You are expected to eat junk food… if you don’t, something is majorly wrong with you. Let me explain…
One of the first steps you MUST take to build muscle, burn fat, and get a better body is to eat healthy foods ALL THE TIME. It’s not a temporary diet… it’s a change in your lifestyle.
The other day… someone asked me if I wanted an extra Snickers Bar they had. I said, “No Thanks.” They responded, “Are you on a diet or something?”
Well, that was the wrong question to ask me. I really get tired of the mindset we have in the world today.
If you aren’t chowing down on junk food throughout the day, getting snacks out of the snack machine, eating all the junk people bring in around the holidays, eating cake at your 18th cousin’s birthday party, eating free pizza for lunch at work, and gulping down chips and salsa at your local Mexican restaurant… then you are crazy and you are on a diet trying to “lose weight.”
Blah, blah, blah. That’s what I think about weight loss and temporary diets.
So how did I respond to this person?
I simply said… “No, I am not on a diet. I just choose not to eat junk foods that are unhealthy.”
And what do I get? I always get the “You’re crazy!” look any time I tell someone this… and get used to people thinking you’re a health nut just because you won’t eat fast food for lunch every day and won’t take the free cupcakes you’re work place is giving you to celebrate Valentine’s Day.
Here’s something else that is truly hilarious… my workplace gets on this health kick. They tell us to sign up for their health and fitness challenge. They measure success by the amount of exercise you do and the amount of weight you lose. Horrible ways to measure progress if I might add…
But anyway… they then feed you free pizza all the time, free cookies, free cupcakes, and fill the workplace with snack machines filled with soda, candy, chips, and other junk. And these are supposed to help the morale around the workplace. It’s hilarious… it just leads to health problems, people in bad moods from the sugar crash, a fatter employee base, and much more of the wrong things.
What happened to the fitness and health challenge? It lasts around 1 day and then everyone forgets about it. That’s it. It’s over. Typical.
Why are we like this in our society today? We have it all backwards. We continue to empower the junk food manufacturers by buying this junk and eating it as a part of our regular diet every single day. I will admit… I eat junk food every once in a while but it’s something like once every 3 to 4 weeks.
Our normal everyday diet should consist of healthy foods with a little junk food every now and then… not the other way around. We eat junk food all the time and eat a little bit of healthy food every now and then. Some people NEVER eat healthy food.
And that’s why our world today is the FATTEST and UNHEALTHIEST it has ever been. Really, we have to do something about it now or we will start losing our loved ones earlier and earlier. Some may live a long life due to improvements in medicine and health care but they won’t live a happy life because they will be limited in everything that can do.
Let’s start living the way we should be living. Get rid of the junk food and replace it with natural, healthy foods. You will see a HUGE difference in your life, and you won’t have to wait long. Within a week, you will look better and feel better. Make the permanent change. That’s the only choice you have if you want a happy and long life.
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Josh,
I find the same thing to be true for myself. I actually find that when someone offers me a donut and I turn them down some people get upset that I declined their offer. Still, I feel bad that they feel bad but like the manual says, “Its times like these that separate the strong from the weak”
-Kevin-
I know what you mean, Kevin. People take it as rejection when you won’t take their food. They really shouldn’t. People at my workplace now know that I don’t eat junk so they don’t even ask me any more.
One guy that I work with used to just keep on and on. He would go, “Come on… just take it. Come on. It won’t hurt you. Just take it.” So I started offering him some of my raw broccoli. When he said no… I said come on man… just take it. It’s good. Come on.
Our world is backward. We shouldn’t be eating all the junk food. But people expect us to eat it… because everyone does. I live in Kentucky and it’s one of the fattest states in the country. Childhood obesity is #1, and that makes me sick. Parents need to take responsibility and realize they are hurting their children. Really.