Are You Too Fat To Get A Good Job?

By Author: Mary Shawe
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We dwell in a image conscious society where style can be more important than what you can do. We spend more than ever on image maintenance and snappy dressing to make the right impression at work and impress the boss. But what if you're not the perfect size six? The reality is that we're larger than ever. If how you look is so important, then could your weight affect your career development?

Studies show that weight discrimination is common at work. A recent survey in a professional HR personnel magazine revealed that ninety-three per cent of HR professionals would give the vacancy to the thinner person when deciding between two otherwise equal candidates and the evidence suggests that dress size discrimination counts more against females.

Claire White is now a size six lawyer but when working in an office some time ago and weighing 280 pounds, she was aware that she was being consistently sidelined. She found that being appointed to a job was inevitably a nightmare. Her resume would be attractive and professional, she would arrive at the interview very well prepared and would finish up humiliated by the employer's ...
... immediate look of disappointment at her size.

Big people often develop a larger than life personality to compensate, and she was like that - always butt of office humor but hurting inside. There were the practical jokes, and comments like at least SHE won't have an affair unless its with the cookie jar. She did everything that she could to overcome the prejudice that fat people are idle and do not take care with their appearance. She would get up two hours early to paint her nails but this didn't make any difference because all her colleagues saw was this very fat woman.

It's true to say thatthere are some women who don't fit into these rules, everybody is stereotyped in one way or another. If you are fat there is the negative stereotype of weak and lazy loser, but there can be a positive stereotype, that you are a life-loving, big-hearted individual - all useful characteristics in some businesses.

However, if you don't want to encounter negative perceptions due to your dress size you will have to face the task of dieting. There are many programs, but one of the most successful I have found is Dr Siegal's Cookie diet, which has worked for five hundred thousand people all over the world.

Eat cookies, lose weight! Chocolate, Blueberry, Oatmeal Raisin, Banana & Coconut www.CookieDietOnline.com Being on a diet doesn't mean you can't eat tasty, in fact if you only eat boring food, you're more likely to give up.

Imagine, like our example above - when yourkids come out of school, they won't feel embarassed by the blob waiting for them outside the gate, but will feel proud of their lively and slim Mom!