Runway models

Waist Watchers Food Diary 19 March 2010
Well folks, its Friday again! The sun is out and the sky is beautiful. The view from my bedroom is too pretty for words. I can see the hills and they are green which will last for only a few fleeting months so I must suck up as much view right now as I can. Luckily there are things in life that are wonderful and do not entail food or calories. Still they all take a backseat to Red Velvet Cake!
OK Enough random wanderings and let's get back to the subject of Waist Management.
Today I was thinking about the subject of runway models, that alien species of creature with ostrich legs and no flesh. These allegedly start out as "normal" teenagers then enter into a realm of alternate reality where dinner consists of lettuce leaves with no dressing and half a glass of water and breakfast consists of Ex-Lax. Some of these girls are under 18 and this folks, appears to be criminal neglect or flat out child abuse. The last time I saw a fashion show I was literally sickened by watching young women at the point of starvation parading around self consciously in some "creation" invented by a designer with an inflated sense of self and no conscience of anything around him/her. There are some exceptions but in general that is what I see when I watch the fashion channel.

With that in mind, let's look at what we are going for when we diet and exercise. I think the most beautiful people I have ever seen are healthy with glowing skin and sparkling eyes., These do not come from a scarcity of food and nutrition in our bodies. This comes from a sincere care about self and others. There is nothing more beautiful than a woman quietly holding a sleeping baby, it doesn't matter that that woman is the grandma. Also beautiful is the sight of kids covered in flour with chocolate on their faces presenting someone with a flattened cake held together by frosting mortar. A person who has just run a marathon and sweated all their make up off is beautiful to me. in short it is not what you wear or what you look like in silhouette,it is really and only how you look when you are truly caring about yourself and someone else. All else pales in comparison to the true radiant beauty that we see all around us on a daily basis. These young girls are beautiful but not when they are starving. They are beautiful when they are sharing an ice cream cone with a friend or trying their best to master a musical instrument or babysitting or playing with their dogs. Please let's not tell them that they are only beautiful if they debase themselves by starvation. Cut the clothes a little more generously please and let's get our beautiful daughters healthy and happy again.