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 what you’ve been eating over time.

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!

The second assumption is that you reached this page because you want to change something. If you are overweight, 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 Kevin 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! Add that to the fact that most American's also have little to no self-discipline, and you've got a disaster.

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? ‘Splain’ 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.

For those who truly want to lose weight, you must find the best way to cut back that works for you. If that means cutting out Burger King, then do that. If it means salad for dinner with lots of fresh vegetables, instead of pizza and chicken wings, then do that.

If it means cutting out all bread so you can still enjoy 2 glasses of wine at night, then do that. How 'bout cutting out chips with your sandwich at lunch? You have to use self control and self-discipline and cut back on something. Or eat half of what you regularly eat in one day, and you will lose weight.

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:

* breakfast is oatmeal with berries, cereal, apple, or two hard boiled eggs
* lunch is usually salad with chicken
* dinner is light, whatever we’re having that night
* snacking is allowed but not too much rich stuff like chips and ice cream
* eat fruits and veggies at least 2-3 times a day
* certain foods should be treated like medicine: olive oil, berries, garlic, salmon, fresh food of any type, (eat as much of these foods that you can!)
* drink as much water as you can, 6-8 good size glasses if possible (lots of water consumption suppresses your appetite)
* limit alcohol to 1-2 drinks per day(even less is good!)

Plus you’ll need to exercise 3-4 times a week, including both strength training and aerobic exercises. If you have time to talk on the phone and time to watch TV, then you have time to exercise. Dig it?

American's lives are very complicated. One way to clean up the complicated lifestyle is by getting back to the basics. Eat simple basic foods and you will lose weight and save money. The best part is that once you get used to eating healthy foods, you’re body will crave them instead of Ding Dongs and Ho Ho’s. It’ll also help curb back your options and choices that usually only leave you confused and annoyed.

Eating is natural but overeating is not. Being overweight is not normal either. If you took out a high school yearbook from 20 years ago and looked at the students, you would find that hardly any of the students were overweight. If you went back 40 years ago, they’d be even leaner. If you look at them now, you’d be astonished at how American’s waistlines have bloomed!

You may or may not agree with my rantings, and that's OK. But when you see how overweight children have become, you have to question some of the choices that have been made. It should be very clear that what we’re doing now is not working.

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