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Essential Self-Care Tips For Fat Folx…
From A Fat Girl
Today’s post is about essential self-care tips for fat folx because it’s important, and I’ve never covered it here. I’ve talked about how to look after yourself when you’re having a bad mental health day and how to learn to love your body as it is. However you feel now, and whatever point you’re at in your self-love journey, it’s essential to learn how to look after yourself. Why? Because you matter! I want you to feel fabulous inside and out :)
You’ll find I use the word fat a lot in this post, and indeed in all my posts. It is not intended to hurt anyone; after all, I’m fat myself! I am working to reclaim the word. Fat should be a description with no negative connotation whatsoever. I want it to be the same as tall, brown-haired or blue-eyed. The fact is I am fat, and that’s ok. I’m not worthless or a lesser person because of it, ok? So let’s get to the essential self-care tips. As ever, this is my personal list and not definitive, but hopefully, it’ll get you started.
1) Wear clothes that fit
As we move through life, our bodies change, and sometimes they get larger. This. Is. Ok. It’s perfectly normal. What’s not ok is being made to feel like such a failure by society for being fat that we squeeze our bodies into clothes that are too small. We’re…
