16 Jan '11

This evening, I was watching a bunch of stuff I had previously recorded on Sky, including something called "Fix My Fat Heat", by a Welsh journalist called Hannah Jones.  No easy answers, but lots to think about; my only critisism really was that it was like so much other British TV and newspapers in that it never really provides a conclusion.  It also seems like it was a stan-alone program, so there's not another part of the show so you can do the Paul Harvey thing and get 'the rest of the story'. 

The basis premisis of the program seemed to be that she had tried "all the other diets" and nothing seemed to work, so she thought she's try the psychology of obesity.  She's a journalist and a published author.  At the very beginning, at one of the things she tried, she admitted her weight was 21 stone (or about 294 lb); I missed how tall she was, if they even said, but she looked like she was somewhere between 5'5" and 5'10".  I should have gone back to that section before I deleted it.  She says she's a size 24 (which equals an American size 22), so she's probably at the higher end of that height range.

She talks about the UK obesity epidemic and how there are a lot of choices out there, which I kind of agree with.  It seems to me that there a lot of ways to spend a lot of money and never arrive at an answer or a solution.  I think the things she featured included something called 'Lite for Life' (which you had to be fat enough to be accepted), Slimmer's World, hypnotherapy and psychoanalysis.  Of all her choices, she seemed to think the psychoanalysis offered the most hope and I tend to agree.  The others struck me as a bit silly--I wouldn't have stayed with them because they were just a bit too simplistic (for lack of a better word).

The psychoanalysis had her examining her relationship with food and her relationship with her family, particularly her mother.  Hannah says she loves food but she's a very picky eater.  That part sounds very familiar!  Even though there was no resolution, it gave me a lot to think about.  Fingers crossed that I continue to think on these ideas--and not just sleep on them and then return to business as usual.

I'm having a bit of a hard time going back to the Plan after my hiatus.  Tomorrow morning, I have to get some blood drawn.  I want to come home and (finally!) organize the kitchen.  I think it's going to take longer than just a day!