Hot and Healthy – Thriving Through Menopause One Pound at a Time – Day 56, April 6, 2024
Let’s talk about the “quick fix” for weight loss.
There ISN’T one.
Ozempic. Wegovy. Etc., Etc., Etc. Gastric bypass. Tummy tucks.
You may call them “quick fixes”, but they are far from it and come with a host of complications themselves that one has a choice to avoid. That you have a choice to avoid.
We’ve always wanted the quickest, fastest way to get something done. We no longer appreciate the work it takes to get something done right. Like losing weight.
Imagine a custom piece of furniture. The intricacies of the patterns, the love and care it took to make the piece. The maker of this furniture also must take extremely amazing care of their tools. They appreciate their workspace. They take the time, sometimes days, sometimes months, and for some pieces, it can take years, to make the piece a part of themselves.
Now go to Target and look at the furniture there. No one cared for it. No one nurtured the wood. It’s not a “piece” of someone who created it. It’s cheap and disposable.
That is how many of you are treating your bodies. Like a piece of replaceable Target furniture.
We were not born to be fat or lazy. The ancestors that came before us worked hard to maintain farms, stores, families, and to care for their bodies. They had to. A splinter could kill you.
We don’t work hard anymore and are now fat and lazy.
Machines work farms, carts carry our bags, other people make our food.
Go ahead and blame it on fast food, processed food, junk food, whatever, but the truth is people have no self-control and no discipline, or we wouldn’t eat this crap. Yes, I have eaten this crap food too, but not to the point of gluttony (except when I was bulimic, 40 years ago), and I do not eat it now. I know better and so do you.
There is too much information out there these days to claim ignorance.
When I was younger, the quick fix worked. Starve yourself, take a few diet pills, lose 5 pounds in a week. But a lot has changed since the 1980’s. I got old, and I got menopause. Back then, tummy tucks were reserved for rich people with 2 extra pounds. Gastric bypass was to remove ulcers.
Now, people who are too lazy to exercise and eat right are stealing Ozempic from true diabetics.
There is a reason gluttony is one of the 7 deadly sins.
Don’t tell me to feel sorry for someone who complains about their weight and eats out all the time or eats a whole bag of chips or a box of cookies in one sitting. I have zero sympathy.
For many, many moons, overweight and obese people were revered. Being fat was indicative of prosperity. But now, the current worldwide epidemic of obesity is now recognized as a public health crisis, and it is barely a few decades old.
The abundance of quick and easy food is partially to blame, but so are you because you lack the self-control to say no.
I can count on one hand how many times I have grabbed something to eat while waiting in line at the supermarket checkout in the last year, or how many times I ate fast food in the last 12 months. I don’t. It is unhealthy food packaged in unhealthy wrappers. I refuse to participate anymore.
Your body doesn’t miss what you don’t give it, your mind does, and your mind can be controlled.
How I eat is not a “diet”, not a quick fix. It is a lifestyle choice of eating delicious food that is healthy for me. And most of it is made at home because anyone can learn to make amazing food at home that is healthy.
So get off your butt. Make good choices with your food and your lifestyle.
Along with exercising, I must do Physical Therapy, so taking care of my body takes a couple of hours a day and I have made it a priority.
Dinner was Mahi Mahi with Rice Pilaf and roasted asparagus.
Some of this information was gathered from reading this article: https://www.akdh.org/article/S1548-5595(06)00106-6/fulltext
Below are the exercise routines I did today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-biuQ994puA
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