Large and In Charge Manifesto

I wanted the URL of this blog to be Large and in Charge, but unfortunately, someone had already snapped up that title, although the person who has that title hasn't posted to their blog since 2003.

The purpose of this blog is twofold.

1. To help people achieve their optimum healthy weight
2. To help large people realize that they've under attack. And it's women, really, who are under attack and always have been.

The male ruling class (and regardless of what class - poor, middle class, rich) people are in, the males have always been de facto rulers of that class) has long wanted women to be sylph-like. Don't forget the 1800s when women had to wear whale-bone corsets to give them an "hour glass shape." The corsets had to be so tight that fainting couches were placed at the top of staircases so that the women climbing up the stairs could faint into them at the end. How sick is that?

Don't get me wrong, this isn't an attack on men per se. After all, guys have their own problems. If they're not 6 feet tall and look like James Bond, try getting to be an action-adventure hero. (Although, all the nerds and "tubbies" on TV seem to have no problems getting beautiful, slender women to marry them...).

Anyway, my main problem is with the advertising industry. That's the industry that has been attacking women for over a hundred years, such that now the epidemic of insecure, body-obsessed, eating-disordered females is at an all-time high.

And I'm sick of it, and this blog will be written to empower you.

I don't care what you look like. Your appearance doesnt' matter. What does matter is your health. When you are young, your body is young, and you can carry your extra weight with relative ease. (I'm speaking in general). But then you get old. And unfortunately, old age comes to everybody. And then all of a sudden, you can't do the things you used to do. If it used to be hard to get off a chair, now its impossible. If you used to be able to walk slowly up or down stairs, now you have to inch up or down them because one of your knees aches like the dickens.

Try to take a walk in the sunshine, you'll be sweating buckets by the time you get home and unpleasant deposits of sweat will be all the folds of your flesh.

There's just so many reasons to be at a healthy weight - and as far as I'm concerned, being up to over 20 pounds overweight (no more) is completely healthy. Being 20 pounds overweight is a lot healthier for you than being 5 pounds underweight.

The time has come for women to stop obsessing about their weight. To stop apologizing for being large. To stop allowing other people to intimidate them with their "significant glances" or their sneering smiles.

Don't get me wrong. If your doctor tells you you must lose weight because you're fat, I'm not suggesting that you sue him. I'm saying, don't be offended by such comments. Doctors are supposed to help you keep your health. It all depends on how fat you are. I'll repeat myself, being 20 pounds overweight is no problem.

Well...the problem lies in that if you're 20 pounds overweight, and you gain 5 more pounds, you're at the tipping point of unhealthiness. Whereas, if you're 15 pounds over weight, you can gain five poound and still be healthy...

I'm not going to go into all that now, that's what this blog will do in future entries.

What I am saying is that it is time that large women stopped being ashamed or embarrassed about being large. It is time large women stand up for themselves and say, yes, I would like another piece of cake, thank you very much.

There are a lot of psychological issues that can go into being overweight, as well as hereditary and so on. I will discuss all of that in future blog entries. If you are significantly overweight, you can lose that weight and keep it off - and more importantly enjoy your life, and I am going to help you do it.