The thing is, we're all different in the way we are built and while most of the time we can only make the best of what we've got, no matter how that looks. It doesn't matter whether we're slim, fit and healthy, average, overweight or obese; we still try to make the best of what we have.
Our Bodies are Ours!
In recent decades, the number of overweight and obese people as increased dramatically, with a variety of different opinions on what the exact cause may be. Whatever that reason is, the onus is still on every individual to do whatever they can to try and stay at least of a manageable weight and size for the sake of their health if for no other reason.
Unfortunately, health is often not the primary reason that people are almost obsessed with their weight. That honor goes to vanity! It is our need to look good that drives us to go on diets, exercise like crazy at the gym and do all manner of things in an attempt to keep our weight on the right side of what fashion dictates we should look like.
But in the end, our bodies belong to us and nobody else. It is our choice to do what we do with them that either causes them to stay slim and healthy or get fat and flabby.
The Industrial Intervention
There are whole industries built around our need to look good, with the fashion industry in the forefront of creating a certain look that millions of people aspire to whether their doctors agree or not. The clothes that are produced are aimed at the slimmer figure for the simple reason that the models that display them at fashion shows are pencil thin and that's the way designers want them to be.
Tagging along for the ride is the enormous weight loss industry, born of our incessant need to follow the fashions of the day. There is no mistake it exists because of and is linked to the clothing and fashion industry.
On the one hand, there is a common sense medically sound good reason for staying at our correct weight (as opposed to trying to be thinner than we ought to be). While on the other there is the appearance factor that forces us to start diet after diet in the pursuit of a smaller figure.
Will the Merry-Go-Round Ever End?
The question has to be "will this crazy merry-go-round of weight gain, dieting, satisfaction and then more weight gain ever end?" the short answer is "No," as long as we continue to eat whatever we want and don't get enough exercise to burn off the excess calories we are consuming.
Which leaves us in a real dilemma. Great looking and tasting food is all around us, 24/7 and the temptation is just too great for most people to avoid it.
Sure, some of us can happily buy only fresh ingredients from the supermarkets and cook our own healthy meals. But we are in the minority. It is just too easy to buy a packet of this or that easy cook, "ready to eat in 2 minutes" processed meal or processed ingredients that save time and effort in the kitchen.
Until attitudes toward processed and junk food change, people will keep getting fat. Fact! The food industry will not willingly change the ingredients in its products because that would affect their bottom line and they have to keep their shareholders happy, right?
What is Left For Us?
That leaves us in a predicament. We want to look good and wear great, fashionable clothes. But we're eating too many calories, getting too fat and are not able to fit into them!
There is the short cut of wearing body contouring shapewear undergarments, which works well for those that are still not so overweight they would be trying to cheat the laws of physics. But for the obese and morbidly obese, even this option is realistically out of reach.
That means it’s a case of diet with a vengeance or put up with wearing super plus size clothes that will only go so far to hide the embarrassing bulges no matter how well you try and conceal it. Many will diet and fail. A few will succeed and keep the weight off.
The problem still won't go away for the vast majority, which is so sad.
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