If you want to combat a problem, you have to analyze, evaluate and mount a strategy, set a time line for progress evaluation and a deadline for completion,right? However, if you are mounting a campaign against fat, you must be vigilant,increasing your knowledge base,introducing delicious ways to incorporate new foods into your diet.There is no deadline for completion when it comes to eating for health,strength and wellness.Eating healthier is a strategy that has to be mounted each and every single day, systematically and consistently adding to your arsenal of weapons.
Learn not to shoot yourself in the foot!Don't harbor greasy gooey syrupy sugary sweet junk in your home! Just say no and don't let your kids watch Saturday morning TV while you sleep in! The money you save on junk could be put toward a visit to a nice restaurant once in a while. Order your favorite meal, including dessert if you want.Change your perception of that four letter word diet that ad marketers have on every product in the store because they know you'll buy it if it's labeled "diet" or "lite", they're getting rich and you're getting fat, developing or pre-disposing yourself to serious disease, which will take you into the arms of the billion dollar medical treatments and the legal drug pushers. So you turn to another billion dollar market, weight loss foods and supplements marketed by "credible folks." There may be nothing wrong with any of these things, but they don't work! They are a temporary fix and not sustainable,and lead to feelings of failure, which lead to assuaging the hurt with comfort food.
Don't "diet!"Change your eating habits. Be consistent, repetitive, relentless,true to the game and yourself.Then a nice meal out once in a while, special occasion or vacation doesn't become a traumatic ordeal, filled with self recrimination, starvation diets that can't be sustained,and the inevitable binging! It's crazy and sets you up for weight gain! Even with food costs as high as they are, if you look at the billions that are made by the , junk foods purveyors, "diet" industry gurus,legal drug czars (because there will be no cure while there is so much money to be made)the "cost" may seem worth it. Where do you think those billions come from?
You and me , our elderly parents and grandparents who live on fixed incomes,folks trying to raise families that are at, close to or below the poverty level. Ever notice how the percent of overweight and obesity rises along with the rise in joblessness,homelessness, abject poverty? Oh, maybe we need another fund raiser,yeah right.
Clearly, some articles imply fast food chains are behind the 60% figure of overweight, and further imply, that these folks don't have any self-control, or ability to opt for a salad. They paint a picture of fat,poor and too stupid to get out of their own way! But we already know that starving and binging(yo-yo diets) lead to gaining weight, maybe the poor starve and binge but not on purpose.Oddly the percentage of poor and homeless is about the same as the overweight and obese. Who are the poor? Think those rising numbers correlate with the "fat" problem?
The bottom line is to empower yourselves with knowledge,take control of your own "diet."Live well,eat for health, live long and prosper.
Learn not to shoot yourself in the foot!Don't harbor greasy gooey syrupy sugary sweet junk in your home! Just say no and don't let your kids watch Saturday morning TV while you sleep in! The money you save on junk could be put toward a visit to a nice restaurant once in a while. Order your favorite meal, including dessert if you want.Change your perception of that four letter word diet that ad marketers have on every product in the store because they know you'll buy it if it's labeled "diet" or "lite", they're getting rich and you're getting fat, developing or pre-disposing yourself to serious disease, which will take you into the arms of the billion dollar medical treatments and the legal drug pushers. So you turn to another billion dollar market, weight loss foods and supplements marketed by "credible folks." There may be nothing wrong with any of these things, but they don't work! They are a temporary fix and not sustainable,and lead to feelings of failure, which lead to assuaging the hurt with comfort food.
Don't "diet!"Change your eating habits. Be consistent, repetitive, relentless,true to the game and yourself.Then a nice meal out once in a while, special occasion or vacation doesn't become a traumatic ordeal, filled with self recrimination, starvation diets that can't be sustained,and the inevitable binging! It's crazy and sets you up for weight gain! Even with food costs as high as they are, if you look at the billions that are made by the , junk foods purveyors, "diet" industry gurus,legal drug czars (because there will be no cure while there is so much money to be made)the "cost" may seem worth it. Where do you think those billions come from?
You and me , our elderly parents and grandparents who live on fixed incomes,folks trying to raise families that are at, close to or below the poverty level. Ever notice how the percent of overweight and obesity rises along with the rise in joblessness,homelessness, abject poverty? Oh, maybe we need another fund raiser,yeah right.
Clearly, some articles imply fast food chains are behind the 60% figure of overweight, and further imply, that these folks don't have any self-control, or ability to opt for a salad. They paint a picture of fat,poor and too stupid to get out of their own way! But we already know that starving and binging(yo-yo diets) lead to gaining weight, maybe the poor starve and binge but not on purpose.Oddly the percentage of poor and homeless is about the same as the overweight and obese. Who are the poor? Think those rising numbers correlate with the "fat" problem?
The bottom line is to empower yourselves with knowledge,take control of your own "diet."Live well,eat for health, live long and prosper.
2 comments:
Great post.
We need to make diet a bad word. It shouldn't be politically correct to say.
And healthy shouldn't be at the end of the menu (or a little side option). Too many restaurant treat healthy as a "bad" word.
I just heard on the Gourmet Foodie show Sunday, the Locke-Ober chef say that nutritionists are killing good food. That's not true. Bad restaurants (fast food, school cafeterias, etc.) are killing Americans.
Let's educate Americans and change the system to help provide great meals (at appropriate prices).
Thanks for the comments Ralph, even though I'm a little late with a reply.We're on the same page.I don't know how old you are, but I grew up in a very small town in the Mid-west,and my dad struggled to keep 7 kids and his beloved bride warm and fed and dry.I didn't know I grew up poor,until many years later.We ate well and it was common for everyone to have a garden full of beans,tomatoes,corn,peppers,onions peas,etc.If anyone had extra from their gardens,they would share, so no one would go unfed.We ate well and fortunately we grew up healthy because of our "diet" My dad hasn't changed his habits and is still going strong at 86.My point is good eating habits start early and it's difficult for young families to afford the fresh healthy fruits and vegetables all the time,or even older folks on a fixed income, and people have to eat something!It just doesn't compute in my pea brain, that we have such an unhealthy society.We need to look out for each other more,talk to each other,even if it's just a kind word.Thanks Ralph.
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