a friend of mine sent me a cnn article in an IM yesterday.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/personal/01/04/dating.site.overweight/index.html

this is an article about a dating and social networking site called www.beautifulpeople.com. the website is designed exclusively for people members of the site deem attractive. the website recently kicked out FIVE THOUSAND members because they were "too heavy".

i debated posting this here as i didn't want to trigger anyone, but ultimately, i want you all to see it. this clearly illustrates how warped society's perception of what is beautiful is. i hope all of you will realize how ridiculous the rest of the world's "beautiful standards" are. love yourselves. i hope that all of us-myself included-can finally get to the point where we stop feeling bad every time we pick up a magazine. half those models and entertainers don't even look as perfect in actuality as they do on the covers. you can thank photoshop for that.

so what's the point guys? what's the point of trying to be perfect? no one is perfect. we were not meant to live this way. we were meant to enjoy the lives we have. not be miserable because we can't get to a size 4.

i pray that we can all beat our ED's. one meal at a time. one meeting at a time. one encouraging DS post at a time. moment by moment, we can beat our demons. love you all.

sorry if the article triggers anyone.-fallon