Are you looking for a diet to get skinny and feel the feedom of a smaller body without all the fat? This is what is driving a lot of the diet industry today but we are having less luck losing weight than ever before. People are looking for diets and dieting tips to lose weight and cut the fat. At the same time we are, as a group, getting more obese as the month go by. What is going on?
We are getting two conflicting messages from all the advertisements we see on TV. First we are taught that food can bring us happiness. Watch the food commercials, the people are always eating rich, calorie laden foods and having a great time. They are always laughing and really enjoying themselves. A new strategy is to make us feel that we can have quality time by visiting these restaurants and bringing the whole family. The advertisers know what they are doing. They are linking the positive images on the screen with our desires for how we want our lives to be. So we think if we eat the food our lives will be happy and exciting. We think if we visit the restaraunt our family will instantly become closer and more loving.
So we have this one side of the coin which is a manipulation of what we tie the food to. It is no longer for our survival. Instead, it is tied into entertainment and feeling good.
The other side of the coin is this image that we have to be as thin as a New York model if we want to have fun and enjoy our lives. The people if the advertisements are always thin and beautiful. I can guarantee you that if the models on the screen were actually eating the food they were pitching, then they would no longer be thin. The foods are not conducive to having a thin or skinny body. Thus we have two conflicting images to process. One says you have to eat high calorie food and lots of it to be happy. The other image shows the only people enjoying life as the ones who are thin and beautiful.
We can't have both and that is where the problem lies. If you want to lose weight and have a thin body then you need to change how you eat. You need to find a healthy diet and weight loss plan that will help you to lose the inches in a safe way. And if you decide to eat the foods that are so well portrayed on the screen then you will gain weight and be fat. It is up to you to choose a diet plan that helps you, is healthy, and can be sustained.
Saturday, March 7, 2009
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