I WANT A BODY LIKE BRITNEY SPEARS

“I want a body like Britney” were the words uttered to me recently by a client. “How do I get it” she asked.

As soon as I began my reply I could tell by the crestfallen look in her eyes that it wasn’t the answer she was looking for. For a start, I said she’d have to stop overestimating the amount of exercise she was doing and stop underestimating the amount of calories she was eating.

Needless to say she was slightly taken aback by the news.

Her surprise was amplified further when I explained that she’d also need to spend hours in hair and make-up and hire a photographer with the most excellent camera and lighting equipment. Oh and also hire someone with excellent photo-shop skills too!

Now I know you’re thinking that I am as evil as Nick Cotton and Cindy Beale's lovechild but let me assure you I am not, unlike your average Estate Agent I was just being honest.

In a way I was like Simon Cowell giving his critique of a particularly bad audition - I was being cruel to be kind.

I didn’t want her going on believing that she was going to one day have a body like Britney Spears. Not because SHE couldn’t, but because NO-ONE can.

The images we see of celebrities whom many of us regard as the epitome of perfection have been doctored and photo-shopped beyond belief.

Don't believe me? Take a look at this clip from youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdbnl7NZ-ok 

 

 

Hell, these photos are almost as false as half the people working in the fashion industry!

Now if weight-loss is your goal I’m not saying that you shouldn’t be inspired by the figures of certain celebrities and models, heck many of them work extremely hard to have the figures they do. It’s just that they are helped massively by the cameras, the lights, the poses they adopt and the skill and diligence of talented ‘photo-shoppers’ to give them the figure which they appear to have.

And in a strange way us mere mortals should find some comfort in this because celebrities have access to personal trainers, beauticians, and nutritionists around the clock and almost certainly have less day to day stress in their lives than your average women, yet they still have to rely on trickery to make them look so good!

So should we give up on trying to look ‘perfect’?

We shouldn’t stop trying to look our best it’s just that we should perhaps change our idea of what perfect is. For women perfect isn’t a really big bust, narrow hips and a tiny bum with 0% body fat – that is simply unattainable, unless of course you have the help of a skilled surgeon.

No, perfect should be an individual thing and perhaps the real ‘perfect’ is when you can accept that nothing with your body (just like your life) will ever truly be perfect! Perhaps to some degree match.com put it best with their strapline ‘love your imperfections’. Or John Legend when he sang about loving 'your curves and all your edges, all your perfect imperfections. Anyway, I digress but I think you get what I'm trying to get at.

 

 

So get out there and train hard, and go and improve your eating habits and be excited by the feelings and benefits that this will bring…just don’t be thinking that that is all you need to make you look like a model on the front cover of your favourite magazine!

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Thanks for reading,

Matt

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