I am freaking sick and tired of plus size clothing being advertised on thin women. But even worse was something my friend recently pointed out. Online at Roaman's they don't have plus size women in pictures, but often the outfits themselves are covered with a jacket. It isn't exclusive to Roaman's, it is hard to find fat people modeling PLUS SIZE clothes.

The real punchline? Roaman's sells plus sizes only. They don't have "thin" clothes only thin models.

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So I walked into a Marshalls. It has been a year since I went there in search of bathing suits for me and my 12 year old niece. For me bathing suits looked like ugly floral evening gowns, (like they would have one in my size) for her they offered two pieces of string. So I was a matron and she was slut. This year I wasn't looking for a bathing suit, instead I needed Capri pants, and some summer shirts. Then a miracle happened, I went through the racks and FOUND EXACTLY WHAT I NEEDED in my size with colors I liked. Not only that, but I thought, just for giggles, I'd look though the bathing suits and I found a freakin' Tankini in my size. I can't believe it, I thought as I held the purple and silver bathing suit in my hand. This couldn't be. How could they make a bathing suit so a fat girl can show her belly (and use the bathroom without taking off the entire suit) and have it in an affordable store? Aren't we supposed to wear an ugly flower so no one will know we are fat? Aren't we supposed to wear a skirt over our hideous fat thighs?

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To some people the idea of exercise elicits painful memories of being the target of dodge balls, being picked last regardless of ability, being called a "fat bitch" while riding your bike, or the hardbody yuppie woman telling you that she would "never step foot in the gym if she was your size." Every one of these things has happened to me (except the last one- no one had the guts to say that, they mostly just stared at me. Of course had some person actually said it, we both would never step foot in there again. Because I would gone to jail after breaking her leg).

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Summer is upon us again. Fun times including vacations, walking, swimming, sandals, thigh rashes and gallons upon gallons of sweat. The extra padding that allows us to wear light jackets in fall (where our thin friends are wearing 17 layers) makes us sweat buckets in the summer. So here are some new tips for surviving summer. With some exceptions most of these suggestions can come from household items or are easy to find.

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I just read "The Great Starvation Experiment" by Todd Tucker. It was about "the Minnesota Starvation Experiment" done in the 1940's run by Dr. Ancel Keys. In it 36 conscientious objectors were willing to starve themselves for 24 weeks, so that Dr. Keys could learn more about hunger. How it worked, what is was, and how people who were in the process were more or less likely to behave.

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I recently got a nasty post on my blog. It was not the first one and won't be the last. Being fat is bad enough in the eyes of some people but to be accepting of my size seems to them worse than being a member of NAMBLA. I debated whether to keep the comment or delete it, even discussing it with my follow bloggers. I decided to keep it to show the world that people really do make comments so horribly nasty such as I got where the poster essentially wished that I was dead.

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