Thoughts on slimness

Today it has become popular and even fashionable to be healthy. Living a healthy life isn't something extraordinary anymore. On the contrary it has become real. The mass media propaganda fights with different kinds of all bad habits and strongly recommends you to live a healthy life. But now can one be healthy without being slim and slender? It's essential that you must be slim in order to achieve everything. And, of course, all the means of mass media offer you different ways to reach your goals.

There are one million and one way to loose weight, moreover, to loose it without going into great paths and sufferings. In the past have gone all the strict diets that could drive us to death from starvation, all the hours in a gym, without any sense, all the operations... Today you can choose and turn to other methods and ways to get free of these heavy burden, this dead weight your own weight. The ad in newspapers, the happy smiling (slim!) lady on TV says...this is the magic pill (tablet, mixture, balsam whatever), take it and you'll be happy in slender till the rest of your days...

You'll loose 60,80, even 90 pounds or your waist and hips will become more thin. How often do you have to hear or see such ads? Do you really want to follow them? Are you eager to try?

I've also found myself in such situation of choice. Of course, I'm not an expert and don't intent to be, but anyway I'm writing this judging from my personal experience. I have an excess weight and this problem problem of loosing weight is essential for me. But I won't surprise you saying 2 things: there are no ideal people and everyone has his own individuality. Many of my friends suffer from these and even those whose bodies are a good example of perfection and arose jealous to people around, find shortcomings in themselves.

I also wanted to get rid of my extra pounds and to get a quick and at the same time expected result. First was the diet. I rejected the idea of dying from starvation, but to refuse from eating after 6 P.M. Sounded not so promising for me. Also the thought of not having any sweets spiked a fear to me. Anyway, I decided to try. This lasted only for a few days. To be honest, at the end of the last day I seemed to die from starvation and compared myself with the suffering people from African tribes. Enough! - I thought and went to the fridge as I didn't have any mental strength to bear this humiliation of depriving me from my favorite doughnouts and chocolate, I decided to follow these striking promises of taking off one's weight just by taking in simple pills. And so, I've bought these pills in naive hope to lose some pounds while lying on the sofa and doing nothing. I took these pills three times a day hoping to achieve a better result but... everything stayed the same. It didn't help at all. And after that should anyone believe TV-ads?! No way! At the end of the month, when the pills were running out and no visible effects were noticed, across my mind flashed a thought. But this was neither a thought of regret nor it was a thought of having wasted a huge sum of money in vain. I simply thought Why? Why I must eat those useless pills and spoil my stomach, otherwise I spoil it with a diet.

I've decided to go to the gym. Working out this sounded more interesting. And it did help! Of course, at first time it were hard, but at least it brought me an obvious result! Vigorous exercises in the gym this way of losing weight I consider to be most effective, at least it brought me results. But there is a problem: as soon as you quit exercising you have the risk of gaining back your pounds, lost with such hardship, plus some extra pounds. You must exercise regularly, otherwise, it won't help you. In my case regularity was the main problem I simply couldn't arrange visits to the gym.

So, this is my story, the methods I used to take off this burden of excess weight. I wouldn't say I've tried everything, but I've tried something and it didn't help. I cannot say that these ways are useless, they of course help, but that depends only on YOU, whether you want to do this or that thing. But before you do, stop and think. Do you really need this? That's the question one should answer before buying magic tablets, taking up super-diet or going into vigorous exercise.

To be absolutely honest, I can say that I still have my excess weight, but I don't struggle with it anymore.

I've found another way I accepted it, and it doesn't bother me anymore. I think the only way you can fight with your weight is to rise your self-esteem, because even if you have a perfect body and low self-esteem, you'll always look for some extra pounds on your waist and hips.

This is my way. Anyone has the right to decide.