tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15322620.post113103526885073136..comments2024-01-11T18:39:50.665+00:00Comments on Painting With Shadows: Less Weight, Harsher JudgementsKim Ayreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02656677501116622953noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15322620.post-1131132062264923132005-11-04T19:21:00.000+00:002005-11-04T19:21:00.000+00:00Siddharth - really sorry to hear about the floods....<B>Siddharth </B>- really sorry to hear about the floods. Hope you managed to rescue the important stuff.<BR/><BR/>The weight loss (which is much less important than coping with being flooded) is down to eating healthily and getting rid of processed foods. There's muchmore info available on my other blog, Losing a Hundredweight: <A HREF="http://losingcwt.blogspot.com/" REL="nofollow">http://losingcwt.blogspot.com/</A><BR/><BR/><B>bstrong</B> - what the ads do is create a society that is uncertain and unhappy with itself, and then offer false promises as solutions.<BR/><BR/>For example, 98% of diets fail - within 2 years, 98% of people who go on a diet will be back to their original weight, and most of them will be even heavier. And yet western culture is obsessed about dieting. And these diets are not about eating healthily, they are all about losing weight regardless of health. Not only is it dangerous, it doesn't work.<BR/><BR/>But the diet industry is not blamed, we are. We are constantly sold the concept that if we look right and are thin enough, then our lives will be happy. <BR/><BR/>Hey, it keeps the economy going right?<BR/><BR/>And all the mannequins in the UK are thinKim Ayreshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02656677501116622953noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15322620.post-1131129285952498592005-11-04T18:34:00.000+00:002005-11-04T18:34:00.000+00:00Kim,I find it interesting that when I go with my w...Kim,<BR/>I find it interesting that when I go with my wife to the mall every store has mannequins in their windows, each of them with different body dimensions. Big ladies, little ladies, big breasts, medium breasts, and small breasts. For some reason all the male mannequins are the same size. I think society's pressure of being perfect (meaning thin) is primarily focused towards women. <BR/><BR/>I'm not sure about Scotland, but in the US, mainly on our coasts, looks is everything. Good looks may even get you a job that you aren’t qualified to do, while the unattractive qualified guy gets stuck at McDonalds. Every other commercial saturating our airwaves is about some new cosmetic remedy that will suck the pounds off of you, nip here, tuck there. Again, the focus is on the woman. The only cosmetic commercials you see for men are for hair restoration. <BR/><BR/>The problems going to keep getting worse. We are inundated with messages telling us how ugly we are. All these ads play to a very powerful feeling, HOPE.BStronghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15795381642029132764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15322620.post-1131128977870550542005-11-04T18:29:00.000+00:002005-11-04T18:29:00.000+00:00as my house was badly flooded last week i have don...as my house was badly flooded last week i have done a fair share of carrying things both before and after the floods..<BR/><BR/>so how have u managed 2 lose this much weight other than dieting.gym?hey u dont look fat on ur pic.honestly!Siddharthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04362492046378241845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15322620.post-1131120762278856852005-11-04T16:12:00.000+00:002005-11-04T16:12:00.000+00:00Asher - back in the days when I belonged to a Dark...<B>Asher</B> - back in the days when I belonged to a Dark Ages reenactment society, I made myself a chain mail shirt which weighed abut 20 lbs, but only felt like 7 or 8 whenI was wearing it, so I do know it's to do with the muscles. But part of the point I was making was that because we carry that amount of extra weight around with us, we stop being aware of just how much extra strain we are puttin on our hearts. Suddenly carrying a 20kg bag of coal can give you a bit of a shock when it makes you realise you were carrying more than that around with you all the time.<BR/><BR/><B>bstrong</B> - part of the problem is that society has become fascist when it comes to thinness. There is a demand, not that we should be healthy, but that we should be thin. And yet, to be underweight is more unhealthy for you than to be overweight.<BR/><BR/>Because we are fed a constant stream of "thin is good" in television, films and advertising, culturally we have come to regard it as true, and so think that thinner people look better.<BR/><BR/>Of course, being 50kg overweight was not good for me, and I am addressing that. But the problem I am now facing is the cultural expectation, not just that I should be healthy, but that I should be thin.Kim Ayreshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02656677501116622953noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15322620.post-1131051884774500232005-11-03T21:04:00.000+00:002005-11-03T21:04:00.000+00:00What you just said unfortunately holds a lot of tr...What you just said unfortunately holds a lot of truth. Being over weight isn't such a bad thing, being significantly overweight is an issue only because of health reasons. <BR/>Sometimes when I see a person that is significantly overweight the feeling of pity never enters my mind, usually I think to myself "boy, if he/she lost some weight they would look absolutely amazing" Weird ha?BStronghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15795381642029132764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15322620.post-1131042060357610802005-11-03T18:21:00.000+00:002005-11-03T18:21:00.000+00:00A lot of what tires us when carrying a weight is n...A lot of what tires us when carrying a weight is not the weight itself, but the strain it puts on our muscles.<BR/><BR/>Fat on your body is distributed all over, and therefore doesn't put as much weight on any one muscle group as carrying the same amount of weight would.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18435473760294052609noreply@blogger.com