Don’t Hate Me Because I’m a 10
Size 10 that is!
Don’t you despise the prejudice against fat in the United States?
Spending my young adult years in New York City, I was surrounded by the fashion industry bombarding me with media images of women who looked like their last meal was served in a starvation camp. Working in television, I knew many young models who starved themselves regularly. I don’t blame them. It was either conform to the expected size or don’t work.
So my question is: why idealize a size that can cause osteoporosis, heart attacks and in some cases- death? Do you know women are actually having their ribs removed to be thinner? That’s crazy!!
As the host of a national series on PBS TV, Functional Fitness, I feel it is my duty to help you become ALL that you can be without the numbers on the scale dictating what kind of day you’re going to have.
Stop comparing yourself to those photo-shopped images of anorexic waifs. You are so much more than your size. For example, I’m a wife, a mother, grandmother, an occupational therapist, and producer. What are you? You’re a unique individual and yes - you are BEAUTIFUL!
Starving yourself is insane. I should know, I’m an expert at it. I struggled with my weight for years. Turns out I have Hashimoto’s disease which really slows down metabolism.
I used to be a size 18 and dieted down to a size 4. That’s impossible to keep and I’m just not going to do that to myself anymore. Yet because I’m 5 foot 2, being a size 10 is larger than what the media considers attractive. Well I don’t need to be a size 0. I want to be a size healthy!
How about you? Do you want to be a size healthy? No starvation diets, no crazy insane high impact exercise moves that leave you feeling like you got hit by a truck. If the answer is yes, Functional Fitness is for YOU!
Suzanne Andrews founded Functional Fitness in 2008, the most popular fitness series for boomers and seniors broadcasting on over 159 Public Television stations throughout the US and Canada. Read Suzanne’s inspiring comeback story of how she survived a near fatal accident, From Deaths Door to Producing a National Fitness Series. Feel free to send Suzanne a message here.