By now, we’ve heard just about every fitness craze there is:
- The Grapefruit Diet
- The Atkins Diet
- The Blood Type Diet
- The Ab Toning Belt
- Beyonce’s infamous Master Cleanse
- The Peanut Butter Diet, the Ice Cream Diet, the Chocolate Diet (seriously?!?!)
- Hydroxycut, Ephedrine, and all every other diet pill on store shelves
This is just a handful, but I’m sure this list can easily go into the hundreds if I tried. The diet industry is big business – it is a multi-billion dollar industry, and it’s easy to see why. Most of us are always looking for the next quick fix and who can blame us. Who doesn’t hope to find that magic combination that will melt all your undesirable fat away? Our culture tells us to do things quick, efficiently, and fast. It’s really no wonder we approach dieting and weight loss the exact same way.
The latest craze I’ve been seeing around town these days is the Vibration Toning Plate. It claims that in just 10 minutes time of standing on that vibration plate, you’ll get the equivalent of a 30 minute sweat session at the gym. Oh, and apparently Madonna owns one. Mention easy weight loss and attach a celebrity’s name to it and wa-lah, you’ve got the perfect marketing combination. I’ve even seen this thing sold at Brookstone and sat on it once. All I got was a nice butt massage. Yea that felt good, haha~ Maybe it works, maybe it doesn’t…
But all joking aside, at the end of all this trial and error, your best bet is still good old traditional healthy eating and exercise. Notice I did not use the word “diet”. Diets don’t work – they imply a short term mindset. We must consciously, intentionally choose to alter our lifestyle and make small daily decisions to eat healthier and get our bodies moving. What’s the toughest part about eating right and exercise for you?
