Get Skinny Fast - and Other Bollocks

There's no magic formula to losing weight...

For a long time I believed that 'get rich / thin quick' method is really possible. It's all the influence of media, planting images in our heads of rich and successful celebrities who don't seem to be doing much. You don't get to see people working hard to achieve their goals, you only hear the stories of people living on a dough, having 5 bedroom mansions! It's not surprising we don't push ourselves; we don't strive to work hard to achieve anything.

The same goes with the diets - how many times have you heard about people losing weight due to their healthy lifestyle, exercise regime and self-control? Me neither. No, you only hear the stories about a new 8-hour diet (yes, it's there), gastric band surgeries and magic diet pills. That's the images we see and that's what we think we need - instant overnight results in a packet. No hard work, no responsibility for what we eat. You only hear excuses and blame games. Don't blame the genes for obesity - that's an absolute bollocks! Genes take hundreds of years to adjust to change a body - like losing a tail or a body hair we had beck in the Iron Ages. Sorry, that's not a plausible excuse and it shouldn't be taught to our kids.