I'm giving a class today on body fat accumulation and energy regulation. If I wanted to show an actual example of fat accumulation, I suppose I could just whip down my pants and show them my bare butt.
Yeah... NO.
Although I had a prof once who demonstrated how well the body regulates energy by taking her trousers off and putting on the leather pants she wore in high school. Yep, right in front of the whole class. It made her point well and was entertaining to boot.
There shall be no such show today. Besides, I definitely wouldn't fit into the Fancy Ass jeans I wore in high school, although I'm sure they'd be in style right now. Yikes... I hate those icky 'skinny' jeans. Hmmm. Come to think of it, I wouldn't even fit into the jeans I wore when I was 20. Funny thing, that's around the time I tried Weight Watchers.
Interesting how I thought I needed to trim down then and now I'm quite a bit heavier and am mostly at peace with my weight. That might have something to do with the styles now. If I wore the high-waisted skinny jeans now, I'm sure I'd be forced to join some weightloss program out of sheer desperation. It would be just too damn hideous.
Anyways, that Weight Watchers thing was a disaster. I cant' stand being told I CAN'T eat something. My friend Pam and I would follow the diet all week and then we'd find ourselves at some fast food joint eating hamburgers, fries and then heading to 7-11 and chowing down on ice cream bars. We'd seriously eat everything we weren't allowed to eat all week- in one day. Then we'd think, "Well we've blown the diet now, so let's just blow it some more."
I remember going on one of those diets where you eat only fruit on Monday, only vegetables on Tuesday, fruits and vegetables on Wednesday... and then I forget the rest because that was around the time I bailed. I knew I was in trouble Wednesday evening when I was feeding the cats canned catfood and thought it smelled so good that I started to salivate and considered having a spoonful. It seriously smelled like Chunky Soup to me.
So I haven't been on a diet in ages and ages. I just try to be reasonable. And that's all I have to say on that right now. The topic is boring. I'm boring myself.
Back to preparing for class...
UPDATE: Class went well, I thought. At least no one threw rotting fruit at me. Although for a 3 hour class, they probably wanted to hoard all the food they could to sustain them through it. Unfortunately, I have this problem of stumbling over my words at times. It's totally like being marble-mouthed. First, I couldn't get the word "prepubertal" out. Blah blah blah PREPUBERTAL. And then I tried to say "detectable statistically" and it came out as, wait for it... DETESTICLE. At which point I stopped and laughed and said, "That was a good one. What I meant to say was the difference was not detectable statistically. Try and say that 10 times fast." Yep, still chuckling over that one.
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I have to say I have never, not ONCE, been on a diet in my entire life. In fact, in rebellion to a girl who used to watch everything she ate in first year university, I would stuff myself "ridiculous" at the cafeteria, then go back for more. Of course, I got the freshman 15 then. haha. My boyfriend at the time told me I was getting fat (my BMI was 20.5 at the time, which is NOT fat!) which made me a bit insecure about my weight, though not enough to actually do anything about it.
I now have a BMI of 23, which is also fine, but looking back to my high school self, I probably would have been horrified at that. Funny that now my high school jeans likely wouldn't even fit on one leg. Now I don't care much. As long as I am active and healthy, why should I be thin?
There is a real 'fat revolution' isn't there? Interesting to see how they are even starting to demand catwalk models with a certain BMI. Do you happen to know whether coconut oil gets deposited as body fat just the same as other oils/fats? I have read so much hype recently.
There needs to be a happy medium somewhere in the realm of healthy. It seems actresses get ragged on if they're too fat (even if it's only an extra ten pounds, it's pretty unreal) AND if they're too skinny. The model issue is an interesting one.
Hey AJ, Re: Coconut oil- I wouldn't follow any sort of HYPE. Hype is usually way overblown on this stuff and coconut oil is no different. It's still high in calories and saturated fat, which is fine as a small part of a person's otherwise balanced diet.
If "detesticle" was not "detectible", you were either looking in the wrong place, or at the wrong gender!.
hahaha... nice!
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