This post is for you ladies, mainly. There’s an enormous pressure to remain stick thin and look impossibly youthful these days, especially if you’re in the entertainment/fashion industry, but that pressure is also felt by any young girl across the world. I’ve come across so many young women who are taking extreme measures to stay thing: harsh diets, diet pills, skipping meals, barfing, miracle drugs, starvation, and now there’s a new term out there – “drunkorexia”. Growing numbers of young women skip meals to allow them to binge drink without putting on weight. This “image” problem has been heightened by images of celebrities “lauded” for staying stick-thin while maintaining a hectic social schedule and by all these gorgeous magazine covers which shows them as being absolutely PERFECT. Just take a look at these before and after photoshop covers, and please bear in mind, this is simply for a reality check. I don’t want to come across cruel or judgmental to the celebrities show in these pictures:
before and after photoshop
Madonna before and after photoshop
Kim Kardashian before and after photoshop
Faith Hill before and after photoshop
Eating disorders have reached epidemic levels in America– all segments of society are affected: men and women, young and old, rich and poor, all minorities, all socio-economic levels
�Seven million women �One million men
So don’t get caught up in the fiction and the pressures of staying thin. You just have to commit and do the work, like the rest of us. I’m not going to lie and say it’s easy to stay in great shape. You have to change your lifestyle, commit to eating healthy, and get into a work out routine that works for you. Also, pick a realistic role model, and not just someone you see on one of those covers.
YOU have to put in the work — don’t rely on some magic pill or potion, or some fake diet fad, or start drinking senselessly so you can replace your calories, all those things don’t work.
It’s time for a REALITY CHECK, and that’s what we’re here for, to help you or someone you know, go through the rough times, and help you set and attain REAL goals.
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