Different cultures' look on weight problems

Ha!? Of course, the bath-scales must be lying, - I was thinking to myself when after I went back from USA the first thing I decided to do was to check my weight. To put on weight more than 25 pounds for less than 5 months was absolutely impossible for me. At the same time I was fed us with the only one exclamation of every one who saw me Boo, you've become fatter! instead of Welcome! How on earth could it happen when it was considered that all the time I was working as hard as a cart-horse? Besides nobody ever in the States mentioned or even hinted that I was getting fatter, neither American colleagues nor Russian students I was living with. No doubt, I gained some weight and it had bothered nobody until I came back home. Was the real reason in so-called fast food ? I remembered my first sandwich. That was Chicken McGrill. I ordered it with Coca. I was eating and I caught myself at the thought that it was the most delicious thing I had ever tasted... I guess this was the very beginning of a terrible inevitability.

The point is not that it's difficult to keep slender in the world of hamburgers & donuts. The problem is in attitude towards people who don't look like majority. In Russia it's a shame to be stout. Our women are always on some diet and are constantly counting calories lest nobody likes & everyday reproaches them. They deny themselves everything tasty and palatable though there's a talk about Russian men that 95% of them prefer plump women and the rest 5% are crazy about very plump. Is there any sense? American women don't care about their figure. They order pan cakes for breakfast, crispy chicken for dinner, crab cakes for supper. Everything comes with fries and soda. The rest of the time they spend sleeping or eating ice-cream, which is heavenly there. They enjoy themselves & do everything to their hearts' content. Their shapes don't trouble them. Moreover, they are dearly loved. Let's have a look on our women. What kind of pleasures can they experience? To go shopping is a good thing, but very prodigal. Only one woman out eight has a husband. But that doesn't mean that the lucky girl has good sex. So, anything else? The can have hobby, but they usually haven't enough time for it. The only treat they can give themselves is a piece of a honey cake but they deprive themselves even of that.

So it's up to them to decide what is more important in their lives. But I can tell how I managed to lose weight after six months. Less fat and carbohydrates and more activity and sex. I advise you to try my own keep-fit program.