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Well hello there! Welcome to the 500th post on Fat Chick Sings! It’s always great when we reach a ROUND number. A 10-K, a 25th or 50th wedding anniversary, a 100 mile bike ride. The goal of meeting ROUND numbers help fuel us, keep us going and move us forward. The joy of reaching round numbers give us an opportunity to pause, celebrate, reflect and take stock.

In the final chapter of my book, The Fat Chick Works Out!, I encourage you to enjoy meeting your exercise goal and then to go ahead and schedule a little rest. And then I go on to define “schedule a little rest”. Schedule, means that you decide when you are going to rest, and for how long. Little means that the rest is long enough to feel like a rest, but not so long as to cause you to lose all the muscles and momentum that you gained. And rest means to actually take a real break from the thing you were doing.

So I’m going to take my own advice and schedule a little 2 week vacation from blogging. Don’t worry, I’ll be back October 1. And during this time, I’m going to reflect on the blog and take stock. The blog may come back looking a little different. Maybe it will have slightly different focus. While I’m reflecting, I’d love to hear from you. What do you like best about the blog? What posts make you say, “meh.”? You can leave me messages in the comments, or write me privately at jeanette at the fat chick dot com.

And it’s not like I’m dropping off the planet entirely.

Remember, if you live in the Bay area, come join us for a Hot Flash Mob in downtown San Francisco THIS Wednesday, September 18. We’ll be meeting at a secret location in the Financial District at 12:15 PM and dancing at 12:30. You can get access to the secret location when you RSVP either on the meetup group, or on the new Facebook event page. I hope to see you there!

And it’s not too late to join me at the Size Diversity Task Force retreat in Las Vegas coming up October 11-13. I’ll be hosting some super fun activities there and we are going to have a BLAST!

Thanks for hanging out with me. See you in two weeks!

Love,

The Fat Chick

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Celebrated my 17th wedding anniversary with the most amazing man in the world yesterday! What a lucky, lucky duck I am. All together I have spent over 25 years and more than half my life with this super awesome guy. Color me completely and totally grateful.

Now why am I telling you about this? Well one reason I’m telling you about it is that I AM grateful, and I want the whole world to know that. But the other reason I’m telling you is to remind you that a lifetime of love with a fabulous partner is possible at any size. I’d call it “Love At Every Size”, except for the somewhat unfortunate acronym generated by that title. Let’s just say that sex, love, marriage, kids and the whole 9 yards are possible even if you aren’t a size 2.

Finding this out was a very important part of my journey to loving the skin I’m in. As a young person, a lot of my frantic dieting was driven by panic. I was terrified that, as a person of size, I wouldn’t or couldn’t find someone to love me. And even after meeting and falling in love with and marrying the “best man in the whole wide world” I was terrified that he would wake up one day, realize that I’m fat and leave me.

So I’m sharing this with you as a reminder. You can find the best partner in the world and even keep that person in your life even if you’re fat. And whether you are ten pounds over what society calls your “ideal weight” or several hundred, there’s someone out there for you. Yeah, I know you may have dated a few duds. Honey, it happens to all of us. But according to the US Census Bureau, the world has a population of over 7 billion people. That’s billion with a “b”. So you met a few potential partners that are less than ideal. Maybe you’ve dated a baker’s dozen. So what? That’s 13 down, and 6,999,999,987 to go.

We need to teach this to our kids and share it with the world “at large”. Your ability to find, give and receive love is not dependent on your BMI. And there’s someone out there for every BODY.

Love,

The Fat Chick