Weight Loss

In the mornings, I usually buy a newspaper to catch up on whats going on in Malaysia today. It's always good to know whats happening in case I need to pack up and leave. Hahaha!

Usually the paper is full of adds which I dutifully read, and usually there are adds from the Weight loss specialists such as Marie France, MayFair, Terrime. Slim World to name a few.

I have worked in the Beauty Industry for many years and at some point during my career I have worked in a few slimming centres. I have seen over weight women, and women who think they are fat plonk down thousands of dollars to lose weight.

When the slimming salon sensation became popular in Malaysia back in the late eighties and early nineties women were willing to fork out thousands to lose weight. I had a friend who worked as a consultant for Marie France for 16 years and her sales target every month was RM200,000.00. Now that's individual sales, not group sales. She told me they would do anything to get these woman to sign up for a course. Every month she was stressed, so stressed that her hair started falling out. She was one of their number one sales people and one month had a pay check for around 18,000.00. That pay check is based mostly on commissions as the basic pay in these places is extremely low, so you can imagine the pressure on the consultant not to mention the dupe who walked into your salon just to inquire. If they didn't sign you that day, they would call and hound you until you did. Once you decided to sign up and said you had to go to your ATM to withdraw money, said consultant would follow you to the ATM to make sure you came back. The problem is, once you forked out RM40,000.00 for treatments most woman did not lose weight, yet time and again they would resign until reality hit them in the face like a stinking fish.

Now a days slimming treatments have become cheaper because of competition. The low prices I see in the newspaper are not really as cheap as they seem. As I mentioned I have worked in slimming salons so I know why they can seem to offer such low prices, but that's beside the point. The point I'm trying to make is that most of the time slimming treatments do not work.

In our society now, woman have no time to exercise or eat healthy and so they want to rely on slimming treatments. They want to believe. Now I ask you do you think you can lose weight by going for your treatment twice a week and still carry on eating your high calorie food and not exercising??? Slimming salons are now becoming smarter wherein they will advise you on food intake and ask you to exercise just to cover their asses when a client comes in and complains they have not lost weight. I have faced many clients, trying to explain to them why they are not losing the pounds. Its not a pretty sight and who can blame them. They think because they paid you all that money the weight should just drop off.

Wake up call ladies, if you want to lose weight and you have no under lying medical condition that causes you to gain weight, the best way to lose is to cut down on those calories and try to get some exercise. Also a good detox twice a month will help to clean out your sluggish system. Another thing don't lie to yourself that you are cutting down on calories because at the end of the day, you may be able to lie to friends and family, but ultimately you can't lie to yourself.