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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, 21 February 2012

Karma = Food Poisioning from a Takeaway!

Warning: Readers with a weak constitution (i.e. who feel sick reading about other people's fluids) please DO NOT continue to read!









 

It has been some week! Tuesday my brother phones to tell me he got a job as a camp instructor and will be away from April until Sep this year. Wednesday I get the call to say I got my wee flat. Friday my brother passed his theory test. Also my Mum has stopped smoking.

Naturally the Conway family decided to indulge a little on Friday night, wee glass of champagne and a chinese. I LOVE satays, ever since I had one in Thailand, but decided to try and stay reasonable low and go for a mushroom satay rather than meats, and boiled rice.

Saturday...had strange sharp pain in stomach...well more in between my ribs. You know that part of your ribs cage were your ribs are just starting to separate? Just there. Saturday wore on, felt sicker and sicker, was really sore all over, mega tired, no appetite, could smell funny things....something was wrong.

My little **** (and yeah it is little, pretty much non-existent, never has got bigger, even when the rest of me did!) hit the toilet seat Saturday tea time and pretty much stayed there till Monday lunch! I have never been so ill and $hitty feeling in my entire life! I was so drained and weak and it was the most awful experience of my life to date.

Wanna hear my food diary for the weekend:

2 slices of toast
1 banana
6 plain digestives

for 3 days.....

However, good news is I was back to work today (although not 100%) and the storm seems to have passed. Looking forward to NEVER eating mushrooms again!

so no tracking, no exercising, frankly not really caring.... weigh in tomorrow lol, could probably go either way given the natural balances that your body makes up - I'll prob cling to every calorie today and tomorrow!

Either way I am literally glad I am alive...that is all!

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