New Tattoo, Girl Power

So about a week ago I came across this drawing on tumblr. I asked our tattooer to make it look traditional and voila! I love it so so very much<3

I feel like a fucking badass. I love makeup,clothes,shoes,perfume, and shaving my entire body but that doesn't make me any less of a strong woman.

Hey girl hey!

I've been feeling so good since I decided to accept my body exactly the way it is. I'm not sure when exactly it happened but it's awesome. It's definitely due in large part to Rachel and her totally fearless and what I've decided to call aggressive inspiration. Thank you<3 It's so nice to take photos and not look for flaws, I seriously feel like I have more energy lately because I'm not constantly getting overwhelmed thinking about what I should be doing to change my body.

Ed just wanted to get in the car and get lunch ^___^

Here’s a tip to not feel frustrated and uncomfortable in your clothes: Buy the correct size! Do not buy a size smaller because you want or plan on losing weight, that’s only gonna make you feel like shit. Look cute just the way you are if you happen to drop some weight then get some smaller pants O__O

p.s. I used this tutorial to figure out how to make a gif in photoshop :)

Proud of My Size

This is my first time participating. I've been having so many conflicting thoughts lately about my weight, eating, and fitness. I want to work out mostly for my mental health, it really helps me sleep which helps my mood, anxiety etc. I happen to really like the way my body looks and Ed does too, but ill get this idea in my head that there's no point in working out if I'm not going to look like a fitness model but...i don't want to look like a fitness model (and Ed is really not into that), it's just such a mind fuck.

Secondly I've always been an emotional eater, just because I don't want to deal with things by eating doesn't mean I want to be on a diet or log calories. I feel like I've come a long way though with all of this, a personal victory for me was well posting the above photo and then this one earlier this week.

I thought this photo was funny, it's the only one Ed got of my playing skeeball. I didn't check it afterward to make sure I didn't look fat and then try to take a more "flattering" one, I was having fun. I want to share and remember that we were having fun, so there is my belly! Do I think if I didn't post this people would think I didn't have a belly? I'm 5'7" and fluctuate between 195-200lbs so yeah surprise!!

I also have cellulite! I am Caucasian and have thinish skin, even plus size models are airbrushed and that's kinda fucked...feeling like you're not even the good kind of fat. fuck it. I love my body. I want to eat well and exercise when I feel like it...because sometimes you just don't want to! I want to take care of my mind above all else though and that means loving my body exactly the way it is.

(I'll refrain from linking up I guess even thought my thought on all this are positive I might be out of bounds ^__^)

Dude...I'm fat!

 It's that time of ...something... again when I really make a stab at losing weight. *fingers crossed* that I can be successful again. I thought it would be fun to vlog my weigh ins...pop on over to my other blog for week 1! if you're into that sort of thing ;)

http://DudeImFat.blogspot.com/