I was lucky to watch two kids for the last 4 days who are really self sufficient. They pretty much entertained themselves most afternoons between play dates, friends coming over and a few fun events I had planned. So I had some extra time the last few days to catch up on my mid-afternoon TV reruns, read up on the new fall fashion tends and get the scoop on the latest celebrity gossip, along with catching a nap (or two).
I found the latest issue of Lucky Magazine in their living room and lost myself in reading up on fall fashion.
Right now I am focusing more on weight loss through healthy eating and fitness and I’m not lying when I say it’s pretty hard work. I do want to trim down my body so I can run faster, feel better, and simply be healthier. But I’m realistic. I want to be a healthy weight for my body frame. I don’t want to starve myself and workout to exhaustion. I want my body to be healthy!
In this issue of Lucky, Jessica Alba’s featured article talks about her plan to “lose the baby weight” once she delivers her second child.
I’m not trying to bash Jessica. In fact I really like her. I love her fashion sense, the movies she does. But something about her weight loss plan really struck me and made me a little down about my own healthy eating for weight loss.
Jessica first talks about portion control and how she has meals delivered. Which I think anyone would do if they were making millions and millions of dollars on a single movie, I know I would. But she eats only 1200 calories a day! She also will start working out 5 days a week once the baby is born, for 1 hour and up it to 3 soon after.
I think every girl reads magazines and in some form drools over celebrities bodies. I do. I love how Jennifer Aniston looks in her white crop jeans and how Kate Middleton looks in her cute TopShop dresses.
I definitely don’t want to be a size zero and realistically I don’t even want to be as thin as most celebrities. But I don’t think this is the way to get a healthy body, or emotionally healthy mind.
Reading this would make anyone self-conscious and a little defeated over their own diets and fitness routines, especially women who are on a weight loss journey right now. I found this article a little disheartening. I want to be trim, healthy, and confident with myself but I don’t want to starve and spend half my day at the gym doing cardio.
I know that this isn’t the only way to get a healthy body and in no way does it affect my outlook on weight loss, my attempts to trim down or fitness routine but it did make me doubt my approach for a minute or two.
