And What Causes Such Hatred for the Healthy, The Planet Savers and the Animal Lovers? These idiots. (it may not play here- it's okay my lazy friend, click on "Play on YouTube") Admit it. We've all met these people. Meanwhile, you're the poor sap just trying to do the right thing but it never really works out as planned... Hey, at least you can laugh about it, right? You Think The Only Way Out Is Some Institutional Nightmare Just because you THINK you need a lobotomy to quit pasta, doesn't mean it's true... but where else do these healthy hipsters come from? It's not about Pasta. It's not about Soda or Sweet Tea or Chocolate. No, you won't turn into some spineless jelly fish with a progressive brain and no common sense. Yes, you'll feel better. No, it won't be easy. But stop being overly serious. Stop worrying so much. Stop being afraid of what you don't know. Stop hesitating on what you know you need to do. Excuses come in every shape and color, but what they all have in common is fear. Fear of Failure. Fear of the unknown. Fear of success. It can come in the form of comedy, of bitterness, procrastination, excuses, satire or ignorance, but it all boils down to your fear of change. Start by laughing more. Realize your not the only one. And be open to the possibility that you may actually lose weigh this time. Grasp the fact that maybe, just maybe, you don't have to take all those pills anymore. And maybe, theres a small hope that you can feel joy again. Start telling yourself it IS possible, believe it, but then... calm down and don't take everything so seriously: Life is meant to be lived.
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The pharmaceutical companies and their advertisers and benefactors would love for you to believe that if you have a problem, you can just walk right into their office and walk out all better.
At every turn, you are told to consult with your doctor, talk to your physician or ask your doctor if it's right for you. But the reality is that people all across this country are underinsured or have no insurance at all. Those on government assistance are at the mercy of the government. Veterans are dying while waiting to be seen. Low income earners have no insurance or are drastically underinsured. Then, you have your middle class who can afford the insurance, but usually not much else. Most co-pays range from $25-$100 depending on the type of physician, not including anything other than saying hello and shaking hands. If you want more information than just your blood pressure and weight, then you will be taking tests which come with their own expenses. You have to return to the physician to get the test results, which will be another co-pay. Those tests may require more tests, or the physician will recommend a pharmaceutical drug. They will tell you, in this order; what it is, how long it's been out, how their patients like it, features and benefits. They will then ask you whether you'd like to try it. After agreeing, they will give you the fine print, if you have a good doctor, and most likely, your prescription will also have a fee. The doctor will tell you to return in 30-60 days to “see how it's working for you” and to come back in the mean time of you need anything else. There's another co-pay you'll need to pay in 30-60 days. If you do this only 2-3 times per year, you may not see horror in this cycle; but for the chronically ill it is a way of life.
Those with life long diseases aren't like those happy people in the commercials who took Lyrica. The chronically ill don't look relaxed and at peace after taking Lunesta or Ambien.
They don't have the luxury of just walking in to see Dr. Smith and getting a magic pill to cure their ills. Yet, that is what the medical and pharmaceutical companies tell us will happen. The truth is that the costs associated with being sick usually outweigh the insurance premiums; meaning the total expense for health coverage has now doubled. People go hungry, get their phones cut off, and go without, in order to see their doctor to get a pill that won't help them. And yet we keep going back! You aren't better. You’re broke and yet, like a Guinea pig, you and the rest of the American public keeps trying one chemical after another to cure something that was generally CAUSED by chemicals. It's like going back to a drug dealer for crack in order to get off of heroin. And people are dying. People are suffering silently with no voice and no options, while the pharmaceutical industry and insurance companies are raking in millions.
But the real problem that is never addressed is the mindset caused in every-day Americans. If they fall prey to an illness, visit the doctor, get a pill, and do all that they were told to do and STILL aren't better, then they think it's a failure on their part. They try more medications, different tests, other doctors, more pills and yet after thousands of dollars are spent, rarely is the outcome what is portrayed in those catchy tv ads.
Patients are left worse off than they started, with less money in their pockets and less faith in the medical community. The very oath that doctors promise to uphold states that “food should be the medicine and medicine thy food.” Yet, it is grossly overlooked by mainstream doctors at the sad disadvantage of millions of patients around the country. The Veteran’s Administration is happy to prescribe pill after pill after pill, but refuses to actually HELP our vets. It's a societal ill that is perpetuated by advertisers, the news media, and our very own doctors. Patients around the county have heard “…if that medication doesn't work, we’ll just keep trying until we find one.”
Is that the purpose of our medical professionals? Surely all would deny it goes on except for the people who undergo it. Many of the pharmaceutical ads on television tell you upfront that their product may cause heart failure, rectal bleeding, cancer, and death why the FDA allows these drugs, these poisons to be sold to the public and pushed by the doctors.
How many of us have seen the medical vendors in the doctor’s offices? Usually, they are providing some free product like stress balls, cookies, pens, or candy and, of course free trials of new drugs to give to their patients. It must be clearly understood that there is no one-pill solution for any health issue. Just by the very definition of science, a foreign substance is entering the body; a non-organic material. Remember, that for every action there will be a reaction and there will be consequences of doing such. Those who are pursuing a healthy lifestyle must first get out of this mindset. It's not one small thing that you must change. You have to change your life. You can't stop drinking soda, do nothing else, and expect change. You can't walk 3x a week and expect to lose weight if you don't address what's causing the weight. Birthing a life is creating a blank pallet. Recreating a life is sifting and moving and rearranging hats already there. It's building upon years of victory and hurts, life lessons and growth opportunities. You have to change your mind before you can ever change your body. The pharmaceutical industry will never tell you that. They would rather you try their next latest and greatest drug to cure what their last one caused. Get out of the cycle and move towards a more meaningful and healthy life by working with your body instead of against it. Don't be a sheep to the slaughter. Be the free eagle you were meant to be. In the next 2 weeks you’ll be bombarded by cheesy ads for making “THIS year, YOUR year” “Lose 30lbs by Valentines” or “How to quit smoking fast” and my personal favorites, all the fitness ads. |
| Every body wants to lose weight. Everyone wants to know that mysterious secret to how Angela down the street never gains a damn pound. Everyone wants the energy. Everyone wants the drive. Everyone wants. Everybody wants.I want to be in a giant real life Willy Wonka factory and would love to strip nude and swim in the chocolate river, followed up with eating every gummy and eatable teacup and plate my eyes can find. Sure. But like children, we do not think of the reaction to our actions. |
You may want to slam the driver in front of you going 20mph in a 45; but you don’t because you think of the reaction. The reaction is far worse than your action. Hence your fear of loss is greater than your fear of gain.
You want to hit Bad Driver Goober on his cell phone, but you know if you do, you’ll be in jail and that outcome is worse than the satisfaction you’ll feel. See where I’m going with this?
The same voice of sanity that goes off in your head there, needs to sound off with your food choices.
You want to hit Bad Driver Goober on his cell phone, but you know if you do, you’ll be in jail and that outcome is worse than the satisfaction you’ll feel. See where I’m going with this?
The same voice of sanity that goes off in your head there, needs to sound off with your food choices.
Who said you can’t eat? Pound per pound, I eat 2x as much food as the Average American, yet I’m not obese as most of America is. Don’t allow ignorance to become your excuse. You and I both know you could eat more of the good stuff and less of the bad. But it’s a matter of will. It falls back to “how badly do you want it?”. Are you willing to suffer, to change, to learn, in order to grow into who you want to become?Women give up smoking for the baby in their womb, they suffer the withdrawls, and do so willingly and with commitment- because their love for their child exceeds their love of smoking. Your love of your body needs to exceed your love of breads or sugar. Be your own hero.
You say you like eating too much because You are scared to fail, or fail again
Your afraid to admit you lack the discipline You don’t know how to start, or where
You don’t have on going support after the inspiration ends
Your afraid to admit you lack the discipline You don’t know how to start, or where
You don’t have on going support after the inspiration ends
3. "I don't have time to change everything around"
I hear this more often than not. People have a false sense of what is required for inner change because they base it on what advertisers sell them. American’s believe in what I refer to as a “one pill Solution”. Headache? Take a pill. Lose Weight? Drink this shake. Depressed? Take these pills. Can’t sleep? Drink this.
And if the real world worked like that, you’re right, we DON’T have time for all that.
But that’s only how the marketing companies what you to think. You are a created customer of the pharmaceutical industry.
And if the real world worked like that, you’re right, we DON’T have time for all that.
But that’s only how the marketing companies what you to think. You are a created customer of the pharmaceutical industry.
What you don’t have time for are symptoms of a greater problem. Stop chasing the symptoms and get to the core. Change THAT and you change everything.
Change your self belief, change your thinking. Change your thinking, change your actions.
Change your actions, you change your life. It all starts with believing in yourself.
Change your actions, you change your life. It all starts with believing in yourself.
4. "I don't have the money to change everything and buy a bunch of stuff"
Hey! Guess what? Most American’s have less than $1,000 in savings… so most of us don’t have the money to change everything around.
But who again told you that you had to?......Or was that just an assumption you made?
Waiting until we are ready means we will never be ready. Your desire for change needs to exceed your fear of it. You do not need to spend an excess amount of money in order to eat healthy. Anyone who tells you that is selling you something. You are going to spend money anyway on food. And you will be for the rest of your life. That will never ever change. It’s a fixed cost of being a human.
But who again told you that you had to?......Or was that just an assumption you made?
Waiting until we are ready means we will never be ready. Your desire for change needs to exceed your fear of it. You do not need to spend an excess amount of money in order to eat healthy. Anyone who tells you that is selling you something. You are going to spend money anyway on food. And you will be for the rest of your life. That will never ever change. It’s a fixed cost of being a human.
So let’s think about how much that box of cheerio’s cost you…. $3.69 in Florida. That could buy a box of organic oatmeal. Same cost, WAY better benefits. Add up your cost on flavored drinks, teas etc. And yes, I hear you screaming “oh hell no she’s not taking away my sweet tea!”
No, I’m not. Just add up the cost. And let that sink in. Your buying sugar water and chemicals which cause you to get sick and gain weight all for the pleasure of taste on the tongue? American’s need Coke and Pepsi like a crack addict needs its next fix.
No, I’m not. Just add up the cost. And let that sink in. Your buying sugar water and chemicals which cause you to get sick and gain weight all for the pleasure of taste on the tongue? American’s need Coke and Pepsi like a crack addict needs its next fix.
But I NEED it”. | No. You don't need it. Your fat needs it. Fight back friends. |
You think it will cost more money because:
You are afraid to look at what you’re really doing, you’re comfortable
Lack of education No Support
You are afraid to look at what you’re really doing, you’re comfortable
Lack of education No Support
5. "Ya but, you don't know MY situation"
And here my dear reader, you are 100% I do not know your situation. Only you do. Only you know what it will take to achieve that dream you have. You know the hard work it will require. You immediately think of everything you’ll have to undergo to achieve it and you feel overwhelmed.
Then, every single time, you stand back and take inventory of yourself. And the hate talk begins. “Remember last year? You did it for like a week, you really think you’ll do it this time?”
“Look how fat you are. You got like 100lbs to lose, you’ve tried 100 times and failed every time”
“Every diet you try fails anyway, none of this shit works so why even bother?”
“You know your doctor said you’ll never be like before, stop trying”
Then, every single time, you stand back and take inventory of yourself. And the hate talk begins. “Remember last year? You did it for like a week, you really think you’ll do it this time?”
“Look how fat you are. You got like 100lbs to lose, you’ve tried 100 times and failed every time”
“Every diet you try fails anyway, none of this shit works so why even bother?”
“You know your doctor said you’ll never be like before, stop trying”
These heart breaking thoughts will keep going through your head, but only YOU have the power to change that. You have the power to start believing it before you ever see it. Love yourself enough to fight back against these. Love yourself to look in the mirror and SAY IT to yourself “I love you”. And let those voices come. This is your battle and your fight and YOU only you have the ability to fight it and win.
It’s easy to let advertisers tell you what you want to hear, that it will be easy and quick- but they are lying. It’s easy to think a pill will fix you- but it won’t. It’s easy to look out the window in search of a hero to break in ad save us from our ails- but they will never come.
2016 isn't the year of resolutions
It's the year of the Fighter
The year we break free from the lies we tell ourselves, the comfort zones we build around ourselves, and we find our courage to grow into who we NEED to become.
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