Isn't That A Little Personal?

How would you feel about posting a picture of the inside of your fridge on Facebook? That was our assignment at the Institute of Integrative Nutrition last week! We had to post it on the IIN's Facebook Group page (of about 1000 members!) For some reason, I never got around to posting a real picture of my fridge, only the above pic of my daughter's Barbie kitchen! How on earth to those Barbies stay thin like that eating all that junk food? But perhaps that's beside the point right now. Let's focus on my resistance to posting the fridge picture!

At first I thought "I can't take the picture today because the fridge is almost empty". I'll go shopping, then take the picture." When the shopping was done, I thought "maybe I should clean the fridge now" (after having seen hundreds of pristine fridge pictures filled with foods so healthy they made me want to eat a bag of chips... my fridge was still not ready to show off). But then I thought "the whole point of this assignment is to track our improvement over the year and to be able to look back at our fridge picture and say...I'm eating much healthier stuff now." That being said, I think most people are cheating with their fridge pictures!

Honestly, our fridge is not that bad, but I'm still resisting the photo shoot. It sort of feels like posting a picture of the inside of my mouth. It's unique, personal, and if I don't clean it once in a while, I'll find some stuff past it's expiration date. But that's personal, right? Sorry, but it just doesn't feel right to me to post that picture. I do hope I still get to graduate. I'm hoping our next assignment will not be to post naked pictures of ourselves to see the "before and after" results. Well, that's one way the IIN could increase their web traffic!