Even I Don’t Wake Up Looking Like Cindy Crawford

Hard to believe…I know 🙂

The truth is that Cindy Crawford was once quoted as saying, “Even I don’t wake up looking like Cindy Crawford!”

Often people have very unrealistic expectations of the type of body they would like to achieve. They often refer to popular magazines to determine their ideal body. But they are ignorant to the fact that many of the models are 23 percent underweight to begin with, have been made-up for hours, enhanced with camera tricks, and still, once the photos are developed, the pictures are cropped, airbrushed and manipulated by computer to produce a very unrealistic, unhealthy, so-called “perfect” image.

It’s very important for you to examine your genetics and to understand that fat loss is dependent on your genetic breakdown. About half of fatness is genetically determined. You can’t change this!

So examine your parents and your family to determine the types of expectations you can place upon yourself. Some people have good genes and have it easy in terms of maintaining an ideal body weight. And others have to work a lot harder. But at the end of the day, you make the choice to do the work necessary to look good, feel great and live life to the fullest!

It’s OK to want to make health improvements, but you can’t hate and despise the state you’re in now. Making these lifestyle changes is about believing you deserve to be healthier! You deserve to take the time out to exercise and eat well. It’s not about making the changes so you can look like someone else. If you make changes with this as your ultimate goal, you will not succeed, and you’ll be miserable for life! Take our word for it. We’ve seen it happen time and time again! Body hatred and dissatisfaction are hardly reserved for only the morbidly obese. In fact, many women who clearly have very little body fat to lose are not happy with their body proportions.

We are often our own worst critics and can be so hard on ourselves.

To learn more about the relationship between your weight and your parents’ weight read my full article in the Columbian titled “Unrealistic Body Image Isn’t Healthy”

You may also like this blog post Don’t Feel Old!  Feel Great! or Take Control Of Your Fitness Goals – Here’s How!

Yours in Health & Fitness,
Sherri McMillan

 

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