Mandi Arabbo
Elizabeth Natter
English 1180
9 October 2014
Work Hard, But Not Too Hard! How do you think society measures “perfection”? Is it measured in cups of coffee or make-up? How about the number on a scale or the reflection we see in the mirror? In a female’s perspective, women become fascinated with everything that is exposed to them; they feel that it is mandatory to follow the “New Trend.” A lot of the females do not understand that the celebrities may say to maintain their nice physique they eat healthy. Yet in reality 95% of them either have gone through plastic surgery or some other procedure that will harm their body severely. They are so concerned on competing and being the best one out there that they forget what their body can and cannot handle. Most of the time the outcome of being over obsessed with their diets, leads to damaging their health and spending money on unnecessary products as well as develop some kind of eating disorder. Tori Spelling, an amazing actress and author reports that she lost 45 pounds after her fourth baby, by simply working out and maintaining a healthy diet. Little did you know she published a book six months later called “Spelling It Like It Is,” confessing that she never worked out a day in her life. She lost 45 pounds the old fashion way by eating nothing but air. Tori later explained in her novel the only reason she lied to her fans and readers was because her publicist gave her strict instructions, to look good in front of everyone that admires her. By Starving herself, led to metabolism and thyroid problems in the future. The reason for her confession was to inform everyone how important it is to lose weight, the healthy way. In this generation, everyone is looking for the easy way out to have the figure of their dreams, and fast results so they end up taking diet pills. I understand that they are convenient and tempting, but believe it or not, diet pills are a waste of money. The only things diet pills will end up doing is cause cruel problems to your health and body. Coming from the person that had multiple friends who would consistently take diet pills, the only thing that benefit them from those diet pills was a lost of appetite, an increase of the amount of calories burned, and decrease the amount of fat inserted to your body. Sure all of those benefits do not sound too bad, however, the pills did cause my good friends to have long-term health problems. Some of those health problems they developed were asthma, also an increase of blood pressure. So think about it? Is it really worth spending all of your money on diet pills? Females have this image where to be accepted, they need to look a certain way. Skin and bones are not what people like to see, in fact that, would give people the assumption that you have some kind of eating disorder. Eating healthy becomes an obsession when they start to see results, which will end up to some kind of eating disorder. Paula Abdul, a famous singer, dancer, and choreography suffered severely from bulimia back in 1996. She claims it started off with eating healthy and saw some results. She then got obsessed with loosing weight and got disgusted with food, when she entered the “Hollywood World.” Only cause she felt as if she had to look a certain way to be accepted. After three years of my friends taking those diet pills they realized they were only hurting themselves so they threw them out. Unfortunately when, they came to the realization, they were already diagnosed with at least three major medical problems. However they stopped before their health got even worse then it already was. As for Tori Spelling she established that she developed an eating disorder that harmed her body severely, and was not worth it one bit. Paula Abdul on the other hand came to a conclusion that “no one will ever love you more then you will ever love yourself.” All I’m trying to state is not to over obsess on your diet, and know your body’s limitations.