Okay so this is a late post, but I just wanted to say BAH to everything I had thought about my body before going to the burn. I drove out, it took us two weeks, and in that time I gained weight. A box of cheese-itz a day will do that to you ;o) Enough so that some of my clothes were uncomfortable, honestly. And guess what? Took me all of ZERO seconds of getting to camp and setting up to say Screw that, my belly jiggles a little more and I had to losen my knee high boots a smidge, now hand me my bikini cause its HOT and so am I!!! I am so happy that I got there and didn't let body image bother me. AND everyone was right, the crazy notion that everyone running around at BM is a super model is absolutely wrong. In fact, I don't think I saw ANYONE who was perfect, just a butt load of normal people of all shapes and sizes having a fan fucking tastic time. I think the only time body even came into play was the night of the burn when I was too drunk to get my shit together and so everything was upsetting me, especially my costumes all being uncomfortable. Calling it an early night after Crude Awakening and getting some much needed sleep (we arrived the saturday before, so it'd been a loooooong time on the playa by burn night) helped me get my butt back into costumes of near nothingness.

I love the playa. Now if only I could maintain that level of body approval in Reality Camp.