Shed your weight problem here.

Are you too voluptuous for Vogue?  Too curvy for Cosmopolitan?  Too weighty for Women's Health?

Well guess what: the reason you THINK you're fat is because these pieces of trash have led you to believe it's true.

Want a real slice of reality?  50 years ago, the average model weighed only 8% less than the average American woman.  Now, it's almost 25%.  Let me play a numbers game with you to illustrate this: models weigh in around 110 pounds, and are airbrushed down to under 100.  We (normal women) weigh in much closer to 150.  Do you really want to spend the next 10 years trying to lose 50 pounds to look like a model?

Here's a new rule: magazines are no longer allowed to tell you whether or not you're beautiful.  You are the only person who can make that decision.  The fact that some horribly unhappy woman sitting in some far-off corporate office has decided that clothes hang better off of women who are paid to starve themselves is no excuse for you to hate your body.

So here's the deal.  Stop defining your beauty by models, stop trying to look like them, and get on with your life. #