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.
I started this blog because I believe life is not worth living without passion. Life is not always an easy thing to understand, but to me, life is not being wasted if your doing what you love. I am passionate about helping people make their own journey to a healthier and happier life through diet, fitness, and lifestyle changes. Lets share and grow together :) Click on the giant "Kevin Meets World!" to return to the main page.
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Sunday, December 29, 2013
Australian Personal Trainer Debunks Those Infuriating 'Before And After' Weight Loss Pictures
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