Category : Life
Blog 20
Chunky Chauny
Well, this past weekend (Saturday night) got about as "crunk" as it could get. I've been taking the last few days to decide whether or not I should include the sultry/ steamy details of an impromptu gathering at my house Saturday. 😁💦 I've pondered many things, including how I and my cohorts would be viewed after exposing some of the 'personal' details of that night. While I'm not usually prone to being persuaded by what the masses think, I've decided to protect the (somewhat) innocent by just leaving that subject alone entirely. I will say this though, Saturday was the most fun I'd had in a while and I'm VERY blessed to have the friends I have. 💖 And to borrow the sentiment expressed by a good friend of mine that night; "What happens at Chauny's house, stays at Chauny's house”. 🤐 Subject closed. Now, in an attempt to divert your attention to something else, I want to talk about something that I've been pretty pissed about lately. I want to talk about my weight. Yes, you read that right! Over the past 2 years, I've made certain life-style changes that allowed me to lose almost 100 pounds. 🍪🍩🍰🚫 Now, I'd always been considered a cute chunky girl and I really didn't have any huge self confidence issues but I definitely thought it was time to make a change. That change would hopefully influence very important people in my life, which it has, that alone makes the drastic lifestyle change worth it. I'm proud to say that in the past 2 years, I was brought down from a hefty size 18/ 20 (maybe 20/22) to a size 10/ 12. I realize that 10/ 12 isn't exactly petite but it's okay with me. It also seems to agree with my rather large 5 foot 8 inch frame. However (to my absolute horror), I'm finding now that in weight loss advertisements, the BEFORE size is now 10 and the AFTER size is like 4. What tha hell??? 😳 What happened to starting off at a size 26 and getting down to a size 14? When the heck did "10" become the size of a morbidly obese person worthy of being the BEFORE size on a weight loss commercial? That really irks me!!! 😠 My research suggests that the average American woman wears a size 14 (though I don't know the average height of the average American woman). Do you know what I'd look like if I wore a size 4? Given that I'd always been teased about the size of my head (and I don't think I'd lose much weight there), I figured I'd look something like a chocolate-flavored Blow Pop. Not a pleasant visual I don't mind telling you. Until just recently, I'd been very impressed with the women represented in today's commercials; regular looking, chunky, average..the way most of us actually are. I'd even gotten a little excited at Milan's very recent decision to ban models from the catwalk that were too skinny. Milan says that the fashion industry has a responsibility to also represent a more realistic picture of the women of the world. Then comes these dad-gum commercials suggesting size 10 as the old size 20 (kinda like age 30 being the new 20 I guess). This just plain stinks and it's positively unfair! I have to say that I'd always found myself fortunate to have come from a culture where skinny=sick (usually). 🤢 Fortunately, there are a great many brothas out there that appreciate a big booty or a "healthy" woman. In my community, when someone loses a whole lot of weight, the first question that's asked of them is, "Were you sick or something?" 🤒 I even remember a friend of mine in college telling me that he preferred Ethel Mertz to Lucy Ricardo because Ethel was the thick and fine one. That's (primarily) the attitude in African-American society. But I don't just live in Black America, I live in America. All my effort of giving up sugar entirely (which I would imagine would be like giving up crack cocaine), banning elevators at work and generally just watching everything I eat, has all seemed like a colossal waste of time. I'll just have to reluctantly accept the old adage that 'you can never be too rich or too thin'. However, if you could actually visualize a 5 foot 8 inch Chocolate Blow Pop with big eyes👀, hair and teeth lurking around, (ultimately) you may not agree with the "not be too thin" part of that adage.
Posted : 2006-09-27 08:43:00 AM Created : 2006-09-27 10:57:00 AM Visible to : Public
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