Halloween Over, On to Thanksgiving

The three most dangerous months for a woman are November, December and January.

Halloween is over, but you've been exposed to all that candy. The media will not give you a moment's rest until the end of January - you will be bombarded with weight loss program advertisements - Jenny Craig, Weight Watchers and so on, as well as weight loss pills and shakes.

You will be told you're too fat, and shown pictures on TV of perfectly fine, slender women without an ounce of unneccessary fat on their bodies.

The danger I'm talking about - psychological.

Studies have shown that girls as young as 7 or 8 become obsessed with their bodies and how much they weigh - due entirely to mass media.

And of course the government has now gotten into the act, and shortly your kids will have any candy they have brought to school confiscated. They'll be weighed and put on diets (which will be easy since apparently schools provide practically all of the food - lunch as well as breakfast! - for poor kids).

And of course if you're obese you'll have to pay more for your health insurance (that piece of news came out yesterday.)

So being slender will no longer be voluntary, it will be a mandate from the government. Well, that's what happens when health care insurance is taken out of the hands of private companies and given to the government.

Well...that's a bit of a rant, isn't it?

The point Im trying to make is, your daughters, and your sons, need careful raising. Just as girls learn from earliest days that they are put on this earth to be eye candy for guys, so boys learn that as well. Ever seen the clothes for girls these days - shorts that cover their butt and that's about it? Well...actually if you look at fashion photos you see that girls always wore shorts that short, as did boys...now the girls continue to wear those short shorts while the boys wear shorts down to their ankles.

A crime against fashion.

Ah, well, I'm ranting again.

It's Tuesday. You did your weight training on Monday, will do it again on Wednesday and Friday. You'll ride your bike or walk every day - assuming you're fortunate enough to live in a state that doesn't have bonechilling cold. Otherwise, you'll go to a mall and walk around.

And you won't let the bombardment of commercials harm your psyche.