International No Diet Day - May 6, 2010

Take the Pledge!




I Pledge:

* That I will not diet for one day, on May 6, International No Diet Day.

* Instead of trying to change my body to fit someone else's standards, I will accept myself just as I am.

* I will feed myself if I'm hungry.

* I will feel no shame or guilt about my size or about eating.

* I will think about whether dieting has improved my health and well-being or not.

* And I will try to do at least one thing I have been putting off "until I lose weight."

Signed,
Jean C

October 19th - Love Your Body Day

Love Your Body Day 2005 is October 19

Hollywood and the fashion, cosmetics and diet industries work hard to make each of us believe that our bodies are unacceptable and need constant improvement. Print ads and television commercials reduce us to body parts — lips, legs, breasts — airbrushed and touched up to meet impossible standards. TV shows tell women and teenage girls that cosmetic surgery is good for self-esteem. Is it any wonder that more than 80% of fourth-grade girls have been on some form of fad diet?

Women and girls spend billions of dollars every year on cosmetics, fashion, magazines and diet aids. These industries can't use negative images to sell their products without our assistance.

Together, we can fight back.

Love Your Body: What You Can Do

Love Your Body: Get the Facts

Love Your Body Day fights weight bias

Love Your Body Day fights weight bias
Student suggests amending UT's discrimination policy
By Kristin Butler

Laura Gladney-Lemon said she has put up with "fat bias" long enough. After suffering ridicule from people throughout her life, she has decided to take a stand to raise awareness of weight-based discrimination on campus.

"At least once a month, someone on UT campus will be overtly mean to me based on what I look like," the Student Government graduate representative said. "I've had food thrown at me, and people will yell 'pig' or make pig noises at me."

Instead of falling victim to harassment, Gladney-Lemon is proposing that height and weight be added to the non-discrimination policy at the University. In a few weeks, she plans to introduce her height and weight resolution to SG, and then hopefully to the UT administration.

Her efforts reflect her active role in the annual Love Your Body Day, which was recognized Wednesday nationwide. As part of the celebration on campus, "fat rebel" Marilyn Wann, who led a 1999 protest in San Francisco that successfully urged the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to pass a height and weight anti-discrimination ordinance in May 2000, spoke to a crowd of more than 100 people, comprised of both women and men.

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