So another week another 'celeb' on the cover of a magazine telling us all how they have dropped 2 dress sizes in a month (yeah right) by doing some ridiculous diet. This really gets on my nerves for so many reasons. Just this week Lily Cooper (nee Allen) has lifted a lid on how these 'new amazing' bodies are achieved and I for one wish that many others will follow suit and the people at the source of these stories will either do the right thing and either fess up or shut up. Reading article after article about 'my amazing weight loss' is at the very least damaging to the self esteem and at the worst down right dangerous. I speak as someone who has struggled with being overweight and as a mother. Ok my daughter is still young but already I can see her looking at the way people are perceived and how body image is widely used as a measure of popularity, she is ten. For gods sake at ten I don't think that I ever worried about how body looked, maybe I worried about the fact that everyone in my class had a shell suit apart from me, but i certainly didn't care what my body would look like in one, and clearly neither did anyone who owned one !!! She knows I worry about my weight but as I have taken the time to explain to her, for me to be this size is not good for my health and I hope that by eating a balanced diet and working out I am showing her a healthy way to make adjustments to my size. If she came to me in ten years time and told me she was doing one of these ridiculous diets I would feel that I had failed her. Of course I hear you say, why don't we just not buy the magazines etc. Well thats just not going to happen. We are humans, and with that seems to come a desperate need to know whats going on in other people lives. I know I am probably one of the nosiest people around and I love nothing more than to settle down with magazine to read. I just wish that reality was actual reality these days. Since the big reality T.V boom of the early 00's there has been a constant supply of things to watch and read about other peoples lives. originally this was a dream come true for me. Before the realest things we got were watching crime watch, city hospital and Michael Burke on 999. But now even reality has become boring and to keep the interest going the powers that be have invented the unreality genre. Yes TOWIE, as much as I love you, you are at the top of that list. Everything in unreality world is perfect and that includes bodies. Don't worry if the body isn't perfect yet because in the blink of an eye it can be. We can nip, tuck, plump, fill, shrink, expand, crop, edit, and if all else fails lie our way to perfection. Which is ok if thats what you want but at least be honest about it, don't dupe a nation of women (and men) into believing that eating baby food has helped you shrink for a size 14 to a 10 ( thats if you were ever a 14 in the first place)Look at Fern Britton she had a gastric band fitted and lied about it for what ever reason. Fern says she didn't feel the need to tell the world, fine but don't lie when asked. Its not fair on people who think they are doing the same exercise as you and aren't getting the same or near to the same results. When Fern came 'out' of the surgery closet Most people applauded her, I did too. It is hard for her that she had to tell everyone when she didn't want too but Fern must have realised that it couldn't stay a secret forever. Another thing that annoys me is air-brushing and picture editing, If you have lost weight either quickly or a massive amount there is normally a surplus of skin. Nowhere in the pictures of celebs do we see this, and nowhere in these diets do we read about how to deal with this. So where does it go ? Cutting room floor, surgery floor ?? who knows ? I do know from my changing room experiences that most of the ladies at the gym have some form of baggy skin if they have lost alot of weight. You wouldn't know it when they are dressed but its definitely there.
There are a few people who SEEM to yo yo in size throughout the years, some celebs are serial yoyo'ers but the is one in particular that stands out to me. I don't want to be a bitch about her as i genuinely like her, and enjoy watching her on the T.V but my goodness this woman has made a career out of putting on weight and loosing weight but all the time actually not really looking that different on the telly. Honestly one day i was reading about her 'new amazing body' in a magazine and at the same time looking at her on the T.V and laughing because it was like watching two different people with the same head (not the same chins though)
I know I for one am just going to stick to what I'm doing, trying to eat well and exercising and really I don't think there is any other way to do this weight loss thing without piling the pounds back on after or setting yourself an unrealistic target. It may take longer, It may be hard work but the rewards and benefits are plain to see. Baby food tastes horrid and cabbages make your bum smell anyway.
Thats me all done with nappies and the next one I change will probably be my grandchild !!!!! frightening thought. Back at the gym this week and didn't put any weight on in the week I had off. Which was a shock.Had a bit of gym rage which I will tell you about in the next post as this one has been so long already. Off to see take that tomorrow !!! Major excitement.
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