It seems the madness is beginning again.
Yesterday in the supermarket queue, I idly scanned the magazine racks as usual. Nearly every magazine intended for women had as at least a bold subtitle on the cover some kind of weight loss programme – everything from bikini body to getting in shape for the New Year.
Years ago I used to buy them all, and test them keenly. The magazine racks yesterday were pretty empty so I imagine there are many women doing the same thing, and beating themselves up in a couple of weeks for not maintaining the weight loss the newest programme promised.
Madison’s weight loss article was a little different – the real reason you can’t lose those last five kilos. sigh.
Even Reader’s Digest were in on the act, with a story on the essential role of sleep in our lives – guess what, enough sleep can make you slimmer!
There were two exceptions to the ‘lose weight now’ messages on the women’s mags – one was the increasingly common “she’s too skinny” story about a celebrity, accompanied of course by a suitable pic of her bones poking out under her skin, and then in Cosmopolitan, to my shock, a “Body Peace” pact. Wasn’t it Cosmo which last year refused to hire a model the editor thought was too skinny?
Anyway, that headline (not quite the smallest on the cover) made me do something I’d not done for years – I bought a women’s magazine!
The story makes it all the way to page 144 of 194 pages, but it’s still refreshing to see a story like this at all!
It’s about finding your natural happy weight and getting on with life. Just what this blog’s about 
But one article in the middle of hundreds of images of photoshopped ‘perfect’ very thin women… still, it’s a start.
