Kate Moss recently said, in an interview that “Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels” (http://ipsy.me/b) which the Dail Mail, its Daily Mail way, made a big hoopla about stating “The 35-year-old model was accused of encouraging young girls to starve themselves after using an anorexics’ slogan”.
Not being a young girl myself, nor having ever really suffered from any sort food deprivation ilness, I can that I really like her moto. For someone like me, weighing in at 18 stone (about 250 lbs) who likes the occasional greasy fried chicken, a late buttery pop-corn, and perhaps more than this fare share of potatoe crisps (or potatoe chips and some are want to say) and beer, I think its damn good moto. And its true. Its not that nice lugging around 18 stone whever you go and people judge you if you are fat bastard too! I can’t say that size zero has ever been a goal of mine, but losing a bit of weight wouldn’t hurt and while anorexia certain is a pressing issues, we are really facing much more of an issue with the rolly-pollies at the moment and if anything the slogan “Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels” should be put onto every bottle of coke, every box of fried chicken, on top of every big mac bun.
I agree with you. My knees are beginning to protest at carrying too much weight. I have recently lost just over 2 stone, and saying a variant of this phrase, which I had read somewhere previously, in my head has been a great help to me.
If you haven’t already come across it, I suggest a read of “The Diet Delusion” by Gary Taubes. The book contains detailed references to his sources in medical and scienctific papers. It was a revelation to read just how flaky the science behind so called ‘healthy eating’ is. In short, the fried chicken is OK, but the (regular) coke and burger bun are not. The low fat and high wholegrain carbohydrate diet has been one huge experiment, and it clearly is failing, but it’s proponents cannot or will not accept that.
Thanks for the book suggestion … I’ll look that one up!