Delta Delta Delta sorority chapters around the country are sponsoring Fat Talk Free Week.

The Lambda chapter will host various events on campus this week to raise awareness of body image issues.

TWITTER CHALLENGES

Tuesday: tweet about a time you felt insecure

Wednesday: Tweet a healthy fact

Thursday: Tweet something you’re thankful for about your body

Friday: Tweet someone else a compliment

To start off the week, the chapter challenged women to participate in makeup-free Monday.

“I am already pretty surprised at how many people actually participated in the makeup free Monday, because when I first told everybody we were doing that, I had a lot of people tell me that there was no way they would do that,” senior Caitlyn Metseff said.

The chapter is using Twitter to spark interest by challenging the way students view themselves. Each day, the chapter will use its Twitter account to suggest a different message for students to tweet.<br/>

The chapter will host an event called “Trash Fat Talk” at lunch on Thursday in the Harter Union.

Students will be provided with paper and magazines and have the option of throwing away a photo or content that contains negative messages.

On Friday, students who stop by the Harter Union at lunch will have a chance to write down positive statements about themselves, which will then be placed around campus.

Chapter president Sierra Wallace said she has already noticed students telling others to watch their comments that are “fat talk.”

“I think I’m looking forward to just having a bigger week then we have ever done before,” Wallace said

Junior MacKenzie Pfeiffer, who is serving as the Fat Talk Free Week coordinator, used suggestions from Delta Delta Delta’s national organization to help generate ideas for the events on Baker’s campus.

“It sends out (the message) you are not expected to be perfect–magazine perfect–you are fine just the way you are,” Pfeiffer said.

Pfeiffer hopes this week will show her sorority sisters as well as other students that they are not alone if they struggle with body image issues.

“(We want to) make people realize that the things that are out there that promote the thin, ideal, perfect beauty are not realistic,” Pfeiffer said.