So Very: Goop Detox; Truth or Consequences; Bratz Doll Makeover
Goop Detox
I'm really against dieting. I had a pretty bad eating disorder as a teenager. There were weeks of daily vomiting. Binging and purging. Friends calling their parents. Friends calling me out at the diner after vomiting a plate of french fries in the bathroom. It was bad. In college for a year there was starvation. I got through it by my early 20s--a lot of therapy and a breast reduction helped--but that obsession about weight is always lingering. I have a lot of family members who cannot stop talking about their weight and it makes me very uncomfortable, especially since I've gained 10 pounds since having kids. When you're a small person, 10 pounds is a lot. But because of my background, I refuse to get a scale. I refuse to count calories. I refuse to restrict myself of food. I'm so much better now. I like my body! But there's still part of me that wants to look like Carole Radziwell because I love how anorexic she is.
Anyway.
December was full of carbs and I wanted to feel better. So for the past few days, I've been very loosely following Goop's detox plan. You know what? If you want to detox--GP is the one to look towards as an example because she's very good at being skinny and spending a lot of money on food. I made the soba noodle salad which was excellent and today I'm going to make the cauliflower fried rice.
Also, I'm looking at this food-delivery service: Sakara. They have 3-day and 5-day offers.
Bratz Doll Makeover
This woman turns Bratz dolls into normal-ish looking dolls. You are not going to believe the transformation of this doll.
You know who the original Bratz doll looks like?
Goop Translations
Goop:
"After even just a week of following an elimination-based diet, we feel a bit more in control over cravings, significantly clearer in the head, and often a few pounds lighter.
Goop Translation:
"Get the Doritos out of your mouth already."
Truth or Consequences, New Mexico
Speaking of being significantly clearer, this is where we took our family vacation. It's next to the Rio Grande and is surrounded by natural hot springs.
The hot tub was fashioned out of a horse feeder. Water from the hot springs was connected to the tub.
Desert sky at dusk. This vacancy sign under a star. The vacant sign refused to be captured. It was so blurry every time I took the shot. But here are some poetic ramblings: the sky is never vacant with stars, not in Truth or Consequences.
What I'm obsessing over, watching, reading:
Downton Abbey is the worst show and I can't wait for Sunday to come around again just to hate watch it. Also, watching Downton Abbey with a historian. Just finished Fargo: Season 2 and wow, if you didn't watch it, you need to start asap. I would like these jeans. A five-year-old kid doing Hamilton. Like online dating, except for babysitters (it's how I found my invaluable sitter actually. Online.) A breakdown of President Obama's executive action on guns. Barney's is having a sale. My sister-in-law, who owns a gorgeous kids clothing shop called Dirt and Noise is having a sale. ABC Home is having a sale. Fozzie has autism? Vistajet chairman Thomas Flohr's house in the Swiss Alps. Courtney Love doing "Creep."
Thanks for reading So Very.
Have a nice week!
--Hayley