On May 16th I started a low carb diet. My carb intake ranges from 20-25 carbs per day. I am hoping that it works out well.
When I was pregnant with my son I had gestational diabetes. I was put on a low carb diet and my weight loss in the first week was quite high (around 7 pounds). They changed it so I consumed more carbs because I shouldn't have lost weight when I was pregnant.
I haven't weighed myself yet, but I will this weekend. I am not expecting a dramatic weight loss in such a short time. The Atkins.com website states you can lose up to 15 pounds in your first two weeks. I am banking on maybe 5-7 pounds instead. If I aim low and it is higher I will be pleasantly surprised. If it is the huge amount of 15 pounds or even close to that I will be ecstatic.
Size 8 here I come. :-)
Friday, May 18, 2012
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Saturday, August 6, 2011
Tattoo Reality Shows
The effect of television on the popularity of tattoos has been dynamic. Tattoos are in-skin everywhere: On every actor, popstar and supermodel-checkout person you’ll ever see! I’m exaggerating a bit but, the number of documentary and reality shows about the very wide world of body modification appears to be at an all-time high. We have a broad variety of programs on tattoo parlors, tattoo history and other “extreme” body mods like piercing and implants.
A (seemingly), one-off presentation that was scary to me was “Tattoo School” on The Learning Channel (TLC). Somewhere between documentary and reality show, its premise was that you could learn everything you need to know about How-to-Tattoo in just two weeks. Watching someone learning to practice tattooing in such a short time and seeing them performing their meager skills on a person during most of their brief learning was horrific to me. Tattooing isn’t something that you can learn in 14 days: It takes years of apprenticing in technique and hygiene application before you can be let loose on the unadorned public.
Reality shows such as “Miami Ink”, “LA Ink” and the latest addition to the being-inked franchise: “NY Ink”, attempt to show you what real tattooing is about. Sure, there are tattoo shops that have walls covered with prefabricated designs to ink you up to look like anyone else that chose the same. Those shops don’t try to teach the true meaning of what getting a tattoo is all about. A tattoo is something that takes careful consideration; it is about having something permanently marked on your body that might have a story to tell and mean a great deal to you. TLC’s “Ink” series of shows appear to display that: They create unique designs and seem to listen to the customers’ story behind their desire for having the tattoo made.
To me, the biggest drawback to these shows is that they amplify the amount of drama that takes place. It’s in the show to add a little extra “reality” to it. I don’t need added “reality” – I can watch documentaries just fine without the need for someone to slap another person down in their boys’ basement/ padded-cell/romper-room. These shows are greatly watchable with just the tattooing and the personal stories behind the design ideas that customers bring. There’s no need for the fights over “who is dating who?” or, “which artist should run the shop?”. The only fights I like to see are about the tattoos themselves. Tattooists should compete for best portrait, script, etc. I want to see them at tattoo conventions and not (as in “NY Ink”), show Tim (“Don’t call me Timmy”) Hendricks leaving the parlor to go to a convention without us seeing said staff member at work in the convention booth.
Tattoos have never been so popular: My husband says “It’s Nature’s way of spotting the very stupid from a safe distance” but he loves me and my Ink. I’d love to see a show focus on a small-town tattoo shop. Such a reality/documentary endeavor needs to be about the art of Tattooing itself and not primarily the physical and verbal in-fighting at the place an artist works.
A (seemingly), one-off presentation that was scary to me was “Tattoo School” on The Learning Channel (TLC). Somewhere between documentary and reality show, its premise was that you could learn everything you need to know about How-to-Tattoo in just two weeks. Watching someone learning to practice tattooing in such a short time and seeing them performing their meager skills on a person during most of their brief learning was horrific to me. Tattooing isn’t something that you can learn in 14 days: It takes years of apprenticing in technique and hygiene application before you can be let loose on the unadorned public.
Reality shows such as “Miami Ink”, “LA Ink” and the latest addition to the being-inked franchise: “NY Ink”, attempt to show you what real tattooing is about. Sure, there are tattoo shops that have walls covered with prefabricated designs to ink you up to look like anyone else that chose the same. Those shops don’t try to teach the true meaning of what getting a tattoo is all about. A tattoo is something that takes careful consideration; it is about having something permanently marked on your body that might have a story to tell and mean a great deal to you. TLC’s “Ink” series of shows appear to display that: They create unique designs and seem to listen to the customers’ story behind their desire for having the tattoo made.
To me, the biggest drawback to these shows is that they amplify the amount of drama that takes place. It’s in the show to add a little extra “reality” to it. I don’t need added “reality” – I can watch documentaries just fine without the need for someone to slap another person down in their boys’ basement/ padded-cell/romper-room. These shows are greatly watchable with just the tattooing and the personal stories behind the design ideas that customers bring. There’s no need for the fights over “who is dating who?” or, “which artist should run the shop?”. The only fights I like to see are about the tattoos themselves. Tattooists should compete for best portrait, script, etc. I want to see them at tattoo conventions and not (as in “NY Ink”), show Tim (“Don’t call me Timmy”) Hendricks leaving the parlor to go to a convention without us seeing said staff member at work in the convention booth.
Tattoos have never been so popular: My husband says “It’s Nature’s way of spotting the very stupid from a safe distance” but he loves me and my Ink. I’d love to see a show focus on a small-town tattoo shop. Such a reality/documentary endeavor needs to be about the art of Tattooing itself and not primarily the physical and verbal in-fighting at the place an artist works.
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Saturday, December 5, 2009
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