The Hobbit Hole VI - And Whither Then? I Cannot Say...

[Professional Engineer]

The penguins have taken over! THEY are our masters now!

[Fedora]

I'm dancing like Snoopy. Oh happy day!

[Darksheare]

LOL!
Uh oh..

[JenB]

Slapping? You're too kind.

I think they're all just trying to get a rise out of us... comfortably padded Hobbity sorts.

[RosieCotton]

Probably! Or are insecure enough that they're hoping a bunch of people will respond and say they're thin enough.

[JenB]

Mmm, possibly. Or they're anorexic and it's a cry for help.

[Penny1]

~thinking about trip to Seattle~

:)

[RosieCotton]

T'ain't a happy way to be, in any case!

Ugh...ten more minutes. This has been a longggggg work day.

[Darksheare]

It was insane.
I saw this tv special about plastic surgery.
There was this woman who was absolutley GORGEOUS.
She was complaining of having supposed 'love handles'.
Tell you the truth, she was curvy in the right ways, and looked rather perfect in the artistic sense.
Only she's a Budweiser model, and over 30, so she has to compete with 'the younguns' and that means having repeat surgeries to pretty much mutilate her into conforming to someone else's steroetypical woman.

There wasn't anything wrong about her!
It was sick!
And then there's this ad for the "Ab Scissor".
There's one woman that shows up in the testimonials, and she's "OKAY" (thumbs up!) in my eyes before, but too thin after.
*ugh!*
WHY do people do that to themselves?!
/ anti-societie's false mental self image rant.

[Penny1]

Hey, girls, hang in there! Your running is probably developing a lot of muscle, so you are trimming down but it isn't showing up on the scale yet.

Once your muscles are developed nicely, you'll be burning calories even when you're just sitting in a chair doing nothing!

But don't worry that there's a bit of lagtime for it to show up on the scales, especially if you're feeling and looking trimmer.

Plateaus are a real pain, but they're temporary!

[JenB]

Yep... I try not too be self-conscious about my weight, and I'm almost happy with it, but I want to lose a little more. I'll never be a supermodel and I wouldn't want to be! But society's views are kind of disgusting.

[Fedora]

Smart aleck...

:-)

Actually, this is a smart aleck:

And this is a dumb aleck:

[Darksheare]

Well, women are SUPPOSED to have curves, because they basically are nothing BUT curves.
(To put it in artistic terms, when drawing a woman standing, the left and right thighs are two slight curves. A woman shouldn't have STRAIGHT non-curved thighs like this particular woman went and did!)
MEN have the 'stick figure' lines, women aren't supposed to.

I admit, I'm a thin little squeak of a guy so I probably shouldn't speak about normal curves or anything of the like - but what they sell off to women as normal these days is ridiculous!
They went on to describe BUTT implants.
Basically it's a breast implant stuck in your backside to give you a more 'curvaceous' backside.
*ugh*
I guess I will never understand teh what and why people do those things.
But, I probably DON'T want to understand.

[RosieCotton]

Actually, this is a smart aleck:

Has he ever played anything but?

Arrogant little twerps, most of 'em. ;-)

There are several actors I can barely stand to watch 'cause they always seem to play arrogant little twerps. He isn't like that in ALL movies, but a lot. Tom Cruise is another...though he also has other things goin' against him.

Yay! It's four o'clock! FREEEEDOM!

[Fedora]

Your cardiovascular efficiency and muscle tone are improving even though it's not showing up on the scale yet, which will set the stage for loss in scale pounds later as you stick with it.

[RosieCotton]

But, I probably DON'T want to understand.

That would probably be correct!

[RosieCotton]

Thanks for the encouragement! I'm not really worried about weight so much as just getting in shape. I'm assuming I'll weigh less when I'm in shape, but that isn't my priority. Still would be a nod that things are actually happening. ;-)

[Fedora]

It was insane.

I saw this tv special about plastic surgery.

There was this woman who was absolutley GORGEOUS.

She was complaining of having supposed 'love handles'.

[SNIP]

WHY do people do that to themselves?!

/ anti-societie's false mental self image rant.

For a really sad case like that:

Now it's Farrah forceps (Farrah Fawcett's plastic surgery gone south)

Scroll down to Post #34.

[JenB]

Oh, I know I'm more fit - heck, I can run for a full five minutes, two months ago I could barely run thirty seconds. I'd just like to finally need single-digit pants :)

Which will come soon. My ultimate goal is to finish getting in shape by August - involves probably 25 pounds more to lose and a lot of exercise...

[Darksheare]

LOL!
Being that I draw, I see women starving themselves ot be thin and go "Eeew".
My sister and I are lightweights due to a nice family inherited QUIRK.
I'll stay beanpole thin as long as I don't do 16 oz curls.
(But I'll likely start gaining a few pounds after I turn 30. That seems to be the way the family goes.)
I hate it.
When I was in the military I weighed 135 and it was HEAVEN.
After having Mono in 1997, I'm lucky to top out at 118.
(And it fluctuates wildly as well.)
I've had some people literally say that they'd kill to be 'as thin as you!' to me.
They didn't like me asking them, "I'll trade ya."