Comments on: The Only Diet I Recommend

By: V Magazine And Your Stand For Yourself | Body Love Wellness

V Magazine And Your Stand For Yourself | Body Love Wellness — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:56:30 +0000

[...] featuring plus sized models, I was non-plussed (lame pun intended). For my own sanity, I tend to avoid fashion magazines. And for whatever reason, I thought that plus sized models were sometimes in fashion magazines [...]

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By: Golda

Golda — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:15:00 +0000

Hey Ivan, thanks for your thoughtful response as always! And I love the youtube clip! Awesome!

Gina — I actually changed the wording b/c that change wasn't it my original post (my posts get edited a bit at More Of Me To Love). You're right, not everyone who's underweight is starving himself/herself, but a lot of actors admit to having to do so.

By: Caroline

Caroline — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:00:06 +0000

I get so tired of diet miracle this and diet miracle that…blah, blah, blah! I have found such an enjoyable way of life through eating foods that are actually healthy! Our son's allergies and Eczema helped us change the way we eat and it is awesome! I have really eliminated processed foods as much as possible, we do not eat high fructose corn syrup and we take Vidazorb probiotics. (I've read about how they can help with so many things including weight). But I think it is important for people to remember that eating healthy really has so many more benefits than a diet which can sometimes only give temporary success. Thanks! smilinggreenmom *tweet me!

By: Gina

Gina — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:57:40 +0000

Hmm, I don't view any of the things you recommend cutting out (except once in a blue moon a little daytime TV of the kind that contains horrifying diet ads). But I hate my body anyway. Maybe it's the skinny cartoon people.

Also, I am told that some people are naturally underweight just as some are naturally very fat, so your statement that women on TV are practically starving themselves to death, while I have no doubt it applies to many, is a generalization.

By: Ivan

Ivan — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:14:52 +0000

This link was posted on the Naffa Yahoo Group.to a musical performance that made me smile. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZPx5WlJYXc

By: Ivan

Ivan — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:01:07 +0000

Golda,

Fantastic advice. Been clocking a lot of hours around the HAES/FA blogs the last few days and seeing a lot of examples of distortion in the way the media reports about scientific studies which have a bias against the overweight population in our culture. Of course this bias is prevalent in the mainstream media, especially fashion media.

What I have come to see is the magnitude of this bias in our culture, especially through the media which until very recently did not include the internet. I think that there are many well meaning people out there making the engines of the fashion, beauty & media industries run. I choose to think that they are unaware of the harmful aspects of what they do. I would hope that if there is a person whose motive is to harm us in this way, that we would first try to educate them. If they do not acknowledge the harm they do and make an effort to mitigate it, we can show the executives of the fashion, beauty, medical, and media industries how the moral compasses of these individuals guide our dollars away from the companies they are running.

I like your idea about looking at positive images. I am so happy there is so much out there, including you, that are reminding us to love ourselves.

As I write this, there is a fat parody of a GAP commercial playing on the "E" network. Ironically this piece of mainstream media is the exact image I need to watch to inspire me to move is a way I love, dancing. It shows very fit and healthy fat people dancing (a real BBW doing a split) which actually made me want to dance.

I wonder if the universe sent me this mainstream media image making fun of fat people to inspire me to dance?

I think a break from the media is a great way to decompress and work on important self discovery stuff. I saved the dance routine on my TIVO. Those weren't actors pretending to dance, those were healthy, heavy, fit dancers in a comedy skit.

Getting very excited about the HAES, NAAFA, & ASDAF convention!

Cheers,

Ivan

By: Golda

Golda — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:43:18 +0000

Thanks, Jen. I fixed it (hopefully)!

And great suggestion, Bookwyrm.

By: Bookwyrm

Bookwyrm — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:06:16 +0000

Can I still drink diet cola when I go out, or will that jeopardize the diet? I really can't stand the flavour of the corn-syrup-sweetened kind.

Also, you might want to advise limiting consumption of fashion dolls and action figures.

By: Jen in CT

Jen in CT — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:16:34 +0000

just FYI, the link for the youtube video has an extra forward slash at the end so you can't click right over. The correct url is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2gD80jv5ZQ

Great video, btw. Thanks for posting it!