Biology and body image
She keeps asking me questions! Driving me nuts. Like: Why do we have hair? Why do we have lips? Lips have no purpose. But the thing that really bothers me is where do feelings come from? My toes? What’s the purpose of toes? What about the curve in our feet? People are always interested about brains. Why hasn’t anyone studied toes? Are bald people more likely to die than people with hair? Why are some people double-jointed? People are freaks. Why do we have four fingers and not three? And skin color. No wait, that one has been explained. It’s because of the sun, right? And on and on it goes. Oh thank God. Oprah is on. She shut up now. It’s not like I mind answering questions about stuff I know, but this.. I have no clue about. I tried giving logical possible answers, but then she fired another question before I even had finished answering the previous one. Sort of like a seven year old trying to figure out how the world works. Her words, not mine. Pretty fitting though.
Oooooh. Like I said, Oprah is on right now and her guests this time are people who are addicted to plastic surgery. The first woman is only 28 years old and she’s already had 26 operations. She looks like a Barbie-doll. I feel so sorry for her. She looked really pretty before she had anything done to her. Everyone told her that she sort of looked like Julia Roberts. But then her ex-husband made some comments about her nose and the size of her chest… No matter how terrible I sometimes feel about my body, I would never ever go under the knife. I feel good when I know that I’ve worked to get my body the way it is (even though there still is a whole lot of room for improvement). I know that my calves are okay-looking because I walk practically everywhere. My abdomen is flatter (not flat, but flatter) because I do sit-ups. And I like knowing that it’s because I’ve worked to look like what I am. Plus, I love the feeling I get after a work-out or a power-walk/run. I think some chemical is released that makes me feel good… If I remember correctly it’s the same one that’s released after sex and is in chocolate. thinks
I love grapes. ^-^ One thing I’ve noticed is that now that I control what we eat, we eat a whole lot more fruit (apples, grapefruit and grapes). We don’t eat sugary cereal, we have muesli (no sugar added). Mainly because it’s cheaper than the sugary stuff and we get more. There are no cookies, chips, candy… sometimes ice cream when Jaz manages to persuade me to buy it. For snacking, there’s rice cakes and carrots. Wow… this sounds like rabbit food. We do eat meat and pasta almost daily… Not much dairy though. My stomach is so going to hate me when we go to London in two weeks. Lots of fat and starch and sugar and… yech. It’s only for a weekend, so I should be fine.
Two weeks!!! Can’t wait. Which is probably pretty obvious. ^^; I have finally decided what I’ll be wearing. Not an easy decision. Limited space and limited choices. So actually it wasn’t that tough. XD