Seasonly plump... all year round

First off, I have to mention I should totally be studying right now, but of course it's in those life-or-death moments that I get my best inspiration. So I am just not to be held accountable for what happens tomorrow. When I become a famous writer, it'll look cool, I swear mom!

Anyhow! The initial inspiration for today's little talk is from a poster I saw around McGill today, mentioning a "fat talk free zone." Basically McGill is now creating areas where stuff like "I hate my body", "I look pregnant", "I'm on a diet, I can't eat that" and the likes are forbidden. At first I thought, "well with all these _____-free zones, soon we won't be able to speak AT ALL", but then actually I changed my mind.

The freshman fifteen didn't hit me until last year, when my courses got seriously intense and my social life seriously diminished. Like Miranda in that Lizzie McGuire episode, I felt like food was the only thing I still had control over. And then somehow I used that control to lose control? Anyways. This year I'm trying really hard to get back on track, but it's tough because I'm so busy I have to make decisions like gym vs. sleep. I got my gym membership. I just have yet to make it there. AT LEAST I'M HONEST ABOUT IT. So it's been tough, I got all weight conscious for a bit, and then I began seeing it a lot around me. From sick gym obsessions to eating, like, one carrot per day, I see it all in my program. There's also the weird diets like only eating soup, or thinking water is a meal.

Then on top of that people are constantly talking about their bodies, like how they gained 0.000001 lb and their size 00 doesn't fit anymore and the world must therefore end...  It just drives me nuts. If I didn't like food so much, I would have definitely developed some eating disorder by now. Unfortunately lettuce and me are not on the best of terms, so that's never gonna happen.

Ok I got slightly side-tracked here. My point is fat free zone = warranted. And tell me where it is, I should probably make that my new living space.

But what I'd like to get at tonight is that I've noticed it's all a sham. People are Miranda, they try to control their weight, but there's other, bigger issues.... 100% of the time. For someone who doesn't really believe in endless complaints when there's a solution, I'm not a fan of avoiding one's problems. If you're overly stressed, see someone about it. If you're tired, take a nap (Josh reference from Project Runway). If you're lonely, get involved. There's an easy fix for most of the problems people have. And for some reason everyone chooses to go and take the difficult route, make themselves miserable over it, and focus elsewhere.

So people, let's shed the pounds..... by shedding the dead weight. Whatever the issue, I swear there's a solution. But you have to want to fix it permanently...

...not just diet for a while.

The poster that inspired this post!