Overweight and The Big 'D'

If you can't figure out why you are overweight, there may be two things directly related to it. The first thing is that you may have an ongoing problem with self discipline, or what I like to call the Big D. Losing weight won’t be easy if you don’t have any self control!

The other thing working against you is that you have probably bought into the Standard American Diet. The Standard American Diet is making us all fat and sick. If you’ve been gaining weight, it’s probably not any one thing you’ve been eating, rather it’s a cumulative response to everything you’ve been eating over time.

American's Overweight

The Standard American Diet is based on junk foods that only invite more junk foods. These foods have created a time bomb in your body ready to explode, as Diabetes, Cardiovascular problems, blood pressure problems, and a general lack of good health. If you are gaining weight, something is causing it. That’s the first assumption you must make!

The second assumption is that you reached this page because you want to change something. If you are carrying around excess weight, something’s got to change or you’ll keep in the vicious cycle! If you want to change something, you have got to have some self-control. The only person you can control is you.

You can't control Aunt Betty or Uncle Frank or your BFF Cheryl or your own mother. The only person you can control is you! Once you gain control over your life, you'll be able to sort out the things you need to do to take back control of your eating habits.

American’s have devalued food. Food has no meaning any more. Meals are not a celebration of time together like they used to be. Families are not even using their own kitchen tables. They are using them instead, for paperwork and bill paying.

Another neglected fact is that we do not spend enough time thinking about the crap that we put into our bodies. We are instead spending our time going through drive through windows and stuffing fast food into our mouths in a hurry.

If you want to lose weight, you are going to have to spend more time thinking about the foods you pop into your pie hole! Most of the chronic diseases that are killing us, whether it's heart disease, diabetes, obesity, and many incurable Cancers, are directly attributed to the foods we consume.

People are overweight in the US because we eat way too much food! Period! Add that to the fact that most American's also have little to no self-discipline, and you've got a disaster waiting to happen.

There is a huge price to pay for fast food convenience! Fast food restaurants serve us huge over-sized portions and tell us that they’re normal portions. What’s even worse is that the fast food chains tell us they’re 'normal' and we somehow believe them! We’ve bought into the idea that bigger is somehow better! Another perversion is that people believe that if they don’t get huge portions, they aren’t somehow getting their money’s worth. HUH? Explain that one will ya?

The cost of being overweight in the health care system alone is astronomical. Last year alone, American’s spent $28 billion on prescriptions drugs.

Controlling urges to eat junk foods is the first place to start. Use disciplined eating most of the time and pigging out a small part of the time.

Disciplined eating means not thinking about food more than you have to. Focus only on one meal at a time during the day and eat the things you already have at home if possible. Meals don't have to be glamorous to be good!