Okay, I swear I'm getting off this kick, but aren't they stunning? Holy cow.I have begun dieting again (Optifast) and go to a weekly nutrition session with a few other dieters. We have to report. It's like therapy. No, it IS therapy. I've done this once a year for the past three years, because I am never, never going up fifty pounds again. The most humiliating time of my life was being fat.
I watched the Ralph Lauren Spring Show online. He came out when it was over to take a bow. He is seventy-one and super thin. I thought to myself, well, he probably snorts coke to keep his weight down. Unfair, I know. I googled, "What does Ralph Lauren eat?" Apparently no one knows.
I like his clothes, although someone in the design business once told me that he was a "safe" designer. People wore his clothes because they had no taste of their own. Sounds a little snippety now.
I worked for a professor once who called Wordsworth a smarmy poet. What a spoiler.
What's been spoiled for you?
Sweets have been spoiled for me. I don't feel well when I eat them (because I always overindulge) and I get fat. As much as I wish it wasn't so, this is what happens. Yes, brownies, ice cream, candy.... Spoiled. So, as delicious as they are, I choose not to partake. And the truth is, after some time and some pouting, I don't crave them anymore.
ReplyDeleteI can do this for long periods of time, Elise, until Christmas or some kind of celebration and then I just go all hog. Therefore, the necessity to take it off once a year.
ReplyDeleteI found out that at Pizza Uno in Chicago Naomi Campbell only eats half a slice and a big salad. I realized I would never be super model slim because that is the stupidest thing to eat at Pizza Uno ever. The spoiled the hope that I could eat as much pizza as I want and look good.
ReplyDeleteMarianne, how funny, while working at PIZZARIA UNO, I saw them make the Caesar dressing with anchovies. I grew up in a double wide and knew nothing of these culinary secrets. I still eat it, but I always thing about little fishes with dead eyes every time I do.
ReplyDeleteOnce I asked this skinny girl in my high school Biology how she stayed so skinny. She told me she only ate gumballs and diet 7-UP for lunch and dinner, no breakfast. This fascinated me. At the time I didn't realize that her diet was really an eating disorder.
ReplyDeleteThe other day she added me as a friend on fb, and the first thing I looked for was a full body picture of her. She's still skinny.
I like safe fashion. I worked at the Gap for years, and they've built their fortune by sticking to the basics. There's beauty in simplistic, no-brainer fashion. Vera Wang always wears black dresses, tops, and pants in cuts similar to the type of clothing you'd find at Banana, or heaven forbid, Ralph Lauren, and she always looks glamorous.
In some ways the whole movie magic thing has been spoiled for me. I worked as an extra and also as a stand-in on THE EXECUTIONER'S SONG when I was in college. The experience made me super conscious of how a movie is put together and I have to say that sometimes distracts me from a film's narrative when I watch it.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I accidentally used Tommy Lee Jones' bathroom. And it was really gross. Another spoiler, sadly.
My high school drama teacher said Robert Frost was a sham. "Come on, the road less traveled?" she mocked.
ReplyDeleteSo even though I adore Robert Frost, I think of my teacher's critique every time I read his poetry.