Fat Loss Speed

Why is it that some people do not mind a bit of weight while others get so worked up by it? I usually visit parts of Africa where women seem to enjoy themselves even if they have some weight. There it seems that the fatter you are, the better it is. I even overheard some men who say that they would never marry a thin woman because they believe that she would not be able to have children. When someone overweight walked in, people would compliment them on their figures and then generally look at them with admiration. As for the thin ladies, there were no such things as people often asked them whether they were ill or they had specific problems that were stopping them from putting on weight.

I don’t know whether it is just a cultural thing because even in sports, there are some people who are considered to be fat by European standards but on African standards they are absolute babes. A case in point is the tennis super star, Serena Williams. People keep saying how out of shape she is, yet in Africa she is considered to have an exceptionally good figure. It seems that the issue of whether you are fat depends on where you are standing. If you are in an area that does not like fat, then it is easy to be classified as overweight whereas if you are in an area that accepts thin as being the best then you have to work to get to that figure. It can all get a bit confusing.

It would be a terrible thing if people could not live in their own culture because the fat fascists have taken over. I mean what right do people have to tell others that they do not want to see them fat? What kind of nonsense is that? I think it is just common sense to be able to reduce some excess weight whenever you can. However this does not give people the right to be cruel to overweight people. I get so annoyed when people who seem to be thin by the grace of good attempt to put down other people who just happen to be heavier than them. There is a kind of arrogance that believes that everyone has to resemble them in order to have any kind of value or to be worth looking at in any shape or form.

Sometimes people will stubbornly believe that they are actually fatter than they are. The negative marketing stereotypes that they live with on a daily basis right from television commercials to the office environment. There is a projection of a slim person as being ideal and every time they look at themselves, they realize that they are actually much larger than the models they see in the magazine. This can lead to a loss of confidence and a retreat from social life.

I read somewhere that this makes women obsess about their weight because they are trying to reach an artificial standard that the see. They can resort to desperate measures including the use of a pill or the use of other extreme measures such as surgery. No amount of counseling or advice will dissuade them from the belief that they are fat and ugly. Even when people make snide comments to other people, they will believe that the comments are intended for them, further plunging them back into the cycle of self doubt.

The issues of body image have been heavily influenced by the marketing media which selects models and somehow manages to convince the rest of us that if we are not as slim as those models we are worthless. Having a bit of weight can cause some discomfort and health problems but it does not mean that your life is worthless. Of course we can condemn the media for irresponsible advertising but we also have a role to play in allowing ourselves to be manipulated by those who wish to sell their products. If you understand what your ideal weight is, there is no need to put excessive pressure on yourself trying to attain what you clearly cannot.

For an interesting perspective you will need to look at how the notion of a good figure has evolved from the 1950s to the 1990s. Previously the hour glass figure was the range and quite incredibly many women managed to achieve it. Now the hour glass figure is like a distant dream from an exotic place. Nobody dares to hope for the hour glass figure because they know very well that it is nearly impossible to achieve. What then does this tell us about the transience of fashion fads and figure standards? Each age and person have their own standards and ideal weights. We should not pressurize ourselves into trying to achieve the impossible and be someone else.