The new trend of the moment? The Cinderella weight formula that is driving social media crazy : a formula found on the web for which you calculate your height squared and then multiply it by the number eighteen. You will come up with a number, which should be your ideal weight to be like Cinderella , but which, in reality, is nothing more than a silly game showing the weight you would have with a BMI of 18, hence the weight. that you should have if you were underweight.
Let’s just make two considerations on how stupid this trend is.

1) Weight does not equal thinness:similar games continue to revive the common opinion that if the scale goes down it means we are thin, if it goes up it means we are fat. Unfortunately, things are not that simple and only kids can think they are . In fact, the fat mass weighs little, with the same volume as the lean one, because it retains less water. This has led to the paradox of “false lean” that is, those people with a low or normal weight and body mass index, but who still have a worrying percentage of body fat, because it is greater than what it should be for their weight or located in points considered dangerous to health.

Moral of the story:you can also have the weight of Cinderella and still have an unhealthy body fat percentage, ie being a “fake skinny” ( source ). As long as people continue to relate their weight to the number on the scales, they will show that they do not know how to care about their body composition, and therefore about their health. From this first point, other points are consequently born, let’s say corollaries, for which people go to the gym but give up when they see the balance needle go up. Or so the diet is always considered and chosen about how much weight you lose, not how better you are.

2) It is estimated that none of the actresses who did Cinderella on TV had the weight that came out of the test . And thanks to the fife, I would say. Only a cartoon or comic woman, or a Barbie, can have a waist that looks like the result of two fewer ribs. Not even a naturally very thin person has the shape of a cartoon, think about it.

The test taker effect is slyly intended to create frustration , but in reference to a simple number, and to a wrong number. With the persuasive comparison of the Disney princess why, hey, who is it that today doesn’t want to feel like a little princess? Who is it that she doesn’t want to reduce her body to a number?
The spread of these trends only pushes women to adopt extreme diets to arrive at an ideal, which is such only in their heads . With the risk of ruining their life and health, but feeling good if they can.
The next step would be to take the test, discover that to be Cinderella we should have ten kilos less, and ask ourselves: who is the idiot who can think of reaching an aesthetic and physical ideal thanks to an internet game? To then answer, and I hope so: not me.