Comment: Hungry All the Time

I’m reading “101 Things to Do Before You Diet” (hyuk) and it’s pretty good. The author, Mimi Spencer, is a fashion writer and knows a lot of tricks on how to look thinner than you really are.

But that’s not the best part. What rocks is, she’s hilarious. She’s a very cheeky Brit who comes across just as human and foible-filled (mmm, foibles) as the rest of us. Her tone is perky and slightly quirky and it works. She is us.

It makes me feel better to see that I am not alone in my obsession with (a) food and/or (b) my specific weight. We women all walk around thinking we’re ugly and fat when we’re not. It’s truly a disease of the mind. We’ve been taught to find fat of any kind offensive, even though evolutionarily-speaking (mmm, evolution) skinny gals would go down first.

Junk in the trunk, or the glove compartment, or the passenger side, is pretty damn normal.

So this book just reminds you that you should think before you eat, not eat everything in sight, and be nice to yourself.

So far. I’m only in the first dozen tips. I have many miles to go on this one.

But it strikes me as sad that I and so many others are so obsessed with how we look, when the look that is allegedly normal by Hollywood standards, is actually under-nourished, weak and brittle. Why do we want to look like junkies? I hate that I resent my muffin top, but I do. And I’m not alone. Why do have to be so OCD about our asses? Humans, so complex. It's all a rich tapestry.

Anyway, I’ll keep reading this book. If nothing else, it’s making me be mindful of my bad habits, which is a good thing. And it’s making me laugh. What’s not to love?