When I was around 20-21 years old, I remember thinking that I needed to lose weight. Granted, I didn’t ‘really’ need to lose weight, but somewhere I’d gotten this idea planted in my head. Back in the day- I didn’t think or know anything about ‘healthy eating’, so my solution was to take ephedra diet pills. Not only did it give me energy, it made me not even want to consider eating. Needless to say- I lost weight (even though I was already a size 8).
Here I am 20+ years later and several sizes larger than an 8 and learned that the best way to get where you want to go is to do the work, not by taking shortcuts. That can be said with diet and exercise, but also pretty much with everything else in life.
Not eating may give superficial ego enhancing gains, but at what cost? We are designed to eat because the fuel is what our body and mind needs to live, to sleep, to function and repair itself. Short term gains early in life can some back to bite one as we age – health wise. When young we rarely stop to think of consequences.
Comment by Maggie — February 19, 2011 @ 6:01 pm