FertilehealthyAiming for success, not perfection…

Thank you so much for the encouragement yesterday! You guys are great!

Today is just a rambling post. If you’re wondering what happened to Fertile Friday, search me. Or bite me! I just wasn’t in the mood…

I made a lovely pot of soup last night and only had one portion. I was completely satisfied. It does work! And the bonus is that there’s enough soup for tonight too, which means I don’t have to cook, just reheat. Eating just one portion therefore saved me money too! Who knew that overeating could be that expensive?

The much-publicized Food, Inc is being released in some cities in the USA today. The movie has already generated quite a buzz. Needless to say, Big Ag and Big Food are livid and have set up numerous blogs and websites “refuting” the claims made in the movie. They are calling Food, Inc anti-farmer and anti-technology, but as Jill Richardson, who had been invited to a early screening, from La Vida Locavore (excellent and very informative site about food politics) says:

The movie was not ranting against science and technology at all. It’s main thrust was against the corporate control of our food supply and consumers’ lack of power or even knowledge over what we eat. That’s something all of these companies with anti-Food Inc sites aren’t even touching because they know they have no defense against it.

The New York Times calls Food, Inc “one of the scariest movies of the year” and “an informative, often infuriating activist documentary about the big business of feeding, or more to the political point, force-feeding, Americans all the junk that multinational corporate money can buy. You’ll shudder, shake, and just possibly lose your genetically modified lunch.”

I hope that many of my readers will go and see it. And I really hope that it will reach South Africa too, because we are certainly in the same boat over here…

Today is also the last day of the Fab Fatties Challenge and I will be submitting my points and story to them over the weekend, but I will also post it here. It was an awesome challenge and I am really glad that I participated.

I’m also very, very pleased to be a winner for a change! I won a Skinny Songs CD from Tigerlilly! Woohoo! Skinny Songs for an almost skinny lady! Thanks, Tigerlilly!

I had a session with a personal trainer this morning. Fortunately it was a freebie as part of my introduction package, because I was rubbish. It was right after my aqua aerobics class and I was finished! She showed me some free weight exercises, so I’ll do those on Sundays and Tuesdays when there are no aqua classes. We recently (about two weeks ago) changed from water dumbbells to balls in aqua class and all of us can see differences in our bodies. My chest, back and shoulder areas look different – even Craig can see it. It’s hard work, but so much fun! When it starts getting really tough, I start muttering “75 kg” under my breath, over and over again. That’s more or less where I think my body will be perfectly balanced – BMI=24. Needless to say, with that reminder, I always dig deeper and find some more stamina!

I’ve mentioned before that I adore my aqua aerobics instructor. She’s a few years older than I and has a body to die for. Not small, but toned and strong. She’s got great curves and beautiful muscles. She reminds us every day that she doesn’t do any weights, it’s all from aqua aerobics, which she does herself every day in order to work out the next day’s classes, swimming, squash and spinning (she’s a spinning instructor too). She’s an inspiration to everyone she meets! I want to look like her and I’m going to work until I do! I don’t care if it takes me 5 years!

Before someone switches off this microphone, I’d better call it a day!

Hope you have a fabulous weekend. Be kind to yourself by eating well, exercising and drinking plenty of water!

And take the Red Pill see Food, Inc!