So I've been sitting here for awhile watching episodes of the show "True Life" on MTV. Yes, my life is that exciting. I love weekends. Don't worry, this isn't all I've done today--I also cleaned my house and went for a long run (outside!!! yay warm fronts!) as well as walked the dog. And then I sat on the couch and cuddled with the dog and a blanket. I love random marathons of documentary shows.
This show in particular made me think of an episode I saw not long ago called, "True Life: I can't stay thin."
Assuming I'm doing this correctly, you can watch it here:
My heart hurts for those two people. Do you think someone who grew up thin and doesn't struggle with weight or body image truly understands that it's a very difficult thing? I often wonder. I hope people who haven't struggled with weight don't watch something like that and judge the two people featured. Sadly, I am sure that some do exactly that. I wish I knew a way to make people understand what it's like. The other day someone at work asked me what made me decide to lose so much weight and I didn't have a clue of what I should say--it's like they thought I decided to be overweight, and that is a stupid thing to believe. Anyway, this show really stuck with me and I thought I would share.
And that's about as interesting as I'm going to get today. At least I can add "wrote a blog post" to my list of things I accomplished." Now I'm going to learn about girls who are compulsive shoppers...
Sunday, November 9, 2008
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I ALSO ended up watching WAY too many episodes of True Life, although I missed this one. I stopped at "I'm Living a Double Life." I agree with you. I watched just the first part, but its really heartbreaking. Its SO HARD to lose weight, especially when you've been heavy your whole life, because it requires changing habits and routines that have been in place for as long as you can remember. (And creating new ones from nothing, bascially). I've totally been where these people are. The worst for me was when I was really bulimic and lost a ton of weight. Then got healthy and put it all back on. Even today, its a struggle everyday to not give into temptation. Honestly, its the Body Bugg that finally worked for me, because it took the guess work out of it. I could finally see, literally, in terms of calories and exercising, what I was doing wrong.
Some of these True Life episodes are SO LAME. But others are just heartbreaking. Its too bad they're on MTV and on a channel like A&E, where they'll get actual help.
Sigh.
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