Celebrities love to tout diet tips to an adoring public. They're eager to give the world nutrition tips on how they stay skinny and "cleansed" and feeling free. Demi was doing the maple syrup/lemon juice/cayenne pepper thingy for awhile. I worked with a girl who did that. Yuck. She was miserable. We watched what she did, and we smelled what she drank, and that was enough for us. Demi tweets it to millions of people (without the benefit of the smelly part, thank goodness) and who know how much damage she caused.
Gwyneth Paltrow is a super cleansing fanatic-after a time spent being on a macrobiotic diet. She now suffers from osteopenia, which is the precursor to osteoporosis.
I love being in my fifth decade. I love having life experience. It's not that I get to sit in some magnificent comfy throne and throw out advice (tho a comfy throne sounds magnificent). It's that it affords perspective. I've been really really large and I've been really really thin. I think I've hit a nice medium right now. I think the culture is maybe coming around a bit.
I think "real" women are taking back their bodies and saying to men, "These are our terms; we are women, we have curves, deal with them or date each other." They have to deal with our womanly curves. That's it. DEAL! I'm not drinking maple syrup and cayenne pepper for anyone. I'm not eating a 9-grain cracker and calling that dinner for any soul on this planet. WOMEN = CURVES. Deal!!!
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Some men prefer waifish women like Kylie Minogue, others like a big fat butt they can sink their teeth into. Tastes will always vary.
The population is aging. It is unrealistic for women to continue to believe that they are always going to be thin. Perhaps my message is to women as much as men. When we begin to exude confidence in our own curves, then hopefully that confidence will attract men who are also confident.
And G.B., you have a way with words....
i agree debbie. but i also think that the main reason women mess with themselves is not to impress men, but to impress other women. keeping up with the joneses so to speak. no sure why we do that to ourselves and eachother.
i agree with that, ab.
Yeppers. We need to change advertising and the way that we are perceived and perceive each other. That would go a long way, perhaps.
I confess.
I love the Master Cleanse. Thats the lemon, maple syrup drink. I skip the pepper part.
I do it twice a year for 3 weeks.
~vk~
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