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The Beauty Myth

The Beauty Myth is a nonfiction book by Naomi Wolf which argues that as women have become more powerful in society the standards of physical appearance have also grown.

Wolf believes that "beauty" is a societal construct:

"The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of female beauty have come to weigh upon us... during the past decade, women breached the power structure; meanwhile, eating disorders rose exponentially and cosmetic surgery became the fastest-growing specialty... pornography became the main media category, ahead of legitimate films and records combined, and thirty-three thousand American women told researchers that they would rather lose ten to fifteen pounds than achieve any other goal...More women have more money and power and scope and legal recognition than we have ever had before; but in terms of how we feel about ourselves physically, we may actually be worse off than our unliberated grandmothers."

Tuesday, 30 August 2011

Weigh In? WAYHEY!!!


Well it was my weight in tonight - the first since I joined e-source...

I LOST 1 WHOLE POUND WOOOOOHOOOOO :D

I needed a weight loss this week, I needed to know that the blogging and tracking and pain from exercise was worth it. 1 whole pound - happy as larry, couldn't be happier! (scottish people will get that quote)

That brings my total up to 11 pounds off! On this it's only a pound, but I had been going to classes for 3 months before. I got to 11 pounds about 4 weeks ago, but I slipped up, my head didn't listen to my heart, and I put on 3!!! So that's me back to the 11 = 12st 1lb.

This is important - namely because I have a terrible habit of getting down the 12st mark and not shifting, then increasing and ending up on the wrong side of 13st again. Fast forward a year of yo-yo fad diets and there is me walking back through the doors of weight watchers to start all over again!

NOT THIS TIME BUDDY!!!

So this week I have set myself the huge target of a 2 POUND weight loss! That's right, me, who cannot loss more than 1lb on a great week, is aiming high and I've already started!

You see, the class me and my mum attend is at 7pm on a Tuesday evening. And for the first wee while we, like many others in the class, saw a Tuesday night as "cheat night". Tracking began on a Wednesday morning, and you got weighed at 7pm, ergo the time between 7pm Tuesday and 7am Wednesday was FREE........

Not anymore - determined to shift this bulk I have started going to a heavy duty circuit training class (we are talking 50mins of high intensity activity points btw) on a Tuesday night, 9-10PM!! Don't get me wrong I am knackered, but it stops me cheating, it stops me eating and I can say with the up-most confidence I can already feel my body beginning to tone up and tighten in places I never even knew existed!

2lbs off EASY - I'm not even frightened about dinner (at an Italian) on Thursday or the friends birthday night out on Saturday. My head and my heart are finally singing of the same hymm sheet: *spotlight on me*

The Singer: Gabriella Cilmi
The Theme Tune: On a Mission

Altogether now: *SING* "I am a woman, on a mission, WHO-O! Nothing can stop me I'm stronger than ever! I'm gonna see this throooooouuuugggghhh"

       
The Company my Class is with - talk about tough love!
































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