Price Of Beauty, Cost Your Health

I don't understand why some people want to go on crash diets just to look slim for photos, especially their wedding photos. I understand you want to look your best, but is starving yourself just to look good for that few days worth it when you end up ballooning the rest of your life after? If every wife-to-be wrote down their thoughts and plans to work to before their wedding day, most of them would have the entry:

Lose XXkg by wedding photo session

Lose another XXkg before wedding day

The worst part of all this is the fact that the people who do this are walking lollipops with imaginary blubber that's on a non-existent butt or the ever-dreaded TUMMY. (*dang dang dang*)

The whole point - Why make it all a lie? You basically start your new life (with your partner) on a lie with the image you portray. Would you actually stay that size and shape?

If it's a yes -
Why didn't you stay that size and shape before?
If it's a no -
Why bother in the first place?

Is losing that little bit of weight actually going to make you look more beautiful than you are now? What makes the girl look good is the tons of make-up, hair styling, special clothes and the great invention of air-brushing. Have you actually ever seen a girl who has bad acne show any signs of it in her wedding photo?

The other part I don't get is why some want to stifle your body's craving when you actually don't have to restrict your diet. Here I am on a really restricted one, and I think it's giving me more stress than the thought that I could end up an invalid in the future. Having to go around reading food labels so that I know the crap that's in it gets me irritated but I'd have to do it or face bloody consequences. Worst of all is having to find food, when I'm out, that would fit into the restrictions. The whole stress from that is actually killing me softly.

This then makes me wonder how some people can count the calories they take and restrict their diet when there isn't a real need to. Why can't you just enjoy what you can? I'm not saying that you should eat a ton of everything but just simply not think about numbers and enjoy what has been placed on your dinner plate. Eventually what you may think is beautiful turns out to be the "unwrapped mummified skeleton" look, which in turn is actually showing how dead you truly are on the inside.

In the end, is it actually all worth it? Trying to look your slimmest on your wedding day while you look like a balloon after? Sucking in your stomach and starving the whole day when cameras are clicking away? Looking like a walking skeleton, calculating the amount of bird seeds you can eat for the day? Controlling your diet when you eventually might get cancer or lose a kidney?

Life is too bloody short and I find it dumb to go through all that crap to just SEEM beautiful on just one day. If the person you're going to marry cares more for how you look on the outside than the person under that external shell, then it really isn't worth the hassle.

Wake Up & Smell The Bullshit