Weighing up the facts...

Isn't the symbol for Libra the scales? I'm a libran, although I'm not really a big follower of the star signs but maybe that will explain how much I think about weight!! I have to admit I don't actually know very many women who don't think about weight, even if it is just occasionally. Not me though, I think about it A LOT!! One of my best friends and I would text each other at least once a day with some kind of comment about weight or eating.
To start with, I'm not hugely overweight according to health standards (have you ever noticed that doctors healthy weight standards are at least 10kg more than what we would like to be, or is that just me?)but I'm slightly larger than society's standards and definitely a lot heavier than I would like to be.
In high school I couldn't care less about weight. I did sport, about once a fortnight I ate buttered rolls with salt and vinegar chips (great, now I mentioned it I want one! Damn it!), on normal days I ate two ryvitas with vegimite (this wasn't a diet, just all I could be bothered bringing from home). My downfall came when I got my first full time job and started buying my lunch everyday, that was when the weight started to make its way up (and up and up).
Now we all know the correct way to lose and maintain a healthy weight, exercise, everything in moderation, deprive yourself of nothing, don't overindulge, go easy on the sugars and fats blah blah blah! WE ALL KNOW THAT!! But come on, we all want the quick fix! Believe me I've tried a lot. The quickest most successful for me was the no carbs phase!I actually heard about it years before it worked for me but when I first tried it I really had no idea. I thought it was just no bread, rice and pasta. I was still eating lollies and doing things like ordering ice cream in a cup, not a cone! Ummm hellooo Bimbo alert!!! When I actually educated myself I dropped about 8kg on no carbs and pretty much put it all back on the second a crumb of bread touched my lips!!

When I was 22 I started this weird eating plan of an orange for breakfast, frozen coke for lunch and steak, salad and two white dinner rolls for dinner plus I was walking everyday. Insane!! I lost 11kgs but I certainly don't recommend it, I have however always kept that weight off. Up until the last two years of course. Over the last two years I have formed a pattern of putting it on then losing it, then putting it on again plus 2kg etc.

I don't judge other people's weight, only my own, I do, however always notice women who, in my opinion, have great bodies. A great body to me doesn't necessarily mean stick thin with what my friends and I call 'baby deer legs'.
Take Marilyn Monroe, she was not a small woman, she had curves and looked fantastic, she was voluptuous (or volumptuous as some people tend to say, for reasons unbeknown to me). Look at Beyonce and Kim Kardashian, they have both got 'bootie' and look fantastic. Of course their bootie doesn't move. Mine moves! That is why I wear jeans so often, they keep everything in check! I always find it amusing that when I'm standing in queues in front of little kids they seem to feel the need to touch my butt, one little boy kept sticking his finger into the fleshiest part of my butt as if he thought it was a big ole cushion. Cute? Yes, but also a little embarrassing!
The other day I put my bathers on, when I put the bottoms on, they were so small I actually thought I had them on back to front! Yikes! Needless to say I've been cutting down on the eating and exercising more everyday since then!

I know weight shouldn't be such a big issue but it is! Even men think/talk about it. I hang out with guys a fair bit so I hear their comments. One guy was telling me the other day that when he was out recently two women came and sat next to him. One started talking to him, he said she was really pretty but when she stood up he saw she was bigger in the bottom half than she appeared to be when she was sitting down so he didn't bother talking to her anymore! I didn't comment when he told me but I was horrified! Seriously, what chance do women have?!

I do have a confession to make....I LOVE FOOD! Especially savoury food. When I'm feeling down, I eat, but even worse, when I'm bored I eat. Weeknights are the worst! Sometimes at night I'll just go for a drive to prevent myself from eating. I get comfort in the fact that even women as powerful as Oprah struggle with their eating.
Right now I'm at a no more excuses stage which is great, but lets face it, I have been their many, many times before so I'll just have to take it day by day!

So...off to Hungry Jacks to get some dinner then....I'M KIDDING!!!!!!!

Until next time (I'll be less serious next time),
the last single 34yr old woman xx