Anonymous wrote:Try something called intermittent fasting. I used last year to lose 40 pounds while also running and lifting weights.
Read up on it before you completely dismiss it - a lot of recent studies.

I just read the WIki entry. It does seem like there is some favorable research behind it. It makes sense that we're "wired" to eat intermittently, as one researcher said. Can't imagine the cavemen eating 6 small meals a day, every day.

Try something called intermittent fasting. I used last year to lose 40 pounds while also running and lifting weights.
Read up on it before you completely dismiss it - a lot of recent studies.

Anonymous wrote:Speaking of athleticism....ever seen the catalog for Athleta? How the hell do THEY stay looking so good? Is it because they are young? Are they working out a ton?

They always look like they are doing the work-outs so effortlessly...and they're so fresh-faced, throwing their gym bag over their shoulder as if just coming from a workout, but looking so happy and beautiful and sweat-free...

The falseness presented as reality by magazines really mess with one's mind.

You are talking about professional fitness models. Now, these gals, actually do spend a full day shift at the gym, like 8 hours a day. That's all they do, that's how they make a living, pimping out their over-exercised bodies to the advertisements for crappy exercise equipment that is supposed to give miracle results in just 15 min a day I actually saw a show on this, it is like a full time job and this is pretty much all these ladies do for a living. The difference between them and some personal trainers if that fitness models also happen to be naturally good looking and have good figure proportions.

I can see myself on a magazine cover if I had:

no need to work for a living in a sedentary, ass-expanding, boring, and snack friendly office job with unattractive poorly dressed people.
24-7 nanny(s) to hand the kids over to, whenever I need time to exercise and eat right and to make sure I get a good night sleep.
a personal chef to cook tasty and healthy meals and do groceries
an assistant to wait on me and bring me these tasty healthy meals whenever I need them, to always feel energetic and never overeat.
a personal trainer, who is always there pushing me and comes up with fun creative ways to exercise.
unlimited access to a nice experienced derm to provide the latest and greatest laser treatments and peels to make my skin look always young and perfect and this applies to my entire body.
a massage therapist to make sure I don't feel too sore to avoid exercising and to break down that cellulite, give me an instant face lift and just make sure I don't feel stressed and reach for a snack
an experienced plastic surgeon, who will keep his mouth shut, and who can make a few adjustments not noticeable to the naked eye, when all else fails.
a hairdresser, stylist and a makeup artist to make me camera ready.
an experienced photographer who can capture my best angles and make the most flattering shots
a photoshop artist, in case a few little things need correction.

Right now, I see myself confidently sharing the page of a national enquirer or other celebrity-shame-pic issues. I definitely will fit in with all the celebrities cellulite ridden bottoms and their poorly fitting bikinis.

Anonymous wrote:photoshop plays a HUGE role in what you see in magazines:
http://www.chilloutpoint.com/misc/celebrities-before-and-after-photoshop.html
but yes, I agree with everyone. It is their job to look amazing and can pay for whatever it takes to achieve. It is not only the "magic genes", trainer and chef, but the stylist, the makeup artist, the tailor, the assistant, the dermatologist, dentist, plastic surgeon.....

This is crazy. I mean, I know airbrushing and photoshopping happens, but you forget what it really does. You forget how normal people really are and the magazines essentially make them realistic cartoons. The pic of Madonna is crazy. She looks like a crazy old shriveled up bat playing dress up in the pre touched up pic.

Cocaine

^messes

Speaking of athleticism....ever seen the catalog for Athleta? How the hell do THEY stay looking so good? Is it because they are young? Are they working out a ton?

They always look like they are doing the work-outs so effortlessly...and they're so fresh-faced, throwing their gym bag over their shoulder as if just coming from a workout, but looking so happy and beautiful and sweat-free...

The falseness presented as reality by magazines really mess with one's mind.

Anonymous wrote:Not in my DNA either and I do work out several hours a day. Ran 7 marathons in under 3:45.

I am avg. looking weight wise. My anorexic friend where's lululemon all over town and hasnt worked out a day in her life (she jokes about rarely eating) and people that run into us together assume she's the athlete(though I could run circles around her after I bench-pressed her).

I am more thickly muscular.

'wears' not 'where's'

Not in my DNA either and I do work out several hours a day. Ran 7 marathons in under 3:45.

I am avg. looking weight wise. My anorexic friend where's lululemon all over town and hasnt worked out a day in her life (she jokes about rarely eating) and people that run into us together assume she's the athlete(though I could run circles around her after I bench-pressed her).

I am more thickly muscular.

Anonymous wrote:I ran 5 miles and lifted weights yesterday (typical day for me) but only had a bowl of raisin bran at7am since there was nothing in the house for lunch. At 4pm at the park with the kids I was soooo f'in tired. I didn't have the energy to play with them. I thought I was chronically ill until I remembered I hadnt eaten.

I could not function at all by starving myself. I see why they need speed.

Sounds like you functioned pretty well while starving yourself. I certainly can't "forget" to eat like that.

Anonymous wrote:I ran 5 miles and lifted weights yesterday (typical day for me) but only had a bowl of raisin bran at7am since there was nothing in the house for lunch. At 4pm at the park with the kids I was soooo f'in tired. I didn't have the energy to play with them. I thought I was chronically ill until I remembered I hadnt eaten.

I could not function at all by starving myself. I see why they need speed.

Hell, I can't even walk for 5 miles.

I ran 5 miles and lifted weights yesterday (typical day for me) but only had a bowl of raisin bran at7am since there was nothing in the house for lunch. At 4pm at the park with the kids I was soooo f'in tired. I didn't have the energy to play with them. I thought I was chronically ill until I remembered I hadnt eaten.

I could not function at all by starving myself. I see why they need speed.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Janet Jackson told Piers Morgan in a fairly recent interview that she's heard stories of celebrities eating tissue paper to make them feel full. And we wonder why celebrity kids grow up to be crazy.

does that work? I think tissue paper would be empty calories I mean silverfish eat that.

ummm. fiber.

ok, yuk, I better go back to reading that "doughnut in the purse" thread, sounds more appetizing.

Anonymous wrote:Janet Jackson told Piers Morgan in a fairly recent interview that she's heard stories of celebrities eating tissue paper to make them feel full. And we wonder why celebrity kids grow up to be crazy.

does that work? I think tissue paper would be empty calories I mean silverfish eat that.