Clark Howard's Tips
January 14, 2008
A recent poll in Fitness magazine revealed that 1 in 4 people would rather spend a week in jail, shave their heads or wear a bikini on TV than weigh an extra 50 pounds. One in 5 would actually give up 10 years of their life to not have the additional girth. But that's nothing compared to this next stat: Nine in 10 people said they'd take an extra toe rather than the extra weight!
Around 75 percent of women currently are on (or have recently been on) a diet. Meanwhile, more than half of all women admit to having sat down and eaten a whole box of cookies or other junk food. Talk about true confessions!
Body image is such a difficult issue. On one hand, you have someone like actress Keira Knightley who has been photographed looking skeletal. On the other hand, you have people like musician/actress Queen Latifah. The Queen has a curvaceous body image and is proud of it.
As we all know, there's no magic pill for weight loss. It has to happen through developing lifetime habits of watching what you eat and exercising.
Clark himself is caught somewhere in the middle of it all. He admittedly has terrible eating habits, but he's also an exercise maniac.
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