You, Me, and ED

True Campaign

Take a break from politics and look at a more positive type of campaign...

My friend Constance Rhodes, the founder of Finding Balance www.findingbalance.com and author of Life Inside the Thin Cage has also been instrumental in launching the True Campaign. 

If you haven't been to the site and joined in the campaign I urge you to do so! Amazing work is being done by this fantastic campaign!

Check out this video 

Download true_2.wmv

and then go see the site at www.truecampaign.org (you can watch the video without having to download it on the True Campaign website)

Join in the True Campaign Army!!

Happy Living!

Lee

Beauty is not how skinny you can be!

Watch this video!!!!

Beauty is not how skinny you can be!

Happy Living!
LWB

Desperate?

When desperate housewives began a few years ago I was standing in my kitchen with my mouth open so wide my bottom lip could have swept the floor.

Why? Because - the idea that these women could look the way they did, do the things they did, and live the life they did...I knew would have some sort of impact on women my age (late thirties) and older. In the last ten years eating disorders in women over 30 has risen quite significantly and to have a show like this, in my opinion, did not help.

Let me preface this with what I also know to be true. The media doesn't cause eating disorders. Desperate Housewives is a TV show, and one that leans towards the absurd and skims the edge of reality. I am well aware of that.

But, come on people...we cannot deny that the women on the show continue to feed into the unrealistic women projected in our society. Thus I began calling the rise in adult onset eating disorders the Desperate Housewife Syndrome.

Which leads me to this post. Last Sunday my kids and I were watching Home Makeover and the television was left on.