being a self-righteous arse-kicking sistah will make you both sexy and happy. ask me

oh man, don't ever let me get like this. where i call a section of my blog 'salvation' and spend it all on obsessive comments about weight and fitness and stuff. that's just crazy. crazy. crazy.

i'm nuts about the gym, but it's a healthy obsession: i loooove the way exercising like that makes me feel. i see it making me healthier and stronger. i feel how it complements my other exercise stuff. plus i don't make it there more than twice a week.

god, don't let me become crazy diet girl. that's just nuts.

i seem to know far too many chicks who are obsessed with what they eat, how much they eat, how much they weigh and what they look like. at a meal out the other day i felt a table full of women trying not to stare at my generous plateful of food. following a long involved discussion about what they were each ordering and what they really wanted to order but didn't feel they should. that's crazy stuff. just crazy.

my rules:
exercise regularly because it helps your body work - it makes your digestion work. it stops you getting stiff and sore from working at the computer all day and it staves off nasty headaches and migraines. that is my priority. years with chronic migraines and then getting rid of them makes me bless each day i wake up free of pain. you don't really appreciate this until you live with it every day. i'm not the sort of person who says things like 'bless each day'. but in this case, i am.

exercise makes you feel full of energy and strong and tough. it makes you feel like you can rely on your body to do the things you ask of it. it's nice to exercise - it's nice to ride my bike. it's nice to swim. it's nice to dance. it's nice to lift weights (i know that sounds crazy, but it's true). it's nice to do yoga (which is why i should get back into it). exercise is good for you.
exercise stops you feeling low, it makes you feel full of energy and best of all, it pumps happy-endorphins into your body which RAWKS.
eat a lot of vegetables because they are good for you. and if you're eating a lot of them you won't have room for crap food. eat good foods because they make exercising easier and nicer. eat good foods because who the hell wants to eat bad (pre-packaged, high salt, high sugar, high fat) foods when the world is full of amazing good food? it would be blasphemous to live in melbourne - in brunswick and eat horrid, unethical food like mcdonalds, or only eat pizza or meat and three vege.

do these things because your family is riddled with diabetes, heart disease, strokes and obesity. you don't want that shit. you want to live forever.

my cardinal rule: the more you exercise, the less you need to worry about the amount you eat. when you're exercising regularly junky foods aren't so appealing.
do exercise you like! what is the point of suffering? especially when there's DANCING and SWIMMING and YOGA and RIDING YOUR BIKE!

i don't know how much i weigh. i don't want to know. i don't know what dress size i am, as i make my own clothes. i don't want to know. because i make my own clothes i'm aware of my body shape in intimate detail. i notice that different types of exercises do different things to my musculature. i also notice that when i'm healthy and exercising regularly and eating well my posture is good, i don't get stiff and sore, i don't feel low and i have lots of energy. i sleep better, i do lots of excellently productive work and i'm a cheery person to be around.

being skinny won't make you happy. being skinny won't make you sexy.

being a self-righteous arse-kicking sistah will make you both sexy and happy. ask me. i'll tell you so.

Posted by Dogpossum on November 3, 2004 10:58 PM