21 Jul Evolutionary principles os \\\
Speaking of evolutionary pressures, it is hard to think about FOOD when my sense of danger is in critical overdrive. Sometimes at night, I contemplated about Turtle’s intentions. Sometimes stressing about this has kept me up all night!
Tonight my spidey sense has been activated again, for some reason. Perhaps talking about evolution makes me think about the perfectly natural tendency for men to look at and be attracted to women with a certain hip-to-waist ratio. I do not believe that this particular preference makes men pigs. I think they are hard-wired that way. They don’t do it on purpose (perhaps).
I think because of my medication, and maybe also because of my genes, my hip-to-waist ratio is all out of whack. Periods of psychosis, where I start to eat ALL SORTS OF STRANGE and unusual things DO NOT HELP. And the other day, I read an article about the fact that the Ozempic style medications may not even work for me, as they don’t for a sizable proportion of the population.
Like many other people in this world, my physical appearance is only partially in my control. So, how will I hold on to my love, once he sees me?
The risk, as I see it, is that he will just abandon me for someone who has a slim waist. It is on the cards!
So, shouldn’t I just GIVE UP nowwwww? Because, , , this feels like something likely to happen.
Shapes and sizes
There are a few benefits to having a ‘classically ugly’ body. One obvious bonus is that I don’t get so COLD in winter. The cold doesn’t bother me nearly as much as other people. . .
Secondly, I have learned to appreciate lots of interesting and different shapes of diverse people’s bodies. Along the way I have learned to look at something ‘different’ about a body as it passes me by and wonder ‘how that came to be’, or ‘what caused this irregularity.’
I do wonder, if my friend Turtle, being the particular type of health professional (I believe him to be), is interested in bodies too, from a more analytical point of view. I can’t be sure of course. Because, I don’t talk to the man (in the normal way), but I have wondered these things as I make my way through the rainy streets in Melbourne.
No threats
It is interesting to me that at least two of my clients have told me that they think I have a ‘healthy’ body shape. It has me thinking about how much harder it might be on people’s bodies to be very, very lean. I am not sure if being lean has the same kind of dire health consequences as obesity. However, I know that for some people it can be hard to keep weight on. Perhaps those are the kinds of clients I can help most, with my peanut butter smoothies (that I don’t even drink (or rarely), but which my first nutrition client loves).
Ouch
Evolutionary pressures have me wanting to GIVE UP!!
Because if isn’t my waist, it will be some other critical BODY PART. . . and I am just exhausted now, so I will post this and sleeep.
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