Just a little rant, too ranty for facebook!
There's this photo being circulated with a curvaceous Marilyn Monroe contrasted with an extremely skinny woman in a bikini. People are saying - Oh, she should eat some cheeseburgers, stuff like that.
I've never been more than about 15 lbs more than I weigh now, I come from a skinny family, people who don't have trouble losing the "baby weight" because they get skinnier after the babies, who lose weight under stress or if they're sick.
That's OK by me, I don't mind my body, I'm comfy in it, and at my age extra pounds don't go places where they make attractive curves. But I feel uncomfortable and centred out when people comment about my size or my food choices. I hate fast food, I don't like cake or cookies much, or muffins, or quick-breads, not a huge ice cream fan, prefer my food baked or braised, not breaded and deep-fried, like very few candies and am satisfied with one or two pieces of the chocolate and caramel that I do love, abhor pop, love fruit and veggies.
My high calorie choices are beer, wine, cheeses, smoked salmon and other fishies, other such yummy savouries, so yes, there are fattening foods I like!
The other day, at the Home Show in Windsor, as I went in with my lovely daughter and grand-daughter, the very nice ladies selling tickets quite sweetly centred me out - "how do you do it?" "what do you do?" Nice, but certainly uncomfortable-making. I wouldn't dream of commenting on their shapes to their faces! They had fine shapes, BTW.
We live in the bodies we have - we try to keep them as healthy as possible, they are our outward seeming, our way of contacting the world. We should enjoy them and the life we live in them. And we should get off other people's case!
I've never been more than about 15 lbs more than I weigh now, I come from a skinny family, people who don't have trouble losing the "baby weight" because they get skinnier after the babies, who lose weight under stress or if they're sick.
That's OK by me, I don't mind my body, I'm comfy in it, and at my age extra pounds don't go places where they make attractive curves. But I feel uncomfortable and centred out when people comment about my size or my food choices. I hate fast food, I don't like cake or cookies much, or muffins, or quick-breads, not a huge ice cream fan, prefer my food baked or braised, not breaded and deep-fried, like very few candies and am satisfied with one or two pieces of the chocolate and caramel that I do love, abhor pop, love fruit and veggies.
My high calorie choices are beer, wine, cheeses, smoked salmon and other fishies, other such yummy savouries, so yes, there are fattening foods I like!
The other day, at the Home Show in Windsor, as I went in with my lovely daughter and grand-daughter, the very nice ladies selling tickets quite sweetly centred me out - "how do you do it?" "what do you do?" Nice, but certainly uncomfortable-making. I wouldn't dream of commenting on their shapes to their faces! They had fine shapes, BTW.
We live in the bodies we have - we try to keep them as healthy as possible, they are our outward seeming, our way of contacting the world. We should enjoy them and the life we live in them. And we should get off other people's case!