The two storylines coexist and illuminate paradoxes within the weight loss surgery narrative, connected to meaningful life events and experiences, eating practices and relationships with important others. Thea’s Story: The Narrative of Fighting Weight is the experiential story, including concrete examples and quotes, highlighting bodily struggles and the inescapable ambiguity of being and having one’s body. Thea’s Medical Weight Narrative: From Severely Obese Child to Healthy Adult is her story in context of medicine and obesity treatment and expresses success and control.
Our narrative analysis of interviews, reflective notes and email correspondence disentangled two storylines illuminating paradoxes within this long-term weight loss process. We explore this through the life story of a woman who lost weight through surgery in the 1970 s and has fought against her own body, food and eating ever since. Perhaps you will be inspired to take a chance, get off your hamster wheel of life and up and go on with Life.Based in narrative phenomenology, this article describes an example of how lived time, self and bodily engagement with the social world intertwine, and how our sense of self develops. And that’s what this blog is about! Come and join me as I navigate these unknown, exciting, and fascinating waters of a life off the hamster wheel. How many of us are on this hamster wheel? How many of us are enjoying this hamster wheel? Really and honestly? If we could do something to get off the hamster wheel, to take a chance and UP ‘N GO ON with life, would we? We come home from work with but one wish to have dinner and veg out in front of a TV. Then we work all day at such high pace that enjoying the actual work and people we work with becomes impossible simply because there is no time to stop and enjoy it. How many people out there are on this spectacular hamster wheel? I see myself and so many of you as we get up in the morning, have breakfast on the go and rush to work. I know I am not telling you anything new. Being brain exhausted after a long day at the office didn’t help either. The other life, the one in which I actually have the time to stop and enjoy what I am doing and who I am became an impossibility, something I might dream about but that isn’t really my life.
Everything moved so fast that I could hardly see it. A hamster wheel that became my life as I ran, no – sprinted, down this infamous path. What I now believe I was set up with was a hamster wheel. I excelled in school, my grades were smoking, and I had no problems getting a job. I went on to to get my Master’s and then a PhD and my first job as an Assistant Professor at one of the American Universities. Like many of us, I was taught that going to school, getting good grades and securing a job was the path to take in life. I am enjoying what I am doing and more importantly I have the time to be aware of what I am doing, and that’s what really matters to me. And even though I am wandering if anyone would care to read it in the end it doesn’t really matter. So here I am, writing my very first blog. This experience is something I want to share with you. It’s more that I have suddenly found courage to get off a hamster wheel of life I didn’t like, and into the great unknown, which is what I like to call Life with a capital L. Not that all of a sudden I think people – you – may be interested in what I write.
#The hamster wheel of life movie#
How could I follow in the footsteps of one Julie Powell, the blogger featured in the movie Julie & Julia, or any other writer for that matter? But then something happened. I have been writing for years, but never actually thought I have something to say that people may want to read about.
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