Does anyone else have Heart Failure here?

springlering62

The advertising agencies do a stellar job in telling all of us we are not enough, all the time. I think all of us are brainwashed with this BS. Is this absolute truth? Of course not! Why wouldn't we be enough? It does not make sense to me.

I read an article by a millennial yesterday talking about how much anxiety social media caused her, from worry about lines in her face, to “mewing” (good lord. Look it up.) to subscribing to creams, red light masks, stickers that list the forehead, special workout programs for every single individual part of her face, the list just went on and on.

I was appalled.

She was really unloading, and seemed so utterly invested in it.

I’m so tired of hearing about Martha Stewart’s bathing suit cover, analysis of who’s had the latest work done, Pamela Anderson not wearing makeup (day-um! I haven’t worn it in years. No one celebrates ME), Kim Kardashian heroically riding a bad-foot scooter in a dress that plunges below the handlebars and stiletto heels.

And that’s just the Apple News headlines. I’m about to cancel the subscription. I only got it for the magazines I liked. Seems so much less wasteful than a shipping a paper one, but I find myself mesmerized by this crap and never get to the mags section-except on a plane.

If you block one “news” outlet, it shows up in another. It’s like whack-a-mole. I subscribe to the news FOR the news, dangit!

Sorry to vent in your thread.

Yes we ARE enough!!!!!! I’m so sick of having other people flung in my face. Do more! Spend more! Spanx this! Skims that! Hair restoration oil for you! Spray paint you face! Don’t spray paint your face! Sheer tits blouses! Barrel jeans! Skinny jeans! Mom jeans! But act fast, they’re selling out because JLo or Katie whatshername wore them!

Who ARE these people who are clamoring for this?

We’ve entered an era of quivering, cowering insecurity, and everyone is waving their open palm in our face.

kiteflyer105

Sometimes the news cracks me up. I wonder who cares about so and so's every move. I don't. Even CNN is more entertainment news now; that is disappointing. Sigh.

All the companies are predatory capitalism at best. We have to think critically what is best for us, our wallet, and financial future.

springlering62- Your post made me laugh at the ridiculousness of it all. I hope you celebrate yourself daily.

I remember being a teenager obsessed with make up and the fashion magazines. My mom told me to get over myself when I told her I had wrinkles at age 18! I would study make-up techniques and turn the Victoria's Secrets catalog upside down to look at how the make up was applied.

Now, I sincerely gag over how some of these influencers are walking advertisements over items we don't need to live a quality life. Most of it is overconsumption.

I thought this was important to share...Being in shape is far more crucial for a long, healthy life than being slim.

That’s the conclusion of the largest, most comprehensive study yet of the relationship between aerobic fitness, body mass index and longevity. A review and analysis of reams of earlier research, it found that being out of shape doubled or tripled the risk of dying prematurely, whatever someone’s age or body mass index.

On the other hand, if someone had obesity but was aerobically fit, he or she was about half as likely to die young as someone whose weight was normal but their aerobic fitness low.

“This tells us that it’s much more important, all things considered, to focus on the fitness aspect” of health and longevity “rather than the fatness aspect,” said Siddhartha Angadi, an exercise physiologist at the University of Virginia and the study’s senior author.

The study, published in November in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, adds to the growing research that people can be healthy and live long at any weight if they are also active and fit.

That message may be especially timely now, as New Year’s resolutions are in full swing, since the findings suggest even a little exercise could be enough to improve our fitness and drop our mortality risk, whether we gained pounds in the last year or not.