Wait-loss In Weight-loss

There is a current sort of creeping social disease called weight-loss. Every magazine you pick up or side-ad on your computer, reeks of ways to lose weight. Most of them are termed "miraculous result" solutions. There are pills and programs and worst of all, clinics with so-called medical personnel, that promise to have you lose weight if you enlist in their businesses. The key word is "business". Hard cash is taken by these people who tell you that they guarantee weight loss. They say they provide support and advice or your money back. I would love to see some statistics on the truth of that! Almost every person I know of, or have read about, fails to keep the weight off. And please do not show me pictures titled Before and After. The truthful ones, rarities, show you the stars of their customer rosters, the stars who actually lost the pounds. One wonders, however, how long this hiatus took and how much Photo Shop went on. Even the famous K family do a lot of the latter before allowing their pictures to hit the page. While businesses do hope to achieve their goals, most of their clients are lured in by promises that neither of them can keep. In spite of medical advice and professional help, the best you can do for your body, is simply to watch what you eat. And you know what that is. Unless you want to make weight loss your life-mate, your body will thank you for accepting its normal self and happy that your mind follows along. For those in the stage and film business, their bodies are their work in part, and we all like to look at the ideal, in our minds when we are being entertained. It seems we most admire prepubescent forms that are lithe, lean and little. But we, as adults, are not naturally that way. We  fill out according to our genetic patterns. We may have wider, broader frames or abilities to put on fat in certain places that don't fit the ideal, or we may not be able to exercise as others, due to a disability. While our doctors harp on those extra ten pounds, we forget to remember that happiness begins in the mind, not the body. Our eating choices have to be sensible if we want our minds and bodies to be happy together. Unfortunately, there are those whose every waking moment is a mad drive to lose weight as the answer to all of their personal problems: finding or keeping a lover, burying their hurts in a bottle or a sugar bowl, getting the job by being bone thin, becoming a dream wonder in the gym. There is nothing wrong with choices, but sometimes they are obsessive, and take away the pleasure of other things that are worth much more as someone who lives in a society, rather than being a number on scales. One individual I think of,  spends most of her leisure time on her chosen hobby of weight loss by sweating. She is more than thin already, but goes outdoors running before dawn and  when she comes home, spends hours, off and on, riding her stationary bike. She also goes to a gym and does yoga. To me, she looks the same as ever. Then there are others, I see, who have never "slimmed down" but persist in extreme efforts in conversation and the kitchen on making meals that are as close to zero calories as eating sand. I had a friend many years ago whose body was thigh heavy, as was her mother's. My friend spent her life obsessing on diets. Finally, and sadly, she had her stomach stapled, and after that, suffered many painful years.  Was it worth it? Those thighs stayed larger than she liked, to the ends of her days. It's the life happiness in the wait, not the weight, that matters.