School survival: fatness vs fitness
By: Cookie

Exercise instructor Kurt Dunn demonstrates basic crunches. - File photos

In high school, image is one of the most important things you have to deal with. Teenagers have this thing when or if they are going to like someone, they have to be fit, hot, sexy, and so on.

Nobody seems to want a pot-bellied, obese 'fatty bum bum' (if I may say so myself) to date. Some people tend to eat a lot and the food ends up in certain places you don't want them to.

But it isn't always easy to get to that point. Anyways, let's get to the point.

Let's start with the most obvious. Exercising! Get off the tired and played-out couch, man, for real. Get your verb on. Run, jump, kick, shake, hit, and dive, whatever it takes!

Chrystal Beckford demonstrates how to use an exercise machine.

Dieting, of course, usually helps if you're willing to avoid ice cream, cake, pizza, pork, fries and sodas. Makes you drool, doesn't it? It is usually worth it at the end if you can diet with all the temptation you'll have to deal with.

Starving is really popular nowadays. All the rich and famous American people do it. Why shouldn't you? You want to be hip and down with the latest trends, don't you?

Plastic surgery is getting to be one of the more popular and desperate attempts to lose weight nowadays. It costs some serious dough though, homey, and it apparently doesn't work out for some people (I won't say who).

I hope these bits of so-called advice will help all y'all out dere, a'ight.

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