Australian Personal Trainer Debunks Those Infuriating 'Before And After' Weight Loss Pictures

Today is one of those rainy Sundays where most of us find ourselves staying and and keeping warm, at least this is what it is like in Vancouver, BC lol.  Bored of the same old things, I choice to read articles on the internet to pass the time.  As luck would have it, I came across this great blog by an Austalian personal trainer, named Mel.     

So fed up with misleading “Before and After” pictures used to sell fitness programs and diet pills, Mel
decided to make her own transformation in under 15 minutes (via Gawker).

All it took was better posture, some fake tanning lotion, and black bathing suit bottoms:

“Check out my transformation! It took me 15 minutes,” Mel wrote to her followers on Instagram.
“Wanna know my secret? Well firstly I ditched the phonewallet (fwallet) cause that **** is lame, swapped my bather bottoms to black (cause they’re a size bigger and black is slimming), smothered on some fake tan, clipped in my hair extensions, stood up a bit taller, sucked in my guts, popped my hip, threw in a skinny arm, stood a bit wider #boxgap, pulled my shoulders back and added a bit of a cheeky/I’m so proud of my results smile. Zoomed in on the before pic, zoomed out on the after and added a filter. Cause filters make everything awesome.”

She would later  follow up on this idea with a blog post on how misleading transformation pictures can be, and the dangers of having unrealistic expectations for quick results.

“What a before and after shot doesn’t tell you how the person achieved it,” she writes. “It doesn’t tell you if they did it a healthy way or if they starved themselves for weeks on end to get there.”

“It also doesn’t show you the persons mental state, their self worth, how [many] hours of exercise they did, the lifestyle they live, the early mornings, how they handled social situations or how many skinny mini teas they chugged, [etc.]”

 Check out her full blog post here.

Good news -> I am back

So it's been awhile since my last post.  Where have I been, you ask.  The answer, traveling around Europe for a month (longest I have ever travelled). I have now been back for a little over a month and let me tell you, it's been a struggle to adapt back to normal life.  To paint you a picture, imagine me, jet-lagged as shit, arriving back at richmond airport (in the great Vancouver, BC) just as the staff were setting up the Christmas decorations. I am back!  I am speaking to none other than Christmas, that jolly jolly chaotic mess near the end of the year. And as we all know, it happens every December 25th. So, ready or not... Go.  Fuck!

But I digress, Christmas is over. And like always, I survived.  It was a blast while it was here but it's time to move back on with life.  Back to where I left off, I am grad to say that I am moving full swing again.  Daily routines are returning and feeling familiar again (thank god lol).  Cleaning up after myself still needs some fine tuning, but it's getting easier each day - I am living with the fact that I forgot to pack my stewards with me back home lol.

So the good news from here is you all will be hearing a whole bunch more from me in the new year.  Till then!