My So-Called “Diet” - Ramblings and Musings of a Wife, Mom, and Chocoholic

The other day I posted about a magazine that’s out there for plus size gals called Figure Magazine.  I received a comment from a man named Glen.  He has a blog called Full Figure Plus.  He, you say? Yep! As he explains in his introduction, he’s both the husband of a full-figured woman and grew up in a full-figured household.  He has lived and does live life in a plus sized world! His blog was born from his wife’s frustrations about finding good looking, well-fitting plus sized fashions and lingerie, a sentiment I’m sure any BBW out there can echo.  His blog contains a plethora of links, articles, and blog entries regarding plus sized fashion, health and fitness, beauty tips, size acceptance and size discrimination, plus much more. This is one site you’ll want to make sure you bookmark! Thanks for stopping by my blog, Glen - glad to have found your blog as a result, too!

A recent article I read on Yahoo! News reiterated the importance of portion control not only in the effort to lose weight, but to control blood sugar as well.  You can link to the full story here: http://tinyurl.com/2y4f7t. It makes perfect sense, when you think about it.  I know I’m not particularly good at eyeballing a portion size; what my eye thinks is one portion vs. what other eyes think is a portion are totally different.  And obviously, I’ve got an issue with portion control or I wouldn’t be in the boat I’m in with weighing too much!  The other day, I stumbled upon the most amazing weight loss success story, a man by the name of David Smith.  You’ll see a link to his story over here on the right side of the blog.  The trainer he worked so hard with, named Chris Powell, came up with an ingenious system called the Stax System.  It’s all based on this important rule of proper portion control.  (There’s a link over on the side for his website as well.)  I’m thinking I might invest in one of these, as not only is it portion control, but looks like a very convenient way to plan your day’s menu regardless if you’re leaving the house for the day or will be at home.  I strongly encourage you to check out David’s site and the Stax System site and see what you think.  (Thanks to tinyurl.com for making long URL’s so much easier!)

I stumbled upon this yesterday and thought I’d share.  Like many of you BBW/plus-sized gals, I’m a former Mode and BBW Magazine subscriber, and have been keeping an eye on the magazine racks at the grocery and book stores in hopes that another one might come along soon.  Enter Figure Magazine.  Not only does it touch on beauty and fashion, but also includes articles on relationships, body, mind & spirit, food & entertaining, and has a community section to allow readers to meet fellow Figure readers.  I don’t know about you, but somewhere in this whole struggle with being happy with myself, I forgot how to feel pretty.  I rarely do my makeup anymore, and hairstyle? Yeah, right.  I have no hairstyle. I’ve never been able to relate to the models in the ‘mainstream’ fashion magazines like Vogue, Glamour, and Cosmopolitan.  Not because they aren’t beautiful; they are.  They’re just not plus-sized.  Seeing plus-sized women look, feel, and act beautiful, confident, sexy, and happy is just the dose of medicine this ’sleeping’ beauty needs!