Which people do not dream of perfection? Perhaps, perhaps, units. Most want a perfect home, the best car, a perfect mate. We also do not forget about ourselves - many want a perfect body.
If everything is clear with the first paragraphs - you just have to look at an advertisement or look into a glossy magazine, then as far as the body is concerned, do not rush to follow the advice of fashion publications. Let's try to figure out if there is such an example to follow, which can be called ideal, and whether to strive for it.
What is he ideal?
Imagine that you have a time machine, and you can wander through the past, observing people and traditions peculiar to one or another century.
Would you be curious to know how our ancestors lived before, what did they strive for? Probably yes. And what would amaze you is that fashion has always existed, regardless of the availability of magazines and catwalks. So, from the time before our era to the present moment, it is she who dictates and imposes ideals. Who creates fashion? This is not one person. It can be time, habit, living conditions or global corporations, as is happening, for example, today.
How do ideas about beauty change
Look at the statues created during the dawn of the Roman Empire or Ancient Greece. Men are beautiful, but girls seem to many to be excessively feminine, with rounded stomachs and full hips. What about the paintings of Rubens or Kustodiev?
Ladies who arrogantly look at viewers from paintings, surprise our contemporaries with magnificent forms and make us wonder: "Was it considered beautiful?" There were times, centuries, when people believed that an ideal body is complete, without a tan, with aristocratic pallor. After all, if a person is full, then he eats well and does not have health problems. Today, the opinion of the ideal figure is diametrically opposite.
What is the idea of excellence today?
Open any magazine, turn on the video clip or movie. The ideal body of a man appears as a fat-free pile of muscles, best of all hairless and tanned. Ideal men are not very similar to those we see on the streets. But we do not believe that in this situation, something is wrong. On the contrary, we blame the ordinary man for laziness and unwillingness to become a “cover guy”.
What does a perfect female body look like? This is the angel who represents the perfume from Victoria Secret. If for some reason you don’t know what such a girl looks like, then we’ll clarify that this is a tall, slender beauty with cubes on her stomach, big breasts and long legs that are well-legged. An ordinary girl from the street most often looks completely different, but it is she who is to blame for her “imperfection”, and not the advertising and the propaganda image of the “ideal”.
Should I strive for the ideal?
A person must strive for something, because in this the meaning of life is to achieve something, improving. But it should be your desires and ideals, and not the images slipped to you in a beautiful cover.
Do you want a Mercedes? Do you need it, an expensive car under a well-known brand, or are you just a vehicle, many times cheaper, that will move you around the city? Perhaps you need a bicycle, but the fashion tells you to buy an expensive car for fabulous money. Or, for example, clothes. Do you need Dolce Gabanna branded jeans for hundreds of dollars? Or are regular trousers made of the same fabric, but without a name label, quite suitable?
With a figure, things are the same. An ideal body is a myth, a fictional image that makes millions spend money on fitness rooms, beautiful miniature-sized clothes, special supplements, or special, “right” foods. There is never and never was a perfect figure to be worth following or imitating.
What figure can be taken as a sample?
Why can not be considered a model of an ideal body, a photo of which can be seen on each page of journal publications? Why not, you are free to choose. However, there is something that is natural and more easily achievable, and there is a picture that is very far from reality.
Take for example the perfect body of a man. What do modern young people do in life? Yes, what only they do not do! IT specialists, lawyers, managers, builders, sellers .. To match the type of the film “300 Spartans” or “Troy”, a man must not crawl out of the gym (or participate in ongoing wars using cold steel and wearing chain mail, as the ancients did) Greeks), eat sports supplements, and even better use hormone-containing steroids. Do six dice stand on the stomach and the muscular legs of such victims? Can an ordinary young man work in the office during the day, and in the evening run to the gym in order to be a “cover guy”? Unlikely. Therefore, this example is unnatural. To be beautiful and have a measure of athletic body, a man should visit the gym, but without fanaticism. You should also eat right, but do not zeal in taking sports supplements, so as not to harm your health.
Become a dream woman
What does the perfect woman look like ? Today it is a living Barbie doll. But each girl knows what a chiseled waist and extremely low weight are worth - an almost complete rejection of delicious in favor of vegetables and physical activity. And then all your efforts will be wasted if you were born of short stature or with short legs. So is it worth chasing something ephemeral? Is it worth it to control each calorie, to grow hair and nails, to increase lips and chest just to match the picture?
Everyone chooses their own answer, but it is best to lead a healthy lifestyle, feel good and feel beautiful. Of course, if you are very much unhappy with something in yourself, that is, cosmetics and surgeons, but it is unlikely that nature would create an imperfect creation. Each person is beautiful, having his own characteristics and characteristics from birth to him traits and parameters, and everyone can become happy without changing anything in himself.
Ideal body weight
Another of the greatest deceptions on the planet is the fiction that there is some ideal weight. Someone, considering himself wise and knowledgeable, decided that he is able for every person on Earth, without seeing him, to calculate the ideal weight. And now the mechanism is started - a book is being written, another diet is being created, a school of an ideal body is opening. Do you need it to be happy? Believe me, no! At the natural level, you are endowed with such vast wisdom that a whole army of scientists is simply powerless. No one is able to calculate your ideal weight, and therefore it is better not to pay attention to advertising and promises. The ideal body school will not bring you to perfection, because it simply does not exist.
At the same time, you can independently and completely free of charge engage in your favorite sport or just lead an active lifestyle, eat healthy and tasty food and be very attractive at the same time.
How to become perfection, even for yourself?
When you discard the stereotypes and patterns of ideal imposed on you, you will understand that you still want to be perfect, but it will be your desire, and not what came from outside. So, are there any rules, following which you can become a happy owner of the perfect look? In fact, there are no rules, but there are some principles, following which, you will easily keep yourself in shape:
1. Try not to eat three hours before bedtime.
2. Your daily dinner should consist of protein. An example of an ideal evening meal is an omelet, a portion of cottage cheese with sour cream, boiled chicken breast. Of course, you can also have dinner with something else, a slice of pizza or chocolate bar for example, but you won’t get enough and then eat something else after it.
3. Do I need to count calories? After all, most diets are tied to them. This is boring enough. It’s best to just learn how to eat healthy food and not engage in mental calculations. Proper and healthy foods are lean meats, poultry, fish, eggs, cottage cheese, and vegetables. Eating food prepared from these components, you will not feel hunger and will not get better.
4. Sweet is one of the most painful issues. If you love sweets and are not able to live without them, then, of course, you will not be able to find a dream figure. It is chocolate, pastries, and sweets that are empty energy that turns into fat on the sides and stomach. Fruits are a good alternative to confectionery, but they should not be abused. Let two or three fruits per day become the norm for you.
4. Sports. Do not think that it is boring! It is not necessary to go to the gym, because maintaining an active lifestyle can be compared with classes on simulators. What do you like - cycling or rollerblading, leisurely walks, swimming? Do what you like and be beautiful.
And finally
In this article, you did not see the numbers and parameters characterizing the ideal body. If you need accuracy, then the modern world will gladly provide you with the “right” combinations, but do you need them? Those who write diets and books are not personally acquainted with you. They don’t know anything about you, so how can you know how you will look perfect?
Remember that nature does not tolerate imperfections and does not make mistakes. But people often sin by this. Eat correctly, lead an active and active life, and words like “diet” will be forgotten by themselves.