I agree with you completely randolf.
EVERYTHING we see, adverts for diets, diet supplements, government health guidelines, nearly every single thing we see that advocates a healthy diet in the media and advertising,.....the wording used 99.9 % of the time is WEIGHT LOSS.
Hardly ever is it described as FAT loss.
And they wonder why so many of the population is so uninformed when it comes to having a healthy lifestyle.
Fat in itself is much harder to shift than actual weight. You need some sort of strategy.
Most people are taught that if you restrict your calories you lose weight....And they think it's as simple as that and the problem is solved.
As though that's all you need to know to be healthy.
I've spoken to people who when the issue of dieting springs up, they talk about dieting exclusively to lose WEIGHT. As though weight is more important to lose than fat.
They aspire to look like a famous singer or actor who they admire the look of, and they really think that just losing WEIGHT is the route to take to get a great body.
I think it's the minority who understand that just losing weight isn't the answer to getting a shape they want.
Even with women, muscle goes a long way to define what shape you are.
You see many people who lose a load of weight after a diet,.....but they don't necessarily have the body of their dreams, they just look skinny. They don't necessarily look great from being thin.
You need to exercise in some way to get a good healthy body.
If I just lost 2 stone of weight, I think I would look worse than what I do now.
There can be a dramatic difference in the way a body would look from just losing a lot of weight fast, and a body that has lost fat gradually due to good diet and exercise.
I think our societies are obsessed with losing WEIGHT. It's as though many people think of it mainly for reasons of vanity, and ignore what that actually means.
I don't think it's necessarily about our cultures just being lazy about their bodies. I think it's more to do with society being ignorant about what really needs to be done. They just assume that eating less is the answer, and don't educate themselves further.
They just accept too readily what the soundbites coming from the media tell them without researching things for themselves. If they are told 99% of the time by their televisions that they just need to eat less calories, that's exactly what they'll do. If they don't look around for more information they'll be none the wiser.
I'm sure that many people think that you only have to diet down to get a body like Brad Pitt.
It just won't happen unless people realise that they have to focus on fat loss and not just weight loss.
EVERYTHING we see, adverts for diets, diet supplements, government health guidelines, nearly every single thing we see that advocates a healthy diet in the media and advertising,.....the wording used 99.9 % of the time is WEIGHT LOSS.
Hardly ever is it described as FAT loss.
And they wonder why so many of the population is so uninformed when it comes to having a healthy lifestyle.
Fat in itself is much harder to shift than actual weight. You need some sort of strategy.
Most people are taught that if you restrict your calories you lose weight....And they think it's as simple as that and the problem is solved.
As though that's all you need to know to be healthy.
I've spoken to people who when the issue of dieting springs up, they talk about dieting exclusively to lose WEIGHT. As though weight is more important to lose than fat.
They aspire to look like a famous singer or actor who they admire the look of, and they really think that just losing WEIGHT is the route to take to get a great body.
I think it's the minority who understand that just losing weight isn't the answer to getting a shape they want.
Even with women, muscle goes a long way to define what shape you are.
You see many people who lose a load of weight after a diet,.....but they don't necessarily have the body of their dreams, they just look skinny. They don't necessarily look great from being thin.
You need to exercise in some way to get a good healthy body.
If I just lost 2 stone of weight, I think I would look worse than what I do now.
There can be a dramatic difference in the way a body would look from just losing a lot of weight fast, and a body that has lost fat gradually due to good diet and exercise.
I think our societies are obsessed with losing WEIGHT. It's as though many people think of it mainly for reasons of vanity, and ignore what that actually means.
I don't think it's necessarily about our cultures just being lazy about their bodies. I think it's more to do with society being ignorant about what really needs to be done. They just assume that eating less is the answer, and don't educate themselves further.
They just accept too readily what the soundbites coming from the media tell them without researching things for themselves. If they are told 99% of the time by their televisions that they just need to eat less calories, that's exactly what they'll do. If they don't look around for more information they'll be none the wiser.
I'm sure that many people think that you only have to diet down to get a body like Brad Pitt.
It just won't happen unless people realise that they have to focus on fat loss and not just weight loss.