Ab machines and other things

Breathing a big sigh of disgust, after flipping through my direct TV channels, I couldnt' find some cartoons to entertain Joey for 10 minutes while I ran around doing some chores, I landed on a channel that was described inthe "finder" as something to the effect of "Get A Bikini Body Today" or something like that.

They were advertising a machine to work your inner thighs in order to increase your "sex appeal."

I have about 30 channels going to waste on my TV (and probably your TV too) that are all about the next best machine that will make you "sexy" and "attractive" and "fit for wearing a bikini." And if they aren't advertising machines, its some magic hyper-metabolic pill to burn the fat while you watch the commercial.

Looking attractive is good and all .... and maybe I'm just ranting about something that's just already known - but it just disgusted me today, how much our society is focused on the "sex appeal" of being fit, instead of the "utility" of being fit. No wonder anorexia and bulemia are the mental diseases of the century of our young people. No wonder our internet is full of smut, and our sex offenders run more rampant than ever. Sex appeal is featured every where, and its tangible and visible and accessible. Therefore, more unnatural acts of sex are being experimented with and pushed upon our young people (children and teenagers).

ANyway, I could go off on a big tangent about what's wrong with our sex driven world, but what i was getting at in the first place is that all these "get fit" ads are all about sex, and not about utility.

I want to work at staying fit, but not only because I want to stay attractive for my husband - but because there's work to be done around this house that a mealy person couldn't do without muscle. And for crying out loud, JOey isn't getting any lighter, and there's no one else around but ME to lift him.

TO stay in shape for "looks" only, which is what our marketing world stuffs in our brains is the most unhealty way to approach "sexy." You pump yourself full of chemicals from magic pills, and look at "goal" images for your body and where does that leave you - depressed, and discouraged, and most of the time, out of reality. Calistenics alone and 20 minutes of running, swimming or walking a day will get your heart and mind right, and make you sexy and confident in your own way - AND most of all HEALTHY in mind, body and spirit.