A Good Little Girls Zine

#transformationtuesday

Trigger: 

Your before and after weight loss pic #transformationtuesday

Thought: 

A waterfall 

of shoulds…

I should be less stressed, 

I should lose weight, 

I should not eat as much sugar, 

I should be able to lose weight, 

I should be able to not stress eat, 

I should work a less stressful job, 

I should find a better paying job, 

I should have lost the weight already, 

I should stop tracking my food, 

I should continue tracking my food, 

I should eat less carbs, 

I should workout more, 

I should be smaller, 

smaller, 

smaller, 

should shrink 

and celebrate 

the shrink.

Disrupt: 

I should be me. I am teaching in the most challenging time in education. I am exhausted. I have been bleeding for 4 weeks. I am me. I am eating and walking and doing what I need. I am showing up for me and them every day. Her weight loss is not a reflection of my body. We are not the same person. Different bodies. Separate bodies. Separate minds. Separate lives.

Separate yourself from the hive mindset
to
be
skinny. 

Mend: 

Women are beautiful with bellies and thick thighs, and wide ass asses and hips. I am beautiful. I am.

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Sonia Chintha

Sonia Chintha is an Indian American writer who lives in the Washington DC area. She blogs, writes poetry, and fiction. She is also an English teacher who believes that our experiences teach us more than any test. She is the founder and co-editor of Good Little Girls.

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