Skin Cancer
Gone are the days of fake baking, the days of baby oil and tropicana and beautiful golden skin. I went in to have some moles removed and the doctor decided to surgically remove them as they looked "suspicious." I am stitched up in 2 places now and when my doctor told me many young women come in and get diagnosed with aggressive forms of skin cancer, I decided to take his advice about tanning seriously. He told me he diagnosed a 13 year old with a deadly form of skin cancer not long ago. I am waiting to hear back from the biopsy. Meanwhile, I’ve decided this is my opportunity to save myself. I work so hard every day to live a healthy lifestyle. I don’t drink, smoke, eat trans fat or even saturated fat. So why would I do something so stupid like tan? It’s probably one of the easiest ways you can give yourself cancer. All you have to do is get it on your skin, and then it can spread to the rest of your body like wildfire. I feel like getting skin cancer is like getting AIDS, hear me out. IT’S PREVENTABLE! Yet just as people still go out and have unprotected sex, people go out giving themselves skin cancer because they feel like it can’t happen to them. And then they can’t do much when the doc tells them they have so long to live. And like AIDS, you can be a young, healthy, otherwise normal person who is going to die of something they self-inflicted.
I’ve also realized that if I work hard to stay fit and lean, I don’t need to be tan to look good. Fortunately I’m blessed in that way and I thank God for what he’s given me physically. I used to tan to make my fat look more attractive. Now I will work harder to rid the fat and have healthy youthful skin. I’ll probably throw on a light coat of jantana if I go out and want to look extra hot and get some MAC tan concealer. It’s such a hastle trying to keep a good tan too. And then you get all stressed when you start to lose it, or your tanning membership runs out. In todays economy I mean really I do not need to be spending money on something so stupid. I remember coming home from the tanning booth and having new wrinkles around my eyes, gross! Since I started drinking a lot more water, eating a lot more spinach with vitamin A and K, my skin is healthier from the inside and I intend on keeping it that way.
Also, my progress with my weight loss is coming along good and this I know because people are telling me all of a sudden my arms look really muscular. LOL. If they only knew the fat is just coming off of them. It’s funny how nobody notices when I work so hard to put on muscle because I just look "bulky." And then all of these girls are like "OMG you look so TONED." What’s frustrating is the weight is coming off of my upper body, but not my lower body yet. I just gotta keep on the stairmaster. My doc told me not to exercise for 10 days until I go in to get my stitches out, I told him I have two pounds a week to lose! He knew I probably was not going to take his advice. I have taken three needed days of rest and slept about 12 hours a night with my painkillers, but I am ready to get my sweat on now that my pain is gone.
June 13, 2009 at 8:42 am
I’ve been there. It’s scary when you’re waiting for the results. Good luck to you. I used to love getting really dark in the summer but those days are over for me. I saw a clip on tv talking about how people were baking in the sun to look like the actors on Baywatch and all of the actors had fake tans. Go figure.