Happy birthday, Kat! For your birthday, I'm declaring a moratorium on dim sum-related guilt. Today, they have no carbs!
That's not what making out sounds like -- unless I'm doing it wrong?
Willow ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Natter 45: Smooth as Billy Dee Williams.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
amych - Jul 26, 2006 1:28:14 pm PDT #8924 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Kat - Jul 26, 2006 1:29:14 pm PDT #8925 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Dim sum is so good. And my friend D, who is totally 70 year old boyfriend, took me and Lori to his favorite place in Arcadia.
Except for this...over the past 6 months I've lost 35+ lbs and I'm down into a size I've never been in my life. I'm one of those sizes that stores in LA run out of when they still have everything in size 8 and larger. So to eat carbs and to know that I will pay for it makes me guilty.
eta x post with amych. I WISH it were true. I wish I could enjoy a bottle of champagne tonight too.
Stupid catholicism.
Sheryl - Jul 26, 2006 1:41:22 pm PDT #8926 of 10002
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Happy Birthday Kat!
JZ - Jul 26, 2006 1:41:31 pm PDT #8927 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Official word from a Catholic: Bread and wine are a weekly sacrament; some dim sum and a bit of champagne for the first time in months and months and months are not only not guilt-worthy, they're practically a moral obligation.
Which is not to belittle the nastiness of the body-image demons or the frustration of feeling the difference after one day's indulgence (or the shittiness of being normal sized and living in the heart of Skinnyland). It's just... dammit, pleasures ought to be pleasurable. You've got months of dietary goodness under your now-rather-smaller belt, and unless you ate enough dim sum to gain back the entire 35+ pounds, the BIDs should declare a birthday truce and lay off you for a single day.
Burrell - Jul 26, 2006 1:41:36 pm PDT #8928 of 10002
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Er, why is catholicism anti-champagne? Or is it just pro-guilt?
Kat - Jul 26, 2006 1:46:25 pm PDT #8929 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
just pro-guilt.
It's weird, right?
I have worked really hard to get to this size and yet when I look in the mirror I don't look different. Yet I know I am different looking. I can do a one-armed handstand and I have relearned how to do a backhandspring and every month or so when I slip one more size, I know I'm smaller. But it doesn't connect to what I see in the mirror.
sometimes I think I'm an eating disorder that lacks self-control or willpower.
Kathy A - Jul 26, 2006 1:48:03 pm PDT #8930 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Considering that champagne was invented by a Catholic monk (thank you, Dom Perignon!), I'm guessing it's the guilt. Although at all the Irish Catholic weddings I remember attending in my family, the sparkly drink of choice was Asti Spumante. I didn't try champagne until after college, when I fell in love with the stuff one NYE.
-t - Jul 26, 2006 1:48:53 pm PDT #8931 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That is one hell of an accomplishment, Kat! Congratulations and enjoy whatever you can allow yourself to.
Aims - Jul 26, 2006 1:49:42 pm PDT #8932 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Wow. I haven't seen you in person in a long time Kat, and well, wow. I know your (general) eyes don't always register what is really there, but you *are* smaller than the last time I saw you. You look really good.
amych - Jul 26, 2006 1:50:33 pm PDT #8933 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
You've done fantastic work, and I've been blown away by your willpower again and again (even if I haven't commented often enough)! So whatever demon that is talking, it not only needs to stop beating you up Right The Hell Now, it's also just plain wrong.