Rachel's La-La Land (:

Ah, I forgot about one issue that I wanted to blog about yesterday!

I was watching this show on MTV called True Life: I'm on a Diet. It's about these 3 people (1 boy and 2 girls) who want to lose weight, but from what I gather, their still not happy about life despite it all because their obsession destroys their own happiness and affects the people around them, except for perhaps girl number one.

Girl number one wanted to lose weight for the sake of her health and at first, it was tough for her, but she persevered and ended up attaining her first goal, but not her second. But overall, she was a happier person.

Girl number two, on the other hand, was really obsessed about her goal, and that was to win at least one title in a beauty pageant and so she decided to take the easy way out, which was crash dieting. The only other thing she ate in those 2-3 months(?) was cottage cheese and nothing else. Throughout her diet, she actually tried to make her mother not to eat since she herself couldn't, which is really not a very nice thing to do because like hello? She is your mother, who are you to order her around? Her manager(?) could see, during the pageant, that she had lost lots of weight, but knew that it would have bad reactions to her health. Later, after she won a title, she went to pig out for that one night before she announced that she was going back to crash dieting the next day. How sad is that?

The guy was always obsessed about his weight and this actually broke down his family relationship. Even on his day off from dieting, he was still making sure that he was eating healthy, which meant only eating vegetables.

Overall, the boy and girl two never seemed to be truly happy, never seemed to enjoy life and it's moments because of their obsessed need to lose weight and control their eating. It is from this show that I deduce that no matter who we are, no matter how we look like, we should be happy with who we are or run the risk of never being truly happy. If this blog post doesn't make sense or contradicts with your own personal belief then I have nothing to say. (:

AND I believe that pageants should be banned/stopped because it's sexist and degrades women, it also lowers the self esteem of women.

Amen (: