Why start your re-balancing act with weight-loss? Cause FaceBook told me so.

There is nothing like the world wide web to reduce complex-whole-of-life-change down to simplistic keyword-rich mantras. This is why the Dark Mistress has settled on weight-loss as the start-up objective in her move back to embodied life – the ads on FaceBook told her to. Give FaceBook enough demographic data to work out you’re a) an Internet user, and b) over 40 and watch the continual stream of “lifestyle” ads roll in. Weight-loss, fitness support products, stress relief regimes, anti-ageing skincare, flat-abs and fat-burning foods…

This IS the time for lifestyle change for the Dark Mistress… who manages to pork-up despite exercise and walk with a laptop stoop. It is time for radical whole-of-life action… so it’s weight-loss, stress-reduction, general fitness and whatever else is required …weight-loss just happens to be an easy measure.

Those weight-loss pills on FaceBook however …. just don’t seem like the way to go. Why IS it that most ads on the internet seem incredibly dodgy? Is there a rule that says any new medium must bring to light the products normally relegated to 3am on any self-respecting TV channel?

The Dark Mistress and ten million other people are doing something never before attempted before in the history of humanity – a lifetime of desk-work by day laptop by night. Time to get serious about mitigation.

Progress Update
Weight-loss Status Update: Cold pizza for breakfast/too scared to look at scales.
Fitness Status Update: Does searching for You-Tube fitness tests count?
Stress Relief Status Update: Hmmm… not really thinking stress relief yet – might give up the small screen for a night and go watch The Social Network…

Yours,

The Dark Mistress
The Balance Blog – A reflection on virtual life versus embodied life; ostensibly finding sunshine, holistic fitness, natural weight-loss and stress relief for an obsessed workaholic screen addict, with the occasional dig at the World Wide Web.