Week 35, Tuesday, Diet with Dianna

 2 Thessalonians 2: 10 & 11 He will use every kind of evil deception to fool those on their way to destruction, because they refuse to love and accept the truth that would save them. So God will cause them to be greatly deceived, and they will believe these lies.

Who's to Blame? The blame game!

I remembered a quote in one of my favorite animated movies, Meet the Robinson's.

Hmm, let's see... take responsibility for my own life or blame you? Dingdingdingdingding! Blame you wins hands down!   

I read an article today from a health website that puts blame for obesity on nearly everything except the real reason. The article blames so many different people and organizations for the sad state of obesity that Americans are in.  It is much easier to blame someone else than go to the heart of the real reasons being an overweight society. In this particular article it blames: television, the food industry, schools, parents, movies, and many more.

Sadly, the true reason most people are fat is a lack of self control. Hey, let's blame someone else and then take a pill? Duh! Satan wants us to all be deceived. He doesn't want us to be healthy. He doesn't want us to use self control. It's evident that the world has jumped on the blame game band wagon so they don't have to work at losing weight. Blame someone else, attach some medical term to it and WHAM-O, you have a pharmaceutical company making a "miracle" weight loss pill.

The diet and pharmaceutical industries are about the only ones, in this burdened economy, that are making money.  It's true. And to make matter worse, even the doctors and surgeons have joined the club. If you have enough money you can have an adjustable band put around the opening to the stomach to prevent overeating. Sadly, the overweight person hasn't learned the core reasons for overeating and living a sedentary lifestyle, but instead has chosen to have radical surgery, which fails to help the person lose weight after only 6 months to a year. WHY? because the quick fixes do not get to the core of the problem. It is much easier to let someone else fix it than to take responsibility and change your lifestyle.

So let's stop blaming the world for YOUR overeating problem. The good food is out there, you just have to make the RIGHT choices. You must get up and get your heart rate pumping and workout your muscles. Only you can make that decision. TAKE responsibility for your own mistakes. Make a change in your eating lifestyle. Be accountable for your actions and grab an accountability partner. It also won't hurt to spend time in the Word of God by filling those cravings for food with praise and worship to Him.

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Exercise:

Walked the mall (raining and cold outside)

Menu:

No breakfast - slept too late.

Meat, beans, cheese, guacamole and a few corn chips, diet cola

Dinner: Three chicken tenders.

Snack: Cheese popcorn and a Chai Tea Latte (sugar free).