Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels
Most people can’t wait for the hot summer months to come, but for others, the long steamy days are a cause for distress: Are you ready to reveal your beach body?
Spring always brings forth a wave of new diets and women’s magazines are full of get-slim-quick-tips. When struck by the diet fever, many of us, especially young women, are so desperate to lose a few dress sizes as quickly as possible that they are willing to try anything.
Sticking to a diet in the summer season is made twice as difficult by all the barbeques, beach parties, ice cream and endless glasses of sangria. When on holidays, people tend to drink more, and alcohol is infamous for hidden calories.
The experts are unimpressed with crash diets. Studies have proven that a healthy diet combined with exercise really is the safest and most effective way to lose weight and keep the weight off long after the diet is over. Even though everybody knows this to be true, sometimes the pressure to fit in that size 8 summer dress as soon as the sun comes out, is too much to handle, resulting in the most gruelling diet plans. 'I don't mind the health risks' ALN asked members of the Fitness First gym on Seven Sisters Road if they feel pressure to get slim quick. Bar worker Rebecca, 22, is trying to combine gym exercise with healthy eating: “I have tried crash diets before, but after a few days I always give up. I actually even considered these pills I saw on a website. I’m going on holiday next month and really want to lose some weight as quickly as possible, I don’t mind the health risks.” As a child Rebecca used to love the summer months, but now finds it a struggle to look forward to the season. “I want it to be hot, but I wish I had more time to diet. I can’t go on the beach like this. I want to be happy about myself but I don’t want to give up drinking and eating ice cream.” John, 24, a construction worker , goes to the gym every week. “I keep quite fit because of my job but if I ever got fat, I would consider a quick diet - I don’t think I could stick to a long term plan.” Not for everyone Some UAL students are looking forward to the summer and don’t want to ruin it by dieting (and these girls don’t need to, either). Hannah, 20, who studies BA Surface Design, doesn’t feel the need to diet. Although she has heard of crash diets, she would not consider them. “I love my food too much”, she laughs. Film and television student, Jasmin, 20, knows about crash diets but hasn’t tried them. “I’ve tried dieting but never according to any known plan.” The combined diet knowledge of the people interviewed is astonishing. They have tried different diets and know multiple others they haven’t tested. Even the men knew about the “spit-andchew- diet” as well as the diet aid pill, Alli. And none of the people interviewed are fat, not by the slightest margin. With size zero models and dieting ads all over – is society pushing the standard for attractiveness too far? Instead of looking forward to the summer people get stressed trying to achieve a figure which is often so skinny it is unhealthy.
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