I have one basic “food rule” that I try to follow (ok, more than one, but this one is important): if I can’t pronounce a word in the ingredient list, I try to steer clear of the product.
In the locker room today at the gym, someone had left a bottle of “Skinny Water” near the showers. Of course the name intrigued me, so I couldn’t resist the temptation to pick up this bottle and look at the proclaimed nutrients, chemicals, etc. It breaks my rule…I don’t know how to pronounce this–”EGCG (Epigallocatechin gallate)” or this..”Cyanocobalamin.”
Further, WHY does such a thing EXIST?! Really?! What’s wrong with regular tap-or filtered- water? If we eat well and stay hydrated, exercise, and rest well, there shouldn’t be a need for a drink that super-charges our metabolism and revs our bodily engines.
More than the actual ingredients & promising powers, I’m irritated by the name. We have gone to great lengths to turn our bodies into something they were never meant to be. We were not created to be super-women (I am stereotyping in saying ‘women’) who sleep 5 hours a night, hydrate with lattes and “skinny water,” work full-time, and solve everyone’s problems. Very few women are a size 4…and have the bone structure to be that size..so, why the striving? Now I’m not suggesting “letting yourself go”…as exercise & healthy eating have their place. But I wonder, at what point will we be content with our bodies–when we lose 5,10, 50 pounds or tone that one problem area? Really, you think that will solve the contentment problem? It won’t–your inner critic won’t magically go away–you must take hold of it and discipline it. It’s easy to get addicted to this “If-only-I-lose-5-pounds-”mindset; remember though, impairment begins with the first “drink.”
How can water get any skinnier??? And how can it be skinny when the ingredient list is anything but?
I recently heard someone say, “how can you dilute water? Do you dilute it with… water?”
Sara, I like the things you have to say, you should post more!!