Jane Fonda's Workout Book

ISBN: 9780671432171

出版社: Simon & Schuster

出版年: 1981-11

页数: 254

定价: USD 19.95

装帧: Hardcover

内容简介

A BodyAbused
As a child??? I was your basic klutz--awkward??? plump and self-conscious.
I was convinced that when God passed out gracefulness??? I had dropped
my share. I could hardly get across a room without bumping into some-
thing. I resented my body. I felt that a different??? more interesting me had
been imprisoned in the wrong body. Somehow I had been betrayed.
Objectively??? things probably were not all that bad. My father and
mother thought I was adorable. It was not as if people would look at me
and whisper??? \"Oh??? my God??? look at that fat little girl!\" What is important???
though??? is how I perceived myself. I felt plump and clumsy and so I be-
haved plump and clumsy.
Psychologists have learned that people s perception of themselves is
much more powerful in determining personality and behavior than the
way they actually look. I know beautiful women who consider them-
selves homely because when they were young their striking features
set them apart. I also know women who are far from beautiful in the
classic sense??? but who take your breath away because they exude such
an air of confidence in themselves and their looks that we perceive
them as beautiful. And I know thin women who think of themselves as
fat??? because they were fat when they were young. I was so conditioned
to thinking of myself as fat that later??? when I was really thin??? I could
never convince myself that I was thin enough.
If anyone had told me when I was a teenager that the time would
come when I would run several miles a day and work out until I was
dripping with sweat??? I would have thought he was crazy. I never enjoyed
sports. I was uncoordinated and had little endurance. I had athletic
friends who kicked and dribbled??? jumped and ran with seeming effort-
lessness??? but I had no desire to join them. In fact??? I welcomed the occa-
sional earache or cramps that gave me an excuse to skip phys. ed. I
liked to swim and I was a good rider??? but that was the extent of my ath-
letic abilities and interest.
When I was fourteen??? I went to a girls boarding school. It was there
that my friends and I developed a preoccupation with food. Eating
binges were de rigueur. In retrospect??? I suppose this was a way of re-
lieving boredom and our budding sexual tensions. I remember bingeing
on coffee ice cream by the gallon and pound cake by the pound. We
Me??? at about thirteen
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