Elizabeth Patch's More to Love Blog » Body Image http://elizabethpatch.com Art & Inspiration for All Sizes! Sat, 21 Jan 2012 21:58:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 2012: Live a Large Life! http://elizabethpatch.com/2011/12/2012-live-a-large-life.html http://elizabethpatch.com/2011/12/2012-live-a-large-life.html#comments Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:24:47 +0000 elizabeth patch http://elizabethpatch.com/?p=6438 In 2012: Live a large life, whatever size you wear!

The interwebs are full of good ideas for New Year’s Resolutions (and lots of reasons why they fail!) so I’ll just give you one simple sentence to start the New Year off on a positive note: I live a large life whatever size I wear!

2011 New Year’s

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Smiles! elizabeth

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I never let my size determine the shape of my dreams!

Go get a piece of paper. Make a list of every single thing that you wanted to be when you were a kid. Yes, even rockstar!

Get another piece of paper. Make a list of every single thing that you would love to be now, as

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]]> http://elizabethpatch.com/2011/12/rock-your-dreams.html/feed 5 Ate Like a Pig. Feel Like a Whale. http://elizabethpatch.com/2011/11/ate-like-a-pig-feel-like-a-whale.html http://elizabethpatch.com/2011/11/ate-like-a-pig-feel-like-a-whale.html#comments Sat, 26 Nov 2011 03:28:35 +0000 elizabeth patch http://elizabethpatch.com/?p=6232 I ate like a pig. Now I feel like a whale. Or maybe a hippo, or an elephant or a blubbery walrus. I am a disgusting, worthless big fat ugly cow…

A “food hangover” is a very real physical feeling: Your belly is bloated and your clothes feel uncomfortably tight around the waist. Maybe you are also gassy,

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I just Googled “real woman” and got over 4,000,000 results.

Sometimes “real woman” is a scientific description of chromosomes and hormonal levels, sometimes it refers to religious or cultural ideas about how women should behave, sometimes its about being trans-gender. But more often than not the term “real woman” is a reference to a women whose body

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The 3rd Annual Lady Land Holiday Insanity illustration is here!

The holidays can be an enormously stressful time of year.

There’s pressure to spend money you may not have, pressure to shop for gifts out of obligation rather than need, and the added pressure to bake, decorate and entertain around your already busy life.

And

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I recently spent a 4-day weekend with my girlfriends in a tiny town in Vermont. We walked in the gloriously green landscape, adoring the quaint architecture, big red barns, and the blissfully quiet atmosphere. We went to a farmer’s market and an arts & crafts fair, stopped into cute little boutiques to admire one-of-a-kind things, and shopped at

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Imagine the day when we laugh with our friends… And never once, not once, mention diets !

©elizabeth patch, More to Love

I’m so fat. I hate my thighs. I really shouldn’t eat this. I need to lose some weight. I need to get some exercise. How many calories are in this? Diet, diet, diet, blah, blah, blah…

Many of us have

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Two things I love about going to the beach are finding seashells and watching people.

A perfectly flawless shell is a rare discovery, but the shells that are tossed and worn by the tides are far more interesting in their unique individuality, because of the imperfections.

The variety of people

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