There simply are other things to address or that I want to write about right at the moment. First of all an update on my own health, this week, since last Thursday actually I've been ill with a horrible cold/flu. Forcing myself to work and not rest made it worse and thank goodness I'm over the worst of it now. I still need rest and still feel tired and a bit achy but better than hacking up a lung or not being able to see with sore watery eyes and runny or stuffy nose and not being able to talk to do my job even. Yes, to do my job there is a lot of talking involved. Rest and medicine and well, the love of two very affectionate kitties is the way to wellness for me. I also have been steadily and faithfully taking my iron pills and b12. Thus far less migraines and urges to move!!! I don't feel as exhausted other than with this pesky cold. I think I might start taking walks on days off around the park track nearby. :)
Moving on, I'd like to mention diet. I've seen way too many diet reports on yahoo in particular lately. Actually it's all over the place. There are magazines and reports all over raving about the next diet and craze and how you should eat this or that and how much sodium and fat is in everything. It's making me sick. Sick to read it and sick to think about. I eat what I want. Yes, maybe it's not the best for me and no maybe I'm not losing weight that fast. But really is losing 10 lbs in a week healthy? I don't think so. I read this report too on this one lady who did running and initially I thought great! she's exercising and eating right, but then upon reading further I read that she's counting calories, and reading labels and obsessing over carbs and how much intake there is over just about every ingredient right down to before she even goes out to a restaurant! How is this healthy? That's an eating disorder waiting to happen if it isn't one in of itself! That is a mental obsession! It's one thing to work out and balance diet with exercise. But everything in moderation, portion it out into perhaps smaller helpings and don't eat blindly , by this I mean don't eat and eat for the sake of boredom or the sake of eating. I don't mean read every single label there is and obsess over the contents! Eat until your belly says you're full, don't eat at the computer and/or tv and look at what you're eating.
You can make food exciting if it's bland by adding certain spices and flavors and even the way you cook it helps. Steam cooked veggies for example holds more vitamins than boiled and if you're going to boil them then why not use the water for a broth or something else you're making with it like your gravy? By the way, protein, and I don't mean your legumes like peanuts, I mean meat! Real meat! is not bad for you! If we weren't meant to eat it then it wouldn't be here and we wouldn't have evolved to have the teeth we have and our bodies would not be made to consume it.
Yes you can disagree with me all you like, the vegetarians and vegans, however I'd argue that plants are living things in their own right as well. Not to mention that we kill them every day using pesticides. Not to say that I agree with the way we treat the earth, no in fact I'd say that pesticide use and chemicals and forcing animals to breed etc. in an unnatural way is disgraceful. I'd pose the question, if aliens were to come to earth, well what would they think of us and would they herd us like cattle in the open wild, hunting us for sport and for food or would they do what they were doing on V or even on the Matrix and herd us and breed us like we do now to our animals to use for food or energy source? Or would they think we're disgraceful and not even bother with us as we haven't evolved at all really?
I read further about the difference between slim and "curvy" models. This is an ongoing battle. Why can't we just all agree that all are beautiful? Why is there competition? Makes me look at art more closely of the past versus now. I think of famous nude paintings of heavier women, women who had curves and were considered most beautiful and were sought after. Even the great statues of Venus as I mentioned before were images of fertility and ultimate beauty. Why and when did this change? According to one book I have referred to before, "No Fat Chicks" by Terry Poulton, she indicates this started in the 60's or 70's when Twiggy came about as a famous model. Before that it was ladies like Marilyn Monroe who I wish I had hips like that. Actually I'd say I'm proud of my hips. I just wish I could lift up my breasts a bit and lose a bit of the belly weight. But then some of this does come with age, I am 30 near 31 years old and these things are bound to happen and things aren't as "perky" as they once were. Some of this comes from wearing or not wearing the appropriate clothes such as a bra. I'd have to say there are benefits to wearing them but there are also benefits for not wearing them and finding just the right one, is very difficult. Point being why do women or even men, objectify? Why do we have competition with looks like this and why is it ok to do encourage these, eating and mental disorders? I'd have to say that the entire human race is well, ill. We're all ill and have an eating disorder or mental disorder of some sort, if we accept it or not. Especially in the Western world, though I can't say all of us aren't subject to it, but I find that we obsess over diet and eating and looks. It's everywhere and women are so objectified, treated poorly by some standard, though perhaps in some cases not as horrifically as the East with stoning etc. but we do have our share of crimes such as rape and domestic violence. It's the same wherever you go, it's just in a different manner or perspective.
I'll admit that I'm again, perhaps considered a feminist. I'll speak openly about these things because I don't think it's right. For now that's all I'll say.
That's all I've got for tonight. Other than Zumba!!! Yes! the new game is coming out in either October or November and I'm excited!!! I can't wait for it! There is also one coming out soon for kids too which I would highly recommend the kids getting into that because it encourages dance and music and movement and just a lot of great fun. :)
And that's all folks! Have a happy week and hope all are keeping well and rested and away from being sick with colds and flus as much as possible.
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