There is an article in Fitness magazine about losing weight This article disturbed me. Fitness took a survey of 1,000 women about their thoughts on diet and fitness. The following statistics resulted:
42% of women have used ephedra, hoodia, fen-phen, a diuretic or prescription weight loss pill/other drug to lose weight.
23% of women would spend a week in jail to reach their ideal weight. 23% would shave their head and 21% would trade 10 years of their life.
Women have used desperate measures. 33% have cleared their house of bad food. 24% have drank only liquids for at least a day. 11% have taken laxatives and 6% have purged. 4% have used miracle cleanse.
85% would rather have an extra toe than 50 extra pounds.
To polish that off, most women described themselves as chunky (30%) or curvy (29%).
(This is a fitness magazine so they probably polled women who are a little more shall we say, obsessed with their shape...)
I haven't found myself doing stupid things for weight loss. I've read with interest lots of stupid ideas and wondered if they could possibly work and fantasized what I would look like if they did. It seems you never look fine to yourself. Even the most beautiful women in the world will find themselves unattractive. How do we get over that? We do need to be a healthy weight...
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