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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."

Wednesday, 11 January 2012

Post Christmas Weigh In!

So went to my 1st weight watcher meeting since the week BEFORE Christmas. The way my working week worked pre-holiday festivities and then a fallen tree last week meant it has been 4 WEEKS since my last weigh in. Over that 4 week period there has been Christmas, New Year, several nights out (which is enevitable followed by several hangovers...carb city!), there was lunch with old friends, dinner for birthday's, leftovers, snacks and a general over abundance of all types of food everywhere I looked!

The result......STAYED THE SAME!!!! RESULT!

In fact I am sure that scale was wavering more towards a 1/2lb loss...but alas!

I am so super thrilled at the result. There were a lot of new members at the class this week and our leader asked us veterans how we had got on. I was honest, I told her that I indulged, that I thoroughly enjoyed my festive season as all of us did (fat, thin alike) I said but something somewhere must have gotten stuck in the furthest regions of my brain, because I was obviously doing something right :)

Hints and Tips for the newbies - get organised, make lists and have fun! Works for me!!

So off I go with my 10 out of 10 motivation! Looking at my sad wee graph (picture provided) I've pretty much plateaued for the last few months (that giant blip in the middle was my holiday!!) so it's time to track track track, weigh weigh weigh, move move move and lose lose lose!
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