Obesity is a nightmare for many women. Why it is going on like that? The first of those reasons that you can look around nearby yourself is the fashion. Most of them have designed for the woman that she has a perfect body to slim body. Although it will have a big size design, it hard to find the style that look same the catwalk. The perfect dream of women is have a perfect shape. They can have the perfect shape in the correct ways by have an exercise, healthy food, and good rest.
I am a one of those people that I want to have a perfect shape. It is not a good story if your friend, family, or coworker says hi to you by these sentences. “Are you fatter?” “Are you pregnant?” Sometime it is worse than that because they will try to find burlesque words for call you such as piggy, plumper, or Pooh. What do you think after you got them? How do you feel in your mind when you heard them? I will upset when someone did it to me.
I had seen the phrase on the cyber network it says “Woman can do anything to have a good shape except exercise”. This is the real story because many women make themselves like that, and also me. How I solve this situation? The easiest way to answer this question is use diet pills. At that moment, I am not a big girl. My weight was about 133 pounds and high 5.3 feet. On this shape it is not too big, but I always think I am fat. Another reason that I was in the university almost my friend wears the shirt around ss-sss size. I even know I can not lose weight to wear the shirt same them size, but I hope I can wear the size smaller than XL.
Although I know about the disadvantages of diet pills, I had used them. My logic is I brought the diet pills under doctor’s supervision. Doctor have to measure my pressure any time...
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...imates that you are lacking some nutrition. Moreover, you have to drink some that it is necessary for burning system. It had research public in American Dietetic Association that it specify who drinks water before eat; he or she will lose weight around 75 calories. It is not too much, but if you eat less than normal all of your meal you will lose 14.5 pounds per year.
The last ways is enough rest. You need time around 6-7 hours per day to get good sleep because your body need time to fix itself.
“Women do not stop beautiful” It is another one phrase that all women have to keep in their mind. It is motivate for you to keep in track of weight control. Right now, I am on the way to get my goal. I do not want to go fast like the way that I had used diet pills before, but I want to go slow but sure on my new way to get good result those are good shape and good health.
Now, I realize how beautiful I really am, and I never want to let go of that. I now realize that I do not need to be stick thin to be beautiful. Similar to what the article mentioned, not conforming to the unattainable image the media flaunts is a “rebellion against the powerlessness of the women, against the pressure to look and act in a certain way and against being evaluated on her ability to create an image herself” (Orbach, 252). I no longer strive to meet impossible standards but strive to be happy and healthy. The world needs to learn how to create it’s own image and stop giving the media so much power over their daily life’s and for women and men to respect themselves for them.
The issue, as mentioned above, is largely due to the fact that the media, and its air brushed models, urge women to change their appearance to become more attractive or healthy while gaining popularity and confidence with their new looks. As absurd as it may seem Celia Milne, the author of Pressures to Conform, upholds this idea and states “90 percent of Canadian women are dissatisfied with some aspect of their body” and that “they will go to frightening lengths to achieve their body ideal” (Milne 4, 9). Where does this dissatisfaction arise, and why should people who already have a normal body mass index (BMI) be intent on loosing weight? The answer lays in the media as it presents young women with idealistic body images that, although they may appear achievable, are entirely unrealistic. Despite this glitch, most women will continue striving towards perfectionism due to peer pressure, or media influx, thus becoming trapped with a goal that they can never reach. Dieting, excessive exercising, and weight loss programs are several of the healthy options that thi...
The psychosocial aspect of obesity is often overlooked. The psychosocial issues associated with obesity are usually obvious and may often stem from discrimination (conscious and subconscious) against obese people. Researchers found that lowered self-esteem was associated with...
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