “if everyone swept in front of their own doorsteps, the whole world would be clean.

I thereby say today that let us take a stand against jabs at our weight. If it isn’t a crime to be stick-thin, then why should we be laughed at because we are not. We shouldn’t be made to feel uncomfortable in our own skin. We shouldn’t be laughed at. We should be embraced for who we are. In an age where homosexuality is being accepted, why shouldn’t being big be embraced? Why must I have a small butt?, or a cup ‘B’ size breast? Why must I be a size ‘6’ or a size ‘4’ or a size ‘2’ before I can feel good about myself.

Trust me, I myself am not so big. I am at most a size small size ’10’ and most of the times, I am a big size ‘8’. And yet often times I am still judged for my weight. Why can’t I get certain jobs because I am a certain size? What is SO wrong with being a size 16. I have being told before that I am just TOO FAT and after I have lost weight I can come back.

So therefore, today I am taking a stand not to feel low about myself. I am taking a stand to embrace my curves fully and feel good in my body. I am taking a stand to take my life in my hand and refuse to let any one ridicule me. This is because I fully realise that I am fearfully and wonderfully made in God’s image.

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