The youtube video above explains not only my relationship with food, but also almost exactly how all my diets end up. I know that I am not alone in this love-hate relationship with food. I know Naomi Wolf is not saying that obesity is the best way to get healthy but that "women may in fact live longer and be generally healthier if they weigh... [more] and they refrain from dieting'" (187) seems pretty unrealistic to me. If a person already had a healthy lifestyle where they eat well and exercise then they could most likely live their whole lives at a healthy weight for their body and be able to maintain it. If a person eats junk food and does not exercise, there is no way that this could possibly be more healthy than dieting. I am not a doctor or specialist in any way but I know that when I am eating well and going to the gym (aka dieting) I feel 100 times better then I do when I am living a less healthy lifestyle. Wolf then goes on to say that dieting "may indeed cause... obesity itself," which seems nearly impossible. I can only slightly agree with this statement because I know that it is when I lose weight that I can gain it back the quickest.
Rather than criticizing Naomi Wolf, I am just going to nicely disagree with her on this subject because I strongly feel that there are right and wrong ways to diet. It is extreme to think that every diet means starving yourself or excessively going to the gym. Diets such as weight watchers are safe and personal for every person who joins. Wolf sees writing down everything you eat as obsessive, but the truth of weight watchers is that when you write down your food you see how much more you could eat without one, big unhealthy meal. I don't think Wolf could disagree with having a big, healthy salad over nachos grande!
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