Recent surveys have shown that more than 4 out of 10 women (in Australia) consider themselves overweight.
“… (a) magazine survey of more than 5000 Australian women aged 18-34 found about 42 per cent considered themselves overweight or obese.And almost half said if they could change one thing about their life it would be their body.
Ten per cent of respondents were so body depressed they said they would happily trade four or more years off their lives to slim down.”
Source: http://www.stuff.co.nz/4195869a19716.html
That last sentence amazes me. These women are actually prepared to sacrifice several years of their lives just so they will look the way they want.
When fitness/losing weight is a bad thing
Fitness enthusiasts should be the healthiest people around, not some of the unhealthiest.
About 37 per cent of respondents regularly skip breakfast, more than one in five relies on coffee to stay energized, nearly half don’t eat fruit every day and a quarter exercise once a month or less.
More concerning is that women are abandoning traditional healthy lifestyle measures to lose weight and are resorting to illicit drugs.
Seven per cent of women said they had used cocaine or amphetamines to lose weight and almost one in 10 would rather skip a meal than give up alcohol to purge the pounds.
Source: http://www.stuff.co.nz/4195869a19716.html
The problem with the society we live in is that we what things immediately. You could blame the advent of the microwave but essentially it comes down to the fact that we are greedy. You might be able to quick a microwave meal in 1 minute, but you can’t change your physique that way.
It won’t happen overnight!
No one in the world can go from flab to a six pack overnight. In extreme cases people have been known to do it in a matter of weeks, but in reality such a goal will require a lifestyle change. Not a quick-fix diet, not starvation and definitely not cocaine!
The formula to almost any fitness goal (whether mass gain or muscle toning) has remained the same for a very long time.
Exercise/working out + a healthy diet = a healthy fit body
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