When I saw the title: “Punishment and humiliation secret to weight loss, says Yeltsin’s daughter”, my heart skipped a beat. I believe that overweight people suffer enough as it is, whether we like to admit it or not. That’s why I don’t watch shows like the Biggest Loser or that reality show More to Love where the overweight guy was looking for a girlfriend and all the ladies were overweight. I am sorry but love should not be associated with a weight on the scale. Everybody deserves to be loved at 100 lbs or 350 lbs. But as I am reading the article a grin was developing on my face.
Come to find out that Tatiana Yumasheva (Boris Yeltsin’s daughter) and a group of friends who wanted to lose weight decided on how to punish each other if they didn’t succeed in losing the weight by a certain date. The punishments were actually funny: “one man who had recently bought a BMW would have to sell it, buy a cheap Russian car, paint it pink with flowers and drive it for six months. A woman with two university degrees who spoke several languages would have to give up her cushy position and become a secretary. Yumasheva thinks her punishment would have been the worst if she didn’t lose 22 pounds: to wear floor-length evening dresses to work and speak only English, a language she was struggling with at the time.”
How they lost the weight was not discussed in the article and they continued keeping track of their weight after the deadline. The good thing is that they all lost their extra weight. The moral of the story is that you can lose the weight with a good support group and afterwards you still need to maintain it. The sad story is that for many people doing it for health reasons is not enough of a motivation and it’s a difficult concept for a health professional to accept.
So again; do it for the right reason, have a support system and have fun with it. Life was never meant to be a struggle.
Peace and Love
- Josée
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