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  • Essay / The Weight Watcher's Dilemma - 1808

    The Weight Watcher's Dilemma Sit down and think about all the features you would like to change about yourself. Then imagine yourself perfectly. Imagine looking exactly the way you want, think of how amazing and satisfied you will feel. Now, what is stopping you from achieving these goals of personal perfection? Do they seem out of your reach? Flipping through the channels, one finds no signs of obesity or malnutrition, until one comes across a charity advert featuring Sarah McLaughlin. As soon as the television is turned off, the vision of reality returns. Humans are huge! In the past, we lost weight naturally and maintained a healthy lifestyle through manual labor and subsistence. Today, the world is full of laziness and sloppy obsessions and industrialization spoon-feeds bad habits. The dilemma that most health-conscious individuals face starts from the heart and branches out to other dilemmas, including eating habits, media consumption, food anxiety, and economic factors. The problem seems external, given all the unappealing side effects of obesity; However, a weight watcher's real dilemma lies in the mind. The mind has the ability to manipulate limbs and generate action. Evidence suggests that the brain can release chemicals into the brain that will make a situation better or worse. The solution lies in the ability to manage the different perspectives and lifestyles naturalized by external forces like the media and industrial corporations. The body is known for adaptation and will adapt to anything given to it, in moderation. Essentially, we must exercise the mind in confidence and self-satisfaction, which will result in happiness that will perpetuate a healthy body. When developing a new lifestyle ...... middle of paper ...... o training routines suggest that they are problematic. The Insanity workout regime is a national craze that requires the person to do short amounts of exercise where instead of pushing the body to its limits, it challenges the mind to work beyond comprehension. I decided to participate in this heinous exercise and it literally becomes a mental war to continue. The amazing part about exercising is that if you can train your mind to ignore the body's signals to continue, you finish the workout and feel completely triumphant. Eventually you see results. The word crazy or crazy means to keep doing the same thing expecting different results and this workout breaks that definition because after a while of doing the same exercise over and over again you definitely see results. This idea that the mind controls everything that happens to the body essentializes weight loss..