It annoys me that so many people think there is a shortcut to losing weight, getting Jen Aniston's arms, those PCD girls' washboard abs and all that. There is no shortcut to a place worth going, I'm afraid.

No amount of Herbalife potion, slimming pills and patches, starvation or even Atkins is going to give you a to-die-for figure. It's like this : you want to get to a Slimville and have a choice of getting a ride in a lavish sports car, or drive your way in a rusty dusty hatchback that is your own. Had you hitched a ride and bask in the envious glance of fellow road users, you will be carless soon when your driver leaves you. On the other hand, the poor hatchback would have taken you longer to get there, but it will continue to serve you for longer.

So take your pick. Do you really want to be on protein shakes for the rest of your life? I for one can't even bear the thought of not having my cheesy pastas, my creamy nasi lemak, my heavenly Swensen desserts (kan lola kan??). Of course I want to someday be able to wear my fitting tops without having to tuck my tummy in, but when I am finally able to do that, I want abs with toned muscle which at the same time allows me eat all that I want.

The physiology of the human body is one of the most complex area to venture into. 2 years of medical can only give you the surface of it. At the end of the 5 years you will realize that you still don't know all there is to know. The systems interconnect and messing around with one will lead to the destruction of another.

I won't go into details here but let me just say this : You can't eat and eat and eat fatty food and pride upon not gaining weight unless obviously you are known to have an athlete's exercise tolerance. The food has got to go somewhere. If not the metabolically normal pathway of being tunred into storage fat, it will somehow or rather go somewhere else. When you mess with the natural system, you interfere with the workings of the body. To cut it short, you mess with your liver and gallbladder, two organs which gives you the most excruciating abdominal pain.

Google why Atkins can't work. Type ketone bodies. In layman's term, brain damage!!

The body's also equipped with an amazing defence system. That's why it will tolerate slimming crap. But not for long. It won't be long before someone tries to sue the distributor. By that time the sellers would have long be on their way to a Hawaiian vacation first class travel. Who pays? ;)

Remember that Singaporean actress with liver disease from slimming pills? Not all boyfriends will sacrifice their liver when they can't even sacrifice footie time! And of course, not if they're on the same slimming fastrack (you know who I'm talking about don't you, pretty girls? Cheeky!)

Just take some time and think. Do some reading. Ask medical experts. Then hit the gym, take up kickboxing, run in the park when the waeather's lovely. Chances are you will grow old gracefully.

posted at 12:01 AM

1 Comments:

• At 12:21 AM,  Anonymous said...

  Haha. Guess they rather compensate those extra fats with their neurons.

   

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