I am all for freedom of choice and expression.
But when you say unprovable things. I have the right to call out your unprovable opinions. Especially when society enjoys amplifying your voice to validate their lazy belief’s.
Vidya Balan hired an organisation from my hometown to help her drop a lot of weight.
This organisation loves using inflammation as a bogeyman to starve people to lose weight and improve a few blood markers. For those not in the know, in preventive healthcare inflammation is the refuge of the charlatan looking for vague reasons to get clients to do drastic, unsustainable things. And we know how much people lap up that kind of nonsense.
As for no exercise, I have no clue where muscle is supposed to emerge from when you produce no force or resistance.
And why would your bones remain healthy and calcium laden, if you don’t give them any dose of activity or loading?
In my experience, the people who have walked in after this ‘program’ are skinny fat. Essentially they rank well on the BMI scale. But they carry very little muscle mass and have done their bone health no favours with very low calorie intake coupled with the no exercise approach. Their cardiovascular capacity leaves a lot to be desired too.
Eating too little to drop bodyweight is not the same as eating sensibly to improve body composition and quality of life.
I get that the actress in question has had a terrible time with the media and general public scrutinising her body and weight. Shame on those groups.
And media and films have done more damage to the women’s (society too) perception of strength training, healthy eating and what it means to be healthy.
The media and films take a flavour of the season approach to exercise, money shot approach to fitness and reinforce counterproductive stereotypes of desirability. All combined have laid down the worst possible incentives for people to train and eat better.
Given Vidya Balan’s respected image as a thespian and how her opinions and habits influence the public, I am really rooting for her to find a dose of activity that can keep her healthy and that she actually enjoys.
Lord knows that’s the hero we need but maybe not the one we deserve at the moment.
