<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ad3071bf-d33f-4650-9a96-5d9f3e454972/9C66C29E-00F1-46C6-8507-6E4329C8D10F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.bfdblog.com/?p=136" href="http://www.bfdblog.com/?p=136" style="font-size: 11px;">www.bfdblog.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bfdblog.com/?p=136">1. Be yourself. Whatever size, color, religion, gender, race, or sexual orientation.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bfdblog.com/?p=136">2. Understand that you’re beautiful. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bfdblog.com/?p=136">3. Let go of fear. 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Read blogs, leave comments, join <A href="http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=DqJD0h4Q3BGXtbFPJhOy0Q">the community</A>.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bfdblog.com/?p=136">6. Bring body positivity and size acceptance issues into <I>your</I> communities.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bfdblog.com/?p=136">7. Link to your favorite body positivity blogs</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bfdblog.com/?p=136"><P>8. Brainstorm different ways to be an advocate. The <A href="http://www.onthewhole.info/2007/06/the-dressing-ro.html">dressing room project</A>? <A href="http://red3.blogspot.com/2007/06/fat-hate-bingo.html">Fat hate bingo</A>? The <A href="http://fatrantblog.wordpress.com/2007/06/19/hello-world/">fat rant</A>? 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