Resolution Desolation

Evidently, the most popular New Year's resolution is to lose weight. Come on ! What could be more stupid. I can see "eating better" or "watching my foods" but losing weight on some fad diet for the sake of wearing a size whatever is brainless. Sorry fashionistas, but it's true, and you know it. First, I'd ask why are you doing this to yourself? You know perfectly well that most of you except those sadly ill with anorexia, will fail and then your body will say "hey I'm not going to do that again, therefore, I'm going to put on more pounds this time, just to make sure". I am not saying you should allow yourself to be obese, I'm merely suggesting that eating healthy foods may not make you the ninety pound wonder, but it will keep that healthy glow everyone sees and likes. If you are dieting to look like someone else you admire, it's your body you have to consider not that one on the glossy magazine page. Perhaps you feel that if you don't run around with a 20 inch waist and 30 inch hips, you'll lose your lover. Ask yourself is that all your lover wants? A skinny body? Time to run to the nearest exit in that case. You matter. You. Not a two dimensional image on the screen or off. Ah yes, there are dear folks out there who happen to be larger than others. If that's the body you've been handed, go for it. Take it along with you but treat it right. You know what's good for you and what's not and fad dieting or bingeing is not. Fad diets are like all the fads. Add an "e" and what do you get? Right! Fade. Fad diets fade and they fade because they don't work. I've been around the block a bit and I know women who did the drop into "our studio" thing with the counselling and shots, got on the groupie soup diets and the protein only diets but none, not one of those people kept the pounds off. Not one. For one thing, most of the dieters I know are not obese. They simply get a bug in their bonnets that they are "fat" which means to them that they need to become a size one instead of the one they are. Obese people need other kinds of help that are not diets but complex changes about complex issues. The tiny, skinny women I know, don't like their shapes either. They want to gain weight here or there and believe me, that is harder than losing it. Women with new babies worry constantly about the baby's weight not being enough. They brag when the infant gains. Then they worry about their little children gaining too much weight. There must be a middle road. What we put into our bodies shows. We all know what to do about it. No one needs to tell us what to eat. Off to the new year making healthy good sense and choosing better foods!