This is Meagan Kerr

Ins and outs for 2024

A selfie of Meagan with a foxglove flower she grew.

Last year I shared my “ins and outs” for 2023 and as someone who loves a list, I found it handy to sum up a whole bunch of things I wanted more of or less of in my life. It made it much easier for me to prioritise things that aligned with those goals (for lack of a better word) and I found myself coming back to look at that list throughout the year.

Prioritising my wellbeing was at the top of my 2023  “in” list which is admittedly very broad, but encompassed a few things that I was working on, like getting more sleep (did not happen), reducing stress (literally made myself sick on more than one occasion from stress) View Post

And just like that, I ran out of words

A mirror selfie of Meagan in the Lost and Led Astray store. She is wearing a leaf green dress and black compression leggings.

Tried on a green dress and then bought it in black. Classic Meg.

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve opened up my laptop, signed in to this website and hit the “new post” button. I’m full of thoughts, feelings and opinions. There’s so much I want to say about what’s going on in our world, in my life, in fashion. I want to write so badly. But as the publishing history on my website will indicate, the words are stuck. I feel like I have so many things to say but when I try to get them out of my head and on to a (digital) page, I just can’t make sense of them. And so I stopped trying. I stopped writing. View Post

Going to the gym

A fat Māori woman with lipoedema is sitting on a leg curl and extension machine in an empty gym. She is taking a selfie in a mirror.

Exercising in a gym means I’m less likely to put off my workout if it’s cold or raining.

Gyms can be intimidating places – especially if you’re a fat person. I’m sure we’ve all seen the fatphobic advertising that some gyms use, know of people taking photos of other gym goers to make fun of them, or heard about trainers who shout at you until you cry, throw up or both. All of these things are vile, so it’s not surprising that a lot of people are really hesitant to go to the gym!

Despite all of these things I’ve found some really awesome gyms over the years, it’s just been a matter of finding the right one. Recently I’ve had a few people asking how to get started, so I thought I’d write a longform post for the gym-curious. View Post

Setting body boundaries

Even though it’s 2022 and by now we should all know better, some people insist on making comments about other people’s bodies. How big or small they are, how they’ve changed, unsolicited opinions … yuck. Can we just not? Over the years I’ve gotten better at setting boundaries around how other people talk about my body, and how they talk about bodies around me. Part of this has come around from being a parent, and part of it because I got to a point where I realised that I don’t have to tolerate other people disrespecting my body.

We are heading in to the holidays and some of us will be seeing family members who like to make comments about our bodies. We are also heading in summer in Aotearoa New Zealand, and on top of that a new year. Basically it’s prime time for diet chat, unsolicited comments and general body bullshit. View Post

Lipoedema

From my teenage years well into my 30’s, I thought my arms and legs looked the way they do solely because I was fat. Even though most other fat people that I know don’t have arms and legs that look like mine. But I have family members whose bodies look like mine – I guess I thought it was a genetic thing. Just how our whānau looks, you know? View Post

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