Introducing the Bloggers.

In order to better understand the things I'll be posting over the next few days I thought it would be helpful to provide a short bit of information on the blogs that I've been following. When possible I've tried to include the "About Me" section from the blogger's own profile.

Weight-loss and maintenance:

The Anti-Jared
Age: 34
Occupation: Restaurant Manager
About Me: After losing over 200 pounds, gaining a lot of muscle, having a baby (Well, wife had baby), changing jobs, inspiring people and eating right I have one thing to say. What's next?

Jack Sh*t, Gettin' Fit
About Me; Come and listen to a story 'bout a man named Jack, Who never quit eating 'cept to stop and have a snack. Then one day he was standing on his scale, And he realized he'd really let his body go to hell. (Obesity that is, black fat, Texas toast) Well the first the you know old Jack made a vow, He'd ratchet up the exercise and show down on the chow. He wanted to get his weight back to where it oughta be, So he loading up his stuff and he move to Bloggery. (Google Blogger that is, writing posts, makin' jokes) Well now it's time to say hello to Jack and all his sh*t As he chronicles his adventures on his journey to get fit. You're all invited back each day to the locality, To have a heaping helping of health and hilarity. (Jack Sh*t, Gettin' Fit, that is.) Y'all come back now, ya hear?

Prior Fat Girl
About Me: Growing up, I was always overweight. I have always been on diets. In fact, I can remember my mom buying me those Richard Simmons dancing movies to help workout. For the most part, in high school, I was only moderately overweight. After I moved out and on my own, I realized I could eat anything I wanted and no one would stop me. So I did. Within a few short year, I had eaten myself to my all time highest weight of 240lbs. I was morbidly overweight and although I smiled often often on the outside, I was miserable.

For the year prior to my healthiness re-birth, I knew something had to change. I remember calling a good friend every couple of weeks saying "I just have to do something, I can't be like this for the rest of my life."

Escape from Obesity
About Me: I am 38 years old, female, a degree-holding stay-at-home mom, and I weigh 278 pounds. I have been obese for ten years now. Time to get out this fat prison I have made for myself.

*Bitch Cakes* A Neurotic Glamour Girl's Weight Watchers Experience and Fitness Adventures
Bitch Cakes is 39 years old. She had been on and off the Weight Watchers program since 1989, and she has been consistently attending meetings since September 2006. She decided to join Weight Watchers because she realized she had wasted way too much of her life being fat and unhappy. She typically blogs about Weight Watchers and her exercise routines.
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Fat Acceptance:

Living ~400 Lbs
Height: 5 feet 8 inches
Bust: 58"
Waist: 57"
Hips: 67'
BMI: 60

Fat Heffalump
Unfortunately Heffalump doesn't have an "About Me" section. Fat Heffalump's post usually only deal with the issues that fat people face and the Fat Acceptance movement.

The Rotund
Hi! I'm Marianne Kirby! I'm fat!

How are you?

I'm on a mission here to let you know that fat people are not your enemy. And skinny people aren't your enemy either.

Here, the body is a political one no matter its size or shape. We are going to unpack society's standards of beauty, the oppression of the dominant social paradigm when it comes to body conformity, and talk about clothes. Maybe even makeup. Because I do love makeup.

Here, I hope, we will come to a place of acceptance. Acceptance for our own bodies and for the bodies of others.

I AM in shape. ROUND is a shape
April D blogs at I AM in shape. ROUND is a shape. She mostly blogs about things she finds interesting in the media related to fat acceptance and oddly enough...belly dancing.

The Pervocracy
This blog definitely shouldn't be read by anyone that's easily offended. She blogs about her sexual encounters, feminism, and fat acceptance.
[sidenote: I didn't discover this blog until about two weeks ago. I wish I'd had more time to read all her posts!]
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Pro-Ana:
The Looking Glass
About Me: I'm sort of your average teenager, except I have a few goals and I know waht I want to do with my life. I love music, and I'm kind of nerd about it. I can name almost any recent rock song from hearing a few bars. I'm slightly claustrophobic. I love to be social but large crowds make me angsty. I can talk in a flawless English/British accent. I'm a bit of a masochist. I love it when guys cry. Not because I'm sadistic but because it's so sweet and I want to make them feel better. I wish I could save the world. I support Gay rights completely, but I'm straight. I often enjoy teenage boy humor. Sometimes I even start "that's what she said" competitions. I'm obsessed with perfection. Except for scars. I think they're beautiful. I appear very uncaring and tough on the outside, and I act like it too. On the inside I promise I try to be a good person.
Statistics:
Start Height: 5'1"
Start Weight: 117 lbs
Current Height: 5'3"
Current Weight: 99
Goal Weight: 95

CHOKE ON AIR
Kemper doesn't have an About Me section, but she does provide some statistics.
Age; 20
Height: 5'10"
Start weight (8/09): 147 lbs
Current weight: 117 lbs
BMI: 16.8
Goal weight: 112 lbs
Goal BMI: 16.1
Goal measurements: 34-24-35 or US size 0

Yummy Secrets - A Proana Blog
About Me: Like many of us, I have romantic ideals. I want to be the Poetic Waif, the starving artist, a princess, a fairy, something ethereal. I want to be Shakespeare's Ophelia, the Labyrinth's Sarah Williams, Goethe's Gretchen, a nostalgic, tragic figure, living in a world of air and dreams.

Instead, I have always felt the opposite. I am logical, earthy, contained, responsible, boring.

I am choosing to live in a dream world, because I cannot live in the real one.

I'm slipping slowly away.
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Knowing a little bit about each of the bloggers that I've been following has allowed me to better 'connect' with each of them.