Sniff those Fats Away
Monday, May 09, 2005
A story on Channel Seven's Today Tonight featured, "What you smell when hungry may affect your appetite and make you stop eating."
I think I see some truth there. If I stand next to someone with an overpowering body odour, I wouldn't be thinking of food would I? But isn't that common sense? So maybe the smell of my pen ink will prevent me from eating that delightfully scrumptious Mars Bars. Or perhaps I should invest in the strongest smelling perfume that I could spray some up my nose in order to skip snacking because I would be too busy convulsing on the floor instead.
Wonder what sort of 'smells' the test subjects were put through. And more importantly, just how much money are we going to get swindled off again?
I admit that I'm vulnerable to infomercials declaring that their products will make you drop those fats like a procrastinator to work. There isn't one commercial that didn't have me fighting an internal battle over whether I should give it a go, because who knows, maybe this will be the real thing after all the previous kooky crappy things. Overtime, I became annoyed whenever I have to resist the temptation to buy.
Diet supplements, fat burning patches/creams/tablets, weird looking exercise machines. What do they all have in common? A promise. It's so unbinding isn't it? Whether or not it will work will depend on your discipline to stick to whatever plan they say you're suppose to. Moreover, we mustn't forget about the teeny weeny lines at some far end corner of the product or screen saying blah blah coupled with regular exercise blah blah blah taken with a sensible diet.
So in the end isn't it the sensible diet and/or the exercise that actually help us lose weight and not those products? Why is it that in our hope for a miracle, we end up throwing our money away every time for the obvious?
The bottom line is that,
Regular exercise (Cardio + Weight Resistance) + Sensible Diet = Shedding Fats
Period.
Back to the revolutionary sniffy sniffs, a lady on television said that she'll have a whiff whenever she sees that nice cake at the window. Yeah sure, might as well ask your friends to lend you their used gym socks. That should work just as well too. So excuse me while I bury my face in unwashed laundry. I feel a chocolate craving coming on. |
