God Bless Fat America!

This is a long one, but please read! If this sounds familiar, please check out my tips and make changes to your diet!
A common and unhealthy habit or pattern for Americans is not eating often during the day hours. A typical American diet starts with no breakfast. Everyone rushes to get out the door. They say they "don't have time for breakfast or they can't stomach anything early; so just grab their coffee for a quick pick me up or even worse a soda. Not knowing breakfast should be eaten within a hour of waking up or as soon as waking up-the earlier the better, I'll explain myself later on. Having breakfast is the beginning of your weight loss plan.

Mid-morning: Most people feel the dip of energy (dip of sugar levels in the blood) and the craving of choice to eat is sugar in any form of processed carbs. Donuts, danishes, or anything sweet that happens to be in the way or if there is nothing around, just another cup of coffee will do.

Lunch time: Like breakfast lunch is not a priority for most Americans. That report they are working on needs to be on their boss's desk by 5pm and that is far more important then lunch. Their errands need to be done so no time to make lunch. A cheese burger run or if working, the office vending machines will do just fine. Maybe they decide on something healthy like a "salad"---never mind the 400 calories of blue cheese on it.

But come that wonderful time of the day, 3pm-4pm the time most people will eat anything and everything! No matter what type of willpower, (remember it's not about that-it's just that your brain needs glucose. It needs sugar!!!)energy or "unhungry" they've been, it all falls apart at this time of the day. The gorge begins! However, if they're too busy or no food is around another soda or coffee will push them until they get home or on there way home (fast food pit stop)

Arrival Home: Most people head straight to the refrigerator starved and while deciding what to have for dinner or while waiting for dinner to be ready, can eat and entire meal's worth in calories. 2 cookies here, a bite of bread here and there, 2 spoonfuls of leftovers etc...

Dinner time! By this time most people are half full and by the time they finish their dinner very full-even stuffed. But as full as they maybe, there is always that little craving of need for something "sweet..."

8:30pm: People sit down to watch TV relax after dinner totally stuffed if they managed to stay awake pass 8:30pm. A commercial about food comes on, "I'll just finish the other half of desert"...popcorn, chips, cereal, ice cream yada, yada..

I know you don't have these bad habits! But most of America does. Look at the contestants of the show, "The Biggest Loser," the magazines with the latest diet fads and look in your streets and schools. Before the ratio of fat kid vs. thin kid was 1:12 in a classroom (I know-I was the 1 in 12)now it's normal to see 3-4 obese kids in a classroom! I'll continue with this subject on next blog!

to be continued...