M's 1st Post: "A fat stomach sticks out too far. It prevents you from looking down and seeing what is going on around you."

My basement seems to be the place where brilliant ideas brew, percolate and are consumed.

It started off as a friend of mine talking about how amazing of a cook his aunt was. I felt "offended" by the stereotypical undertone of his story and I replied with that everything I had learned in a Women's Studies class I took in high school was going downt the drain. Suddenly, we were on the topic of being fat.

TA-DA! Our blog was born!

Now, we understand that body image is a touchy subject. (Believe you me, we know it good and well.) A lot of you may be offended by what we talk about, the way we feel about the world's view on...fluffy folks like ourselves. Some, as we hope, will see that they aren't alone in this battle to make "Big" the norm in a society obsessed with being a size 4 and starving themselves to fit into a pair of designer jeans.

So please enjoy our future rants about shopping malls, horrific incidents in gym class, fried food dunked in ranch dressing and being all-around fat in a world of skinny people.

If I had this, I could die happy.