Comments on: NOW’s Love Your Body Day

By: Dorothy

Dorothy — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:56:19 +0000

(((Stellar Dendrite))) I’m so sorry! I have chronic pain from arthritis which gets worse every year (I’ve had it for about 16 years and it’s pretty much in every joint by now) so I know it’s hard. Mine’s osteo at least so it could be lots worse. I know it’s hard to have your body not work the way you want it to and to be in constant pain. My pain isn’t that bad, mostly, and I’m blessed with a high pain tolerance but constant pain drags you down. I know you hurt far worse than I and are far sicker and my heart hurts for you. I wish I could make it better for you. Might it help at all to find one thing you could love about your body and just really focus on loving that part? Or maybe being glad you can do x, whatever x might be? I don’t know what the problem is so I don’t know how limited your choices are. I think at least wanting to love your body is indeed the first step and maybe that’s the only step you need to take right now. If things are especially hard please don’t add not loving your body to your list of things that are making life difficult. I hope things get better for you and I’m sending good thoughts your way.

By: Linz

Linz — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 06:00:16 +0000

LauraAnne, they sell chocolate vaginas on my campus every February, to raise money for the Vagina Monologues. The chocolate they are made from is SO GOOD. I wish they were available year-round.

Also, one year there was a girl selling them by singing “Chocolate Vagina” to the tune of “Waltzing Matilda.”

By: LauraAnne

LauraAnne — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:05:04 +0000

I didn’t know about this either, but let me tell you how it was celebrated on Virgina Tech’s campus:

Students set up a table on the Drillfield (a field you have to cross a couple times a day) with a flyer that translated the cost of various “beauty” procedures into other neat things. A breast augmentation = a trip overseas. They also had a flyer about Plan B, wearing condoms, and two HUGE displays about poisonous beauty depictions in popular media. One was the “Bad” the other was the “Good”.

But the BEST thing they had was homemade chocolate lollipops in the shape of vaginas/vulvas. They had HUGE signs with “VAGINA POPS!” on it and had flavored them in several delightful fruit flavors. If you’ve seen the molds used for making lollipops then you’ve got the general idea. It was a flat, oval base with all of the relevant parts on the front.

Relaying all of this to my mother, we decided that while the fruit flavors were a nice touch, they could have had a lot of fun with dark chocolate and white chocolate and mixing them together to get differing skin tones. Sadly, I did not see anyone walking away with one of these pops and declined myself on the basis of diabetes. But really, on second thought, that is a pretty good reason to have high blood sugar, yea?

By: ladykuri

ladykuri — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:08:01 +0000

Cool! Didn’t know about it, but I got a good night’s sleep, took a nice invigorating walk to Target and bought some absolutely awesome cute undies and have bras on the schedule for this evening after the hubby gets home with the car (cause I can only walk so far, and besides, it’s raining now). Oh, and I had a very yummy sandwich for breakfast, and some cheese for lunch (probably have something else here in a bit, but all I wanted earlier was cheese).

After I get done bra shopping it’ll be time for a nice pampering session- break out the bath goodies and lock everyone out of the bathroom!

By: Nomie

Nomie — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:05:53 +0000

Unfortunately I’m with Emsy on this one – massive head cold and an earache equals looking at my body and going “WHY SO GROSS AND WEIRD?” Blech. Also, I used a neti pot for the first time today. That was bizarre. And gross. Did I mention how gross it was yet?

By: Stellar Dendrite

Stellar Dendrite — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:51:07 +0000

i am having a difficult time loving my body today. i am chronically ill, and having a hard time lately…so i’m not exactly in ‘yay, my body is so super great!’ mode.

but i want to be, even if i’m fat and in extreme pain. i want to be. and i think that maybe wanting to be is possibly the first step.

By: himawari

himawari — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:24:42 +0000

Yay! :-)

I started off the morning with a wonderfully invigorating 1.5 mile swim and weights at the gym, I put on a cute skirt, and I’m going to get to try to go to bed early tonight and get the rest I need.

By: JuliaRS

JuliaRS — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:04:02 +0000

Cool! I'm with Twistie -- Wednesdays are when my community chorus rehearses, so I'll be celebrating tonight by using my body to make (hopefully) beautiful noises. Even in the days when I hated my body, singing was the one thing that made me feel good about myself and my body. And the chorus that I'm in now has such a huge variety of ages, shapes, and sizes! It's so cool to realize that all these different types of people are joining together to make beautiful music. [On tonight's schedule: Verdi's Requiem. I've never sung it before, so learning it now is such a HUGE TREAT. It's gorgeous and challenging and SO MUCH FUN.]

By: kateharding

kateharding — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:58:31 +0000

I intend to get myself a really great lunch and lol my fat while wearing my finest velvets.

I love you.

By: earlgreyrooibos

earlgreyrooibos — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:57:18 +0000

Wow, I didn’t even know this existed!

I ordered some Lunapads this morning, which I will count as celebrating even though I didn’t know today was LYBD. Because non-Kotex/Always menstrual products actually make me *gasp* not hate my period, so the purchase will definitely help contribute to my loving my body.

And then I will go to yoga, which I have been skipping recently. My practice needs to be reinvigorated!

I have a full day of work and a full night AFTER work, so maybe I will extend the celebration into tomorrow as well.