I had a coworker once count the number of grapes she was eating. I looked over as she was loudly complaining to another girl about how she was running out of “points” today.
As I shifted back towards my desk I hear her say “Oh you’re good with this dieting stuff, I’m out of points today do you think I can eat an extra grape?”
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I’m not even sure which is more ridiculous. The fact that this girl is “dieting” while eating miniature sugar bombs, that she’s agonizing over.. a grape, or that she’s not particularly overweight or inactive (she is pretty outdoors-y).
I’m disgusted with how media continues to tell women they need to have shredded 6 pack abs to be healthy. I’m even more disgusted with ads dictating how “real women have curves” or some other horribly vain and inaccurate portrayl of women.
Whatever happened to healthy?
Real women are healthy. Healthy is not a shape. Health doesn’t care if you’re naturally pear, apple, or hourglass shaped. Healthy doesn’t care if you have a 6 pack. There are tons of people who look phenomenal on the outside with barely functioning insides.
I know the backlash that will come. So for the record I will say I am a competitive powerlifter. I think anything to an extreme can be unhealthy. But hell, I’ll own it.
But I certainly don’t hop on any of social media accounts and instantly start bashing people who don’t regularly go to the gym or competitive bodybuilders.
If you have nothing nice to say then maybe you shouldn’t say anything at all. And maybe, just maybe, you should stop channeling your insecurities through the media to try to bend society to feel a little better about yourself.
Don’t like your weight? Diet and exercise. Quit telling me I’m not a real woman because you don’t feel like one.
