Dieting in America – Has it Come to This?
As a nation, we’re obsessed with dieting. We’re either on a diet, thinking about dieting, going off a diet…you get the picture. (I guess I’m not helping matters any, am I?)
Is there anyone left in America who is a normal weight?
And aren’t the messages we’re getting so conflicting? One commercial tries to tell you that it’s good to be full or otherwise SuperSize you.
The next commercial is for a dieting program.
A third tells you about a new candy that because it has dark chocolate, it has less fat. Now that may be true, but the insinuation is that the candy bar is almost, well, diet when it’s far from it!
Dieting in America is a national pastime, and the scary part is that it’s not about losing 10 or 15 pounds anymore to look better. No, now we’re fighting for our lives and having to lose 40 or 80 or a hundred or more pounds. And yes, I fall in that category (although I’ve already lost 70 – yippee!).
It’s hard enough being overweight at 30 or 40 or 50 or 60 years old. But what happens as we age even more? Will we be able to walk around — or will diabetes have robbed some of our senses and put us in a wheelchair? And for that matter, will we be able to find a wheelchair to fit into? Take that one step further — can we even get up out of bed without help? Scary thoughts.
We’re into instant gratification — or at least fast. We want to lose weight the same way — go to sleep fat and wake up thin. I really wish it worked that way…but it doesn’t.
Dieting. Hard word. But doing it successfully can make the difference between a good quality of life as we get older, or one where we have to watch everything and everyone pass us by.
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