The (NOT SO) Skinny Girl

A new study published in the 'International Journal of Fashion Design, Technology, and Education' reveals that the average size of an American woman is now between a 16 to 18, which is an increase from 10-year-old data that indicated most women in the U.S. were a size 14. "I am hoping this will help nudge the fashion industry to seriously consider expanding their sizes," said study author Deborah Christel, Ph.D. LOL...  But you don't make the connection between larger sizes of humans overall and obesity? You don't hope that the results of the 'study' you did encourage people to start eating better and exercising more and you know, stop being obese? You just hope the multi billion dollar fashion industry changes its ways... er, um, sizes. Because... feelings? I mean, anyone who says they can't find clothing in their size is forgetting to tell you the whole story, leaving out key factors like: can't find clothing in their price range, can...

Trigger warning: Liberal dreadlocked poli sci snowflake upset that NJ cost of living is so high she still has to share a bedroom with her teenage sisters.  Basically what I got from this article. Read it here: http://www.nj.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2017/06/new_jersey_millennials_struggling_with_costs_of_li.html#incart_river_home You know me- I had some things to say... Article:  With $25,000 in student loans, her hopes of a settling down in a place of her own in New Jersey with her longtime boyfriend quickly evaporated. (Her student loan payments are currently deferred because of her low salary.) She only had $25,000 in student loan debt? Where did she get the other $75,000 that I'm still paying off? My total student loans were $102,000 when I graduated. I moved home for one month before securing a job in FL. I moved to FL for 6 months until the cost of living became too much under my student loan debt. I moved back to NJ to try to live with my parents. It ...

So it's interesting that the name of this blog is "Not so Skinny Jazzy". I immediately regretted that when I posted my first non-weight loss inspired post. I literally just counted - out of 175 entries, about 13 are about weight loss. Pretty much the first 13 that were written in the 30 days I was doing the strict 30 days of the Isagenix diet. And I look at myself and realize I will have to start that strict 30 again. I will have to start dieting and exercising at least moderately. Since I first started this blog, I have blown up like a balloon. I have never weighed so much in my life, not even with freshman 15 and a fetus inside me. I weigh 145lbs. My "happy weight" (based on BMI) is like 122. Let me interject here- this is exactly why I call myself "not so skinny Jazzy".... There are some people who would say "I wish I weighed 145lbs" and scoff at me and make me feel bad for my feelings. My own family has done this throughout the years. A...

Fat shaming. Slut shaming. Thin shaming. White shaming. Privilege shaming. Straight shaming. Fake tan and comb over shaming. Shame shame shame on you! I had no idea that I am quadruply privileged. Apparently... I need to check my white privilege, my straight privilege, my thin privilege, and my woman privilege. Why does being what I am, make me privileged? Why does working hard and benefiting from it make me privileged? WHY DOS EVERYONE ELSE THINK I'M PRIVILEGED AND I'M ALL OVER HERE LIKE "WOE IS ME.... LIFE SUCKS"???? I think I know the answer. When people are unhappy with things, they like to disagree. Makes sense. I agree with that. When people are unhappy with things that they don't want to take responsibility for, they start to blame/shame other people.  I am fat. I feel lesser.                                  You make me feel lesser. Shame on you! I am black. I feel less...

People are "blaming parents of millennials" for the way their kids turned out.  But think of it this way- OUR parent's(and their parent's before them) generation grew up and raised us by breaking their backs and pinching pennies so we(the children) would have everything we 'wanted and dese rved' and thus they handed us many things with the reasoning that "their parents were never able to do it like this"  ...So instead of us working hard and breaking our backs for things we wanted starting at a very young age(as our parents and grandparents did before us), some of us became accustomed to things being bestowed upon us and grew up thinking that was how the world worked.  Our parents- most of them- were great people only trying to do what they thought was best for us.  But a little bit of working for something and appreciating it when you earned it can surely go a long long way.   I have had a job since I was 12 or so and lived mostly on my ...

I have said it before and I will say it again-- BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE IN THE WORLD. Be it. Do it. Take action. "Teacher tell student 'you and your parents are getting deported'... is this Trump's America?" If we are blaming Trump for the teacher's actions.... If there are people out there blaming Trump for their actions, those people are a huge part of the problem. Those people are the ones inciting fear. Anyone who blames other people for the way they act or present themselves or treat others is a problem. And I feel that problem gets fixed by starting at HOME. Since when did we stop teaching kindness, and equality at HOME. Since when did we stop preaching accountability and respect at HOME? Because all the little a-holes running around running their mouths and not respecting other people, bullying other people, forcing their views on other people, blaming other people are more of a problem than the one man the majority of America e...