Nope, it is NOT McDOnalds. I NEVER go there and I still got fat. People are looking for someone to blame. Put down the fork~!
It’s a substitute for sex.
Well, I’m not “fat”, per se, but yeah. I avoid all fast foods and have for decades. But for many it is a contributing factor. And donuts. And corn chips. And milk. and ice cream...
“Put down the fork~!”
You’re part right. Blaming it on a business that supplies what the public “wishes” to put in their mouths is not the answer. Businesses that make their money selling food will always entice you to buy what they can supply. But putting down the fork isn’t the answer either.
There are two pieces of eating to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Neither has to do with amount of food or the time or way you eat it. Obesity is a definition based upon what people think. It’s like everyone being 98.6 degrees for a normal temperature. Hippos are bigger than worms. Both eat, just different amounts they need to maintain their DNA requirements. And they eat different things consistent with their natural dietary requirements.
It’s even different among species. This is shark week on TV. All week we have seen sharks of many different shapes and sizes eat fish, people, seals...as they will eat about anything. Yet the largest sharks, basking, megamouth, and the whale shark eat plankton including copepods, krill, fish eggs, Christmas Island red crab larvae and occasionally may accidentally ingest small nektonic life, such as small squid or fish. So the choice of foods is important as to their, like your, needs.
The other piece of eating is misconception. If a person is healthy, in most cases, if they are concerned about it, they will eat to filling and not to gluttony. Overeating is not a disease like diabetes, insulin resistance, or thyroid problems. At least not physically. (Both these illnesses can cause obesity)
I trained military members conditioning for many years along with their family members. The only things I ever asked them to do was to use what they ate, and asked themselves how they felt. Did they all become skinny? Not even close. Did they all reach conditioning levels at their peak? At their peak, yes. But it wasn’t done by putting down the fork. It was because they wanted to feel better about and for themselves. You still have to put good gas in the car for it to run.
And all the finger pointing out there, gym membership proposals, the advertising of 400 calorie fast food sandwiches, (do you want fires with that), were parts of the hurdles they had to jump to get there. Everyone has a symbol of appearance...Arnold, Tom Cruise, Marlyn, Rachael McLish....many different ones. Why don’t they make it? Their DNA and their capacity is different and won’t let them. So setting a standard that can’t be reached is not healthy, it creates further problems mentally. Yet society demands concurrence with the unreachable. And they realize at the same time that the last perfect person on earth was put on the cross. But that’s how money is made.
Be who you are and be happy with it. You can be the tiger or the gorilla or the hippo, all are large eaters. And I’ve never seen any of them in the wild doing sets with dumbbells or even changing their diets to fit the observers around them. Man is the only animal on earth that creates expectations for others. And I’m told we’re on top of the food chain. How we got there is not a mystery but staying there is.
rwood
I’ve cut bread and pasta almost completely out and I appear to have lost some about the waist.