So i have an intense love of all things coconut. I have coconut soap, coconut body butter and coconut room spray. I eat coconut sorbet and drink coconut milkshake, i basically have a coconut obsession. When I heard that Lush(my new favorate bath store) makes coconut deoterant i was stunned. Coconut deotarant! Who knew?
One more item to take my love of coconut to the next level.
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Getting to the gym
About two months ago I joined Bally Total Fittness, which has definatly changed my perception on dieting and weightloss.
I recently read the book The Obesity Myth (or The Diet Myth in softcover), which basically says that the fear that all americans are overweight is actually a manufactured socal problem. There is a lot more to this book which goes behind the science and politics of Obesity as a social problem, and I highly recomend it, however one of the most interesting things about the book was that it said that we like to use dieting as a way of control.
I started the summer with a goal to lose weight, and I have used the gym to accomplish that goal, but the minute I set foot in the gym on onto the gym's website I was bombarded with advertisements that told me the same thing : I am fat and thus unhappy, the only way I can be happy is if become skinny and the gym is the way to do this. Sure working out and dieting is a great way to lose weight, it is actually the best and only plan, however is guilt the best way to get people to the gym.
In the begining I fealt like Ballys was my abusive boyfriend. It told me I was fat, that I needed to lose weight and that only they could help me. It gave me recepies and told me what to eat when to eat and how much. Told me when to work out and that the only way for me to be beautiful was if I worked out.
I beleive in working out and healthy living, however I think that guilt triping people that they will be miserable if they do not work out is not the way to go. Nonetheless I kept goign to the gym, and have lost a rediculous amount of weight this summer. Is scarring peopel to the gym the best way to get them there?
I recently read the book The Obesity Myth (or The Diet Myth in softcover), which basically says that the fear that all americans are overweight is actually a manufactured socal problem. There is a lot more to this book which goes behind the science and politics of Obesity as a social problem, and I highly recomend it, however one of the most interesting things about the book was that it said that we like to use dieting as a way of control.
I started the summer with a goal to lose weight, and I have used the gym to accomplish that goal, but the minute I set foot in the gym on onto the gym's website I was bombarded with advertisements that told me the same thing : I am fat and thus unhappy, the only way I can be happy is if become skinny and the gym is the way to do this. Sure working out and dieting is a great way to lose weight, it is actually the best and only plan, however is guilt the best way to get people to the gym.
In the begining I fealt like Ballys was my abusive boyfriend. It told me I was fat, that I needed to lose weight and that only they could help me. It gave me recepies and told me what to eat when to eat and how much. Told me when to work out and that the only way for me to be beautiful was if I worked out.
I beleive in working out and healthy living, however I think that guilt triping people that they will be miserable if they do not work out is not the way to go. Nonetheless I kept goign to the gym, and have lost a rediculous amount of weight this summer. Is scarring peopel to the gym the best way to get them there?
Fitting into a Dress: Part 1
The moment I looked at the dress on the hanger I knew something had gone wrong.
For my brother's wedding, his fiance picked out what she believed were the perfect bridesmaid dresses. They were the color of wine and would fit to show off all of the bridesmaid's curves. Unfortunately the company who had made the dress had stopped making that model so all of her many bridesmaids had to rush to the store and order one before they were sold out. This was one year ago.
Unable to get to a store sent my sister to go buy the dress. She was roughly my size and height and was able to drive to a store(I didn't have my car at the time). She picked out the dress and bought it in a size 8, thinking that in one year we would be perfectly set to wear it. Unfortunately for both of us something had gone amiss. The dress store had not sent us a size 8 but actually two size sizes, which meant that it was really a size four. To my misfortune I had also gained about 20 lbs in the last year, and the dress, which was already small when I was skinny, is now way to small.
This is where the adventure starts: in the course of three months I have been on a journey to go to a size 4 from a size 10. Impossible, maybe, but I call it an adventure.
For my brother's wedding, his fiance picked out what she believed were the perfect bridesmaid dresses. They were the color of wine and would fit to show off all of the bridesmaid's curves. Unfortunately the company who had made the dress had stopped making that model so all of her many bridesmaids had to rush to the store and order one before they were sold out. This was one year ago.
Unable to get to a store sent my sister to go buy the dress. She was roughly my size and height and was able to drive to a store(I didn't have my car at the time). She picked out the dress and bought it in a size 8, thinking that in one year we would be perfectly set to wear it. Unfortunately for both of us something had gone amiss. The dress store had not sent us a size 8 but actually two size sizes, which meant that it was really a size four. To my misfortune I had also gained about 20 lbs in the last year, and the dress, which was already small when I was skinny, is now way to small.
This is where the adventure starts: in the course of three months I have been on a journey to go to a size 4 from a size 10. Impossible, maybe, but I call it an adventure.
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