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5 Reasons Weight Loss Is So Damn Hard To Achieve
No, it has nothing to do with willpower or laziness
Sad, but true that we live in a world, where beautiful means skinny and skinny means beautiful — without considering health, mental health, fitness, strength, happiness or any other factors that should define beauty.
Also sad, and also true that this is nothing new. The concept that beauty means good was also present in ancient times. The ancient Greek term kalokagathia, derived from kalos kagathos, refers to beauty being good, noble and virtuous — with a simplified translation, it means what is beautiful is good. Evolutionarily, beauty and the supposed positives that beauty, symmetry and the right proportions meant suggested health, fertility and thus a better chance to healthy offsprings and survival.
What is also sad is while we live a lot longer and in the developed world we have easy access to personal hygiene, medical services and basic education to take care of our bodies — i.e. to preserve it in its best functioning, healthy state for long decades, we also have easy access to hyper-palatable food, a stressful and accelerated environment coupled with sedentary lifestyles and a huge amount of external pressure to be and look our best no matter the costs.
