9 easy steps to a flat tummy ...

[SteelWeaver]

The headline inthe lifestyles insert of the paper yesterday.

My question: When will the f**king media stop telling people that getting and then maintaining a flat tummy is easy. On the contrary, it is HARD, very very very HARD, requiring planning, knowledge, discipline, hard and smart work, endless patience and an ability to see beyond the moment.

This type of crap pisses me off. People then think that because they don't have a flat tummy there is something very wrong with them, since if it's so easy, why don't they have it? Talk about opiates for the fucking masses - give 'em all a guilt and inferiority complex so huge they'll never squeak when an important opinion might be required.

Oh yah, sure they mentioned exercise ... gentle walking or swimming. And more intense cardio to "flush out the water that is retained by the body under the skin". And ab exercise to tone - no mention of course of the MONTHS of HARD dieting they have to do to be able to SEE the nice toned abs!

Veggie juices. Fibre.

Nothing real.

Fools.






(My rant for today)

 

[newgirl-chargeback]

GOOD FOR YOU, Steel and very well said. And yes, the message that one is unworthy if you cannot achieve a super flat stomach since it is so easy...is very apparent.

All it takes, really is reading all of these articles....no exercise and no dieting required. And cardio is the answer to everything! Good lord, I look like Monica Brant just from reading all the nonsense. Poof and I am fit.

Blech -- and we wonder why people suffer from body image problems...

 

[TEXgrl]

damn, i clicked on this thread because i thought you had the secret

 

[Citruscide]

So, you are saying you disapprove of these types of articles?

C-ditty

 

[The Shadow]

Getting a flat stomach is not that complicated...

Burn more than you take in - and work the muscles - pretty simple.


bah - never mind

 

[newgirl-chargeback]

Were you the one that published the article?

 

[Millie]

i was quite surprized the other day when i was reading the paper on my way to work. in the lifestyle section there was an article which was a review of a new book on fitness. the book was basically about how people could get fit by doing only 30 minutes of strength exercises a week and i was pleasantly surprised that the article was bashing the book and saying that it was complete nonsense and it was another one of the stupid gimmicks promising people great bodies with very little effort

 

[MS]

Damn, I also thought Steel had cracked the secrets to a flat stomach

Agree with Cornholio though. Now if only it were that easy to get lean thighs and butt, THEN I'd be a happy woman.

Of course, I've seen women with a 'flat' stomach that had no visible abs.....

 

[The Shadow]

Damn, I also thought Steel had cracked the secrets to a flat stomach

Agree with Cornholio though. Now if only it were that easy to get lean thighs and butt, THEN I'd be a happy woman.

Of course, I've seen women with a 'flat' stomach that had no visible abs.....

Exactly...thats why I said "flat tummy"....not ripped midsection.....

 

[valerie]

OK Steele you got me with the tittle. please oh please tell me how to get that flat tummy.

But hey I was wondering : do short waisted women have a harder time getting that "flat, toned tummy"?

I ask cause I am one short waisted woman. The only place I really carry much fat is right below my belly button. Being short waisted I surmised means having less space to spread the fat across-What cha think????????

valerie