So my
holiday naughtiness resulted in a weight gain of 3 ½ pounds last night. I’m not
too down hearted about it, even if our Lucy did only put on half a pound all
the time we were away! It’s not an insurmountable amount of weight to re-lose
and I am focused on what I’m doing, so I’m sure next week I’ll be woo-hooing as
I get off the scales.
To keep me out of trouble (for trouble read
fridge) I bought a couple of magazines on my way home and I reached the
conclusion that actually you just can’t win! Over the years I’ve had a whole
myriad of abuse, such things as “my
boyfriend thinks you’ve got a big bum”, to which I replied “well he clearly
doesn’t think at all if he’s dating you”
(high five on the comeback) And my favourite,
“you made sandwiches for *****” the last bit of abuse was slightly more
involved and from a woman who I lovingly called Vile Scabby Fanny (or VSF when
I was e-mailing friends with various tales of her craziness) The long and short
of it is, everyday she made sandwiches for this person, sometimes lovingly placing
them in front of him with an accompanying packet of crisps and other times throwing
them at him without a word. It became quite a past time to see what it would
be! This one day she walked in with nothing and stormed past, when questioned
about the lack of sandwiches, she merely replied that she’d heard “that slag
Katie has made you sandwiches” I wouldn’t mind, but I’d never even made him a
brew let alone a round of sandwiches.
My point is that the magazine (edited by a
woman I might add) was full of abuse and it just made me think that celebrities
must pick these up and just want to cry – they get a huge amount of
ridiculing, even if it isn’t sandwich related.
The articles were things such as: some girl
from “Geordie Shore” was moaning about how much weight she puts on during the
show – well they do drink their body weight in Jagerbombs (300 calories a time
if you’re interested) so it’s going to take its toll!
Chloe
Madely was criticised for tweeting a picture of her amazingly flat stomach,
apparently she’s promoting a bad body image because she’s TOO SKINNY! I think she looks great and have tummy envy!
Posh
Spice had been spotted out in the same outfit twice – yes you read it correctly
twice! How very dare she go out in a pair of jeans and a black vest top on more
than one occasion. I love Victoria Beckham, I think she looks great, plus she’s
a working mum of 4, maybe some days she just needs to get dressed and get out
the house quickly before one of her kids puts sticky fingers on her.
There was a whole section on Jennifer Lopez
and her “Britain’s Got Talent” outfit, I must admit I did think she was
channelling her inner Cher circa “The Turn Back Time” video, but hey if I had
that body, I’d go to the supermarket in that leotard thingy (do you call it a
leotard or is their a more fashionable name?)
Then my favourite type of article “how insert name of reality TV star here lost
3 pounds on a heartbreak diet”
The bashing wasn’t just reserved for the
women in fairness, they did a piece on how former heartthrobs had got less hot
– Mr Big now has a belly and a beard, John Corbett (SATC Aiden) now looks like
D’artagnan and Matthew Perry now looks older than he did in “Friends” (well it
did finish 9 years ago and I’m sure we all look older than we did then!)
By the end of the magazine, I felt a bit fed
up, it would appear that it doesn’t matter what you do, someone always wants to
criticise? Why? I’m not sure I even know the answer, or indeed if there is one.
So this is what I’ve decided to do, I’m starting a grateful journal and
everyday I’m going to write down 5 things that have been good, even if it’s
just something as simple as I saw a robin in the garden.
I'll leave you with this song, it has some great lyrics, that Baz Lurhman chap knows exactly what he's doing!
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