High School Skinny! Wicked awesome. Not.
I always anticipate the checkout line at Market Basket with a mix of dread and excitement. Why? Those goddamn beauty and celeb mags that scream ridiculousness at you.
I forget about magazines, in our interweb age, but they still exist. I blogged about avoiding them on a Recovery Tip Tuesday, but a particular headline made me giggle. Maybe that wasn’t an appropriate reaction, but that’s what I did.
A Self magazine read, “Get High School Skinny!”
Ok, shitastic excellent idea.
In high school, I weighed a ton less than I do now. It was because I was
(TRIGGER WARNING)
1. Eating less than or about 500 calories a day
2. Exercising for an hour every day
and
3. Taking laxatives at the end of my high school career when I couldn’t tolerate restricting anymore.
So I laughed. Definitely not a pattern or look I’m yearning to get back to at any moment.
Is it the fountain of youth? Do people just want to relive the glory days due to lack of acceptance of their age? What is it that makes lines like that so marketable?
What do you think?
