Words to live by.

"Life isn’t about how many people call you and it’s not about who you’ve dated, are dating, or haven’t dated at all. It’s not about grades, money, clothes, or colleges that accept you or not. Life isn’t about if you have lots of friends, or if you are alone, and it’s not about how accepted or unaccepted you are. Life just isn’t about that. But life is about who you love and who you hurt. It’s about how you feel about yourself. It’s about trust, happiness, and compassion. It’s about sticking up for your friends and replacing inner hate with love. Life is about avoiding jealousy, overcoming ignorance, and building confidence. It’s about what you say and what you mean. It’s about seeing people for who they are and not for what they have. Most of all, it’s about living your life to touch someone else’s."

I found that at http://fuckyeahconfidence.tumblr.com .

It's so very true and I try to live by every word. fuckyeahconfidence is a great blog about learning to love yourself! I read it every day!

Isn't it beautiful?

So, I discovered this picture on Tumblr. (Yes. I have a tumblr. If you'd like to know which it is, let me know. =] ) It was on http://voluptuosity.tumblr.com . I love this particular blog because pretty much every post is a GORGEOUS picture of a BBW.

This picture, to me, is SO powerful. I think all big girls should embody this! Keep your head held high and own your body, because it's beautiful.

New rule.

I shan't ignore this place anymore. =)

So I've been doing alot of thinking lately, and I've made a firm decision for the route of this blog.

I've been looking at alot of fat acceptance activism blogs in the recent weeks and I've drawn the conclusion that I'm really not fond of the approach alot of them take. Many of them simply focus on the negatives; how the media tears fat people down, how the industry discriminates against us, how people always judge us. They focus on everything WRONG with the fatisphere instead of what's beautiful and RIGHT with it. So instead of talking about the problems we face and always being in battle mode, this blog is going to take a different direction.

This is going to be a feel-good fat acceptance blog. ANYTHING negative that I post from here on out will have some sort of happy ending. Or a silver lining.

-Khanny <3

I think falling in love with yourself is difficult.

I'm trying to learn to love myself in a healthy way. It's really not easy. I mean... anyone can love them selves to the point where they become self-important and arrogant... But to love yourself in such a way that actually makes you a better person?




Really. Freakin'. Hard.




I mean... I try to wake up each morning and compliment myself when I look in the mirror. I try to think positively about my accomplishments. I try to be confident and assertive... but all of these things are harder than they sound! While trying to do all of these things, I finding 5 negatives for each positive that I can come up with.




I really want to have a healthy relationship with myself. To learn to trust myself and be happy.




I just didn't expect it to be so difficult.




But you know, there're these moments where it all comes together. I look in the mirror and I can see beauty and confidence. Not only do I SEE it, I FEEL it.




Those moments have been rare so far, but they're totally encouraging. In those moments I can feel myself loving.... me. =) And they're worth it. Very much so.




I just have to keep it up.



-Khanny<3

OHAI!

Th' name's Khanida. =) Nice to meet you.



A few things about me:

• I'm 19 years old.
• I live in Canada.
• I am very artistic.
• I am very musical.
• I consider myself to be intelligent.
• I'm slowly falling in love with myself. (In the healthy way.)
• I am fat.
  

And most importantly:

I am beautiful.

This little patch of internet is for me to celebrate myself and my journey to a new-found love for my body-- no matter WHAT size it is.



Hope I can bring smiles and inspiration to others out there on the same path!



-Khanny. <3