I've received some questions about the intent of this here site and you know, it's a hard thing to answer. We're about size acceptance. We're about eating healthy and fitness but we make jokes about bacon and sometimes feature things that have a lot of calories in them. We're about beauty and health at any size. We feature weight-loss blogs on a daily basis and Anne writes about her experiences with weight-loss surgery on a daily basis. For some reason, those few points seem at odds with each other. Do we want you to lose weight or do we want you to be happy with yourself as you are? 

Is the goal of this site to fix our heads on the perceptions of weight, or is it to do a subtle Folger's taste test switch on you and when you think you're getting a size-acceptance blog, you're really getting some subtle brainwashing to lose weight?

God, I hope not.

As a contributor to this blog, I can only write what's in my own head. Am I happy with myself, do I find myself beautiful despite being fat, which is normally society's dealbreaker? Yes, I totally feel strong and gorgeous and sexy and all of those awesome adjectives that make you smile. Do I want to focus my attention on ways to improve my health? Definitely, which is why I love the healthy recipes, and why I contribute the Random Goodness stuff, which highlights weird little trivia and tips that are easy ways to make you stronger. When I'm writing a Tasting Menu item, it's because I found something while surfing that I actually stopped to read. I found it interesting and I hope you do too. And sometimes in my attempt to write something more compelling than, "Wow, Serena Williams has a lot of muscle definition," I say something assy, and have to take my textual foot back out of my mouth. But eh, that happens to us all (although in my case, the Serena Williams thing didn't even involve vodka).

Anne, on the other hand, has had a major medical procedure to lose weight, so some of her interest lies in weight loss, hence her daily contribution of the weight-loss blog roundup. And Brooke is all about the gracious entertaining and Southern hospitality while still maintaining her figure. Sarah is pretty much perfect, as far as I can tell, and focuses on healthy eating and generally being awesome. And somewhere in all of this, we derive a multi-faceted website like Elastic Waist.

Here's the thing: We get to have our cake and eat it too. There's no law that says you can't be happy with the size of your ass but also want to exercise and eat right. We don't assume that those means are aimed at weight loss, nor that you need to feel like shit about yourself so that you go work out. In fact, my personal feeling is that if you feel like shit about yourself, you're less likely to go work out because when you're depressed, the damned Stairmaster is the modern equivalent of the medieval rack. No, my experience tells me exactly the opposite and it's when you feel like you could do anything, with no limits, that's when you want to take a five mile walk, singing at the top of your lungs the entire way. And that, my friends, is a beautiful thing. Right there. I wish that for everyone, whether they are trying to lose weight or not.

Likewise, we love to eat. How can we be linking weight-loss blogs and then talk about cupcake recipes? Hey, don't you like to eat good food? Isn't that one of the fucking joys in life, yummy dim sum or white bean dip or glorious glorious bacon? And you know, life is about moderation, in all senses. Body acceptance is about food acceptance too. Saying something is "sinful" or implying that you are bad for indulging in chocolate? You're a grown up. You don't need us to tell you how much to eat of something. We trust you to make those decisions for yourself. And also? We really love bacon and if there's a world without bacon, we want no part of it.

So, how can we be about size acceptance, healthy eating, fitness, weight loss, and weird Posh Spice obsessions, all at the same time?

Simple. Because we can.

--Weetabix