Obesity: America’s Big Ass Problem!

I get hundreds of emails a week from people desperate to lose weight, yet they balk at my suggestion that to lose the weight they need to do 5 simple things. Imagine that for a moment, being able to solve a problem that has plagued you for dozens of years simply by making 5 simple changes! Why wouldn't a person do that? Why don't they do it? And why are we so Obese and Overweight when the way to solve it is so simple?

Why?

First off, because we don't want to work at the solution--we want it handed to us in an easy pill or a stomach stapling operation. One woman actually asked me this week if I thought having tape worms placed in her body would be a better option than “dangerous diet pills?” I think stopping eating the unhealthy food might be a bit more sensible and less likely to kill her than either of her two options!

And, because American's have been brainwashed into thinking that dieting (i.e. going on a “short term calorie restricted intake plan”) is the answer that will permanently change them, and they want to believe that because every diet you can name tells the dieter that they can “still have the foods they love but in moderation.” They don't want to change what is causing them to be fat in the first place--they want to fat to go away but their habits to remain the same--unhealthy!

IF and that's a BIG if, we were remotely capable of handling the foods that we “love” in moderation, we wouldn't be in the huge mess of an Obesity Crisis that we now find ourselves stuck in. We wouldn't be spending/wasting $45 Billion dollars a year on diets pills, programs and potions designed to make us thinner yet only end up getting fatter. Our government wouldn't be spending/wasting $100 billion a year trying to fight our fight only to end up with a big fat black-eye of shame. We spend $145 BILLION dollars a year trying to get into our skinny jeans, and the only thing we are succeeding getting into is our coffins prematurely at a staggering rate of up to 300,000 deaths a year directly related to Obesity and possibly another 2.6 million indirectly.

The time has come to ask ourselves honestly, “Do you want to Big Mac or do you want to die early?” I think the “Do you want fries with that?” question should be banned from the face of the earth and be replaced with the question, “Do you want to be buried or cremated?”

Rather than allowing McDonald's to voice their freedom of speech showing fit, healthy and trim people “Lovin' It!” I think the government should force McDonald's to show THIS

picture in their ads and then, do you think Ronald McDonald really has the balls to declare “I'm Lovin' it!” under the obese kids’ picture?

What if the government forced Coca-Cola to put a warning label on the side of every can of their high-fructose corn syrup laced poison: “Warning, consumption of just one of these a day will put 15 pounds a year on your ass.”

  (nice Logo's on their's)

The real “Coke Side of Life” drinkers bottom line looks more like this:

(Notice the Fast food Soft drink next to her?)

I ask you, what's a person to do? Sit back and do nothing or shout the truth that the 3 biggest reasons or “vices” that are making Americans become increasingly out of control fat are Soft Drinks, Fast Food and TV. We eat like food we wouldn't give our dogs, we drink beverages that would kill our houseplants and we get less movement than our ancestors (who incidentally never had weight problems).

Bottom line: Coke use Up in 50 years:

As goes Coke consumption, there go with it our waist lines!

72% eat fast food at least once a week. A coincidence that it’s so close to the number of OVERWEIGHT Americans?

1. Avoid fattening, fried and unhealthy fast foods

2. Abstain from all sugar-laden beverages, including aspartame punch.

3. Get up off the couch and get some movement each day. Even as little as 5 minutes a day will increase your longevity! Wear a pedometer and know are you “busy” or “active” and get more active each day.

Vice Busting...everything else is just a diet!

 

Julia Havey

Author, Motivational Speaker