It is and you as well, just working and been busy. Bought a spa, a pellet grill and redoing our back yard. If you want great food, get a pellet grill. Grill fish, and veggies and it tastes great! Low fat, low cal, I lost 10 pounds cooking on that thing. I have stayed away from bread and pasta.
Congratulations on your weight loss too.
I am getting tired of hearing these obese people try to make it sound as if obesity is some kind of "fashion statement." Obesity is bad for our health, costs us billions of dollars in medical expenses and is just as bad as smoking! Encouraging obesity is like encouraging smoking or any other bad habit. Obesity is NOT fashionable and for a very good reason!
While I think the CEO's comments about obese people were rather crude, I think this woman is even worse to push such an unhealthy lifestyle. If a 10-year-old is on a diet because he or she is overweight, then that is a GOOD thing!
'Attractive & Fat' and Abercrombie controversy - CNN.com
Jes Baker is cutting retailer Abercrombie & Fitch down to size.
Baker, who blogs under the name "The Militant Baker" and wears a size 22, changed the brand's A&F logo to "Attractive & Fat" in a mock, black-and-white Abercrombie ad to challenge the line's branding efforts.
The photos come as a provocative response to contentious comments Abercrombie CEO Mike Jeffries made in a 2006 Salon article about the multibillion-dollar brand's target audience.
"In every school there are the cool and popular kids, and then there are the not-so-cool kids," Jeffries said. "Candidly, we go after the cool kids. We go after the attractive all-American kid with a great attitude and a lot of friends. A lot of people don't belong [in our clothes], and they can't belong. Are we exclusionary? Absolutely."
The divisive remarks resurfaced earlier this month after a series of protests went viral, from Greg Karber's video of himself giving homeless people Abercrombie clothing to a Change.org petition for larger sizes by a teenage eating disorder survivor.
The plus-size community particularly took umbrage to the CEO's business model because the retailer currently does not offer clothes above size 10 or large for women.
"I challenge the separation of attractive and fat, and I assert that they are compatible regardless of what you believe," Baker, 26, wrote in a public letter addressed to the CEO.
Jeffries has since apologized in a statement: "While I believe this 7-year-old, resurrected quote has been taken out of context, I sincerely regret that my choice of words was interpreted in a manner that has caused offense."
Baker spoke to CNN about Jeffries' comments and her motivations to address them. The interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.
CNN: You start your letter with a preface that Jeffries' opinion "isn't shocking; millions share the same sentiment." The comments are from 2006 -- what motivated you to act on them?
Jes Baker: It really wasn't upset or outrage at all. I've been an art major for the majority of my academic life, and so I am always trying to find opportunities to do something artistic.
I just thought we don't see the juxtaposition of typical and atypical bodies in advertising specifically. Since I am a woman and I am fat and that's what I have to work with, I wanted to show that contrast by finding a male model.
Really, it just came because I wanted to not be angry about it. I wanted to not say, "This is an outrage, I've never heard of this before," but say, "OK, well, look at this. Look at how awesome this is."
And, I think when you're talking about really serious subjects, and this is kind of serious, it's important to be a little bit cheeky and pull in a little bit of humor so that it's approachable -- and it worked.
Very interesting and very difficult subject. There is a national hysteria about obesity in America. There is no dialog or cure, because the fat acceptance movement represents all institutions that make money with obesity. I think the worst is that obesity forces misery on other people. You will live forever only getting more and more obese every year. Currently the American national obesity statistics is at 75 %. How does obesity work? Yyou can't have healthy relationships under the condition of obesity so is it the drugs that Americans are after I guess? Hmmm.
Huh? What drugs? You have to be more specific.
I don't really know what drugs, but if you are a fatso and you have already stomped all your friends into the ground for your amusement, then what is left for you to enjoy in life?
I'm not getting what point you are trying to make. I think most of the time, people who do drugs are skinny and not fat (illegal drugs anyways), because they don't eat well.
I am getting tired of hearing these obese people try to make it sound as if obesity is some kind of "fashion statement." Obesity is bad for our health, costs us billions of dollars in medical expenses and is just as bad as smoking! Encouraging obesity is like encouraging smoking or any other bad habit. Obesity is NOT fashionable and for a very good reason!
While I think the CEO's comments about obese people were rather crude, I think this woman is even worse to push such an unhealthy lifestyle. If a 10-year-old is on a diet because he or she is overweight, then that is a GOOD thing!
'Attractive & Fat' and Abercrombie controversy - CNN.com
Jes Baker is cutting retailer Abercrombie & Fitch down to size.
Baker, who blogs under the name "The Militant Baker" and wears a size 22, changed the brand's A&F logo to "Attractive & Fat" in a mock, black-and-white Abercrombie ad to challenge the line's branding efforts.
The photos come as a provocative response to contentious comments Abercrombie CEO Mike Jeffries made in a 2006 Salon article about the multibillion-dollar brand's target audience.
"In every school there are the cool and popular kids, and then there are the not-so-cool kids," Jeffries said. "Candidly, we go after the cool kids. We go after the attractive all-American kid with a great attitude and a lot of friends. A lot of people don't belong [in our clothes], and they can't belong. Are we exclusionary? Absolutely."
The divisive remarks resurfaced earlier this month after a series of protests went viral, from Greg Karber's video of himself giving homeless people Abercrombie clothing to a Change.org petition for larger sizes by a teenage eating disorder survivor.
The plus-size community particularly took umbrage to the CEO's business model because the retailer currently does not offer clothes above size 10 or large for women.
"I challenge the separation of attractive and fat, and I assert that they are compatible regardless of what you believe," Baker, 26, wrote in a public letter addressed to the CEO.
Jeffries has since apologized in a statement: "While I believe this 7-year-old, resurrected quote has been taken out of context, I sincerely regret that my choice of words was interpreted in a manner that has caused offense."
Baker spoke to CNN about Jeffries' comments and her motivations to address them. The interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.
CNN: You start your letter with a preface that Jeffries' opinion "isn't shocking; millions share the same sentiment." The comments are from 2006 -- what motivated you to act on them?
Jes Baker: It really wasn't upset or outrage at all. I've been an art major for the majority of my academic life, and so I am always trying to find opportunities to do something artistic.
I just thought we don't see the juxtaposition of typical and atypical bodies in advertising specifically. Since I am a woman and I am fat and that's what I have to work with, I wanted to show that contrast by finding a male model.
Really, it just came because I wanted to not be angry about it. I wanted to not say, "This is an outrage, I've never heard of this before," but say, "OK, well, look at this. Look at how awesome this is."
And, I think when you're talking about really serious subjects, and this is kind of serious, it's important to be a little bit cheeky and pull in a little bit of humor so that it's approachable -- and it worked.
Very interesting and very difficult subject. There is a national hysteria about obesity in America. There is no dialog or cure, because the fat acceptance movement represents all institutions that make money with obesity. I think the worst is that obesity forces misery on other people. You will live forever only getting more and more obese every year. Currently the American national obesity statistics is at 75 %. How does obesity work? Yyou can't have healthy relationships under the condition of obesity so is it the drugs that Americans are after I guess? Hmmm.
Huh? What drugs? You have to be more specific.
I don't really know what drugs, but if you are a fatso and you have already stomped all your friends into the ground for your amusement, then what is left for you to enjoy in life?
I'm not getting what point you are trying to make. I think most of the time, people who do drugs are skinny and not fat (illegal drugs anyways), because they don't eat well.
I am getting tired of hearing these obese people try to make it sound as if obesity is some kind of "fashion statement." Obesity is bad for our health, costs us billions of dollars in medical expenses and is just as bad as smoking! Encouraging obesity is like encouraging smoking or any other bad habit. Obesity is NOT fashionable and for a very good reason!
While I think the CEO's comments about obese people were rather crude, I think this woman is even worse to push such an unhealthy lifestyle. If a 10-year-old is on a diet because he or she is overweight, then that is a GOOD thing!
'Attractive & Fat' and Abercrombie controversy - CNN.com
Jes Baker is cutting retailer Abercrombie & Fitch down to size.
Baker, who blogs under the name "The Militant Baker" and wears a size 22, changed the brand's A&F logo to "Attractive & Fat" in a mock, black-and-white Abercrombie ad to challenge the line's branding efforts.
The photos come as a provocative response to contentious comments Abercrombie CEO Mike Jeffries made in a 2006 Salon article about the multibillion-dollar brand's target audience.
"In every school there are the cool and popular kids, and then there are the not-so-cool kids," Jeffries said. "Candidly, we go after the cool kids. We go after the attractive all-American kid with a great attitude and a lot of friends. A lot of people don't belong [in our clothes], and they can't belong. Are we exclusionary? Absolutely."
The divisive remarks resurfaced earlier this month after a series of protests went viral, from Greg Karber's video of himself giving homeless people Abercrombie clothing to a Change.org petition for larger sizes by a teenage eating disorder survivor.
The plus-size community particularly took umbrage to the CEO's business model because the retailer currently does not offer clothes above size 10 or large for women.
"I challenge the separation of attractive and fat, and I assert that they are compatible regardless of what you believe," Baker, 26, wrote in a public letter addressed to the CEO.
Jeffries has since apologized in a statement: "While I believe this 7-year-old, resurrected quote has been taken out of context, I sincerely regret that my choice of words was interpreted in a manner that has caused offense."
Baker spoke to CNN about Jeffries' comments and her motivations to address them. The interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.
CNN: You start your letter with a preface that Jeffries' opinion "isn't shocking; millions share the same sentiment." The comments are from 2006 -- what motivated you to act on them?
Jes Baker: It really wasn't upset or outrage at all. I've been an art major for the majority of my academic life, and so I am always trying to find opportunities to do something artistic.
I just thought we don't see the juxtaposition of typical and atypical bodies in advertising specifically. Since I am a woman and I am fat and that's what I have to work with, I wanted to show that contrast by finding a male model.
Really, it just came because I wanted to not be angry about it. I wanted to not say, "This is an outrage, I've never heard of this before," but say, "OK, well, look at this. Look at how awesome this is."
And, I think when you're talking about really serious subjects, and this is kind of serious, it's important to be a little bit cheeky and pull in a little bit of humor so that it's approachable -- and it worked.
Very interesting and very difficult subject. There is a national hysteria about obesity in America. There is no dialog or cure, because the fat acceptance movement represents all institutions that make money with obesity. I think the worst is that obesity forces misery on other people. You will live forever only getting more and more obese every year. Currently the American national obesity statistics is at 75 %. How does obesity work? Yyou can't have healthy relationships under the condition of obesity so is it the drugs that Americans are after I guess? Hmmm.
Huh? What drugs? You have to be more specific.
I don't really know what drugs, but if you are a fatso and you have already stomped all your friends into the ground for your amusement, then what is left for you to enjoy in life?
I'm not getting what point you are trying to make. I think most of the time, people who do drugs are skinny and not fat (illegal drugs anyways), because they don't eat well.
Even better, since you may be the only American that is not obese, disclose your secret. Is it true that obese people are usually from the poorer classes because they can only afford crap food? A 100 years ago, when there was no obesity, they went simply hungry, now they can buy a life by paying obesity for it. Did we just trade national hunger for national obesity? Maybe this is the modern Malthusian development, hehehe.
Okay. I am a 300 pound woman and I want to be your gf. Oops I broke your bone when I sat on it? Never mind, because all the other girls are 300 pounds too. So you don't like me? I win, you can't go anywhere else. Now which of your bones did I break?
Okay. I am a 300 pound woman and I want to be your gf. Oops I broke your bone when I sat on it? Never mind, because all the other girls are 300 pounds too. So you don't like me? I win, you can't go anywhere else. Now which of your bones did I break?
You are a complete shallow moron, congrats!
