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How Are We American’s Gonna Lose Weight?
- By Laura Lexington
- Published 08/22/2007
- Wellness, Fitness and Diet
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Laura Lexington
Laura Lexington is a freelance writer who enjoys observing life around her writing about it. She recommends visiting http://www.wiiwiiworkout.com Watch for other observations by Laura elsewhere
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It seems official. We are fat! Maybe YOU are not fat, maybe I’m not (but I actually am), but let’s face it – as a group we ARE getting fatter and fatter! So let’s see – we could:
Diet! We’ve done it before – come on.. you remember! - here is a list of some diets we’ve done.
Atkins diet, Body for Life, Cabbage soup diet, Detox diet, Feingold diet, Fit for Life diet, Glycemic Index diet, The Graham Diet, Grapefruit diet, Jenny Craig, Macrobiotic diet, Pritikin diet, Scarsdale Diet, South Beach diet, Rice Diet/Duke University diet, Vegetarian diet, Weight Watchers, Zone diet.
I’m looking at this list. I know for sure I’ve done six of them. I’m not any skinnier today for it, although some of these did cause me to lose weight for a while. But…. No.. they just DON’T WORK.
So now what?? And WHY? Since there has been so much talk lately about our weight is it just me or are you noticing a greater proportion of thick waists when you are out and about? At the mall, in the airport, at the yogurt store (shhhhhh – I know I shouldn’t be there in the first place).
I am fatter (I think) because
of computers. Yup! I’m fatter because I spend a lot of time reading emails, typing emails, forwarding emails, transferring photos, editing photos, searching Google, searching Yahoo, reading online news (which I then see again on TV or read about in the newspaper). All of this requires sitting.
So I am fatter because I SIT a lot! Do you? There should be a new term for this. I’m not a couch potato because I’m not sitting on a couch. So.. maybe I’m an office chair pumpkin. This better describes my appearance from the back.
I know what I have to do.. that *E* word – no.. not as in E-lectronics or Email. I wish it were that but it’s that other *E*. EXERCISE.
Sigh. I don’t want to do it. Why do the people who are NOT fat enjoy it so much? Is this what separates the lean from the meaty folk? The leans LIKE eating less. They LIKE exercising?
I’m going out to buy a Nintendo Wii. I hear it’s a bit of a workout and that it will help me lose weight. Maybe that way I can get both my *E*s done at once – electronic consumption and exercise. I’m going to lose weight! I’m going to do it playing video games online! I’ll fight fat while I fight someone else out there in the ether – who probably is also fat!
Diet! We’ve done it before – come on.. you remember! - here is a list of some diets we’ve done.
Atkins diet, Body for Life, Cabbage soup diet, Detox diet, Feingold diet, Fit for Life diet, Glycemic Index diet, The Graham Diet, Grapefruit diet, Jenny Craig, Macrobiotic diet, Pritikin diet, Scarsdale Diet, South Beach diet, Rice Diet/Duke University diet, Vegetarian diet, Weight Watchers, Zone diet.
I’m looking at this list. I know for sure I’ve done six of them. I’m not any skinnier today for it, although some of these did cause me to lose weight for a while. But…. No.. they just DON’T WORK.
So now what?? And WHY? Since there has been so much talk lately about our weight is it just me or are you noticing a greater proportion of thick waists when you are out and about? At the mall, in the airport, at the yogurt store (shhhhhh – I know I shouldn’t be there in the first place).
I am fatter (I think) because
So I am fatter because I SIT a lot! Do you? There should be a new term for this. I’m not a couch potato because I’m not sitting on a couch. So.. maybe I’m an office chair pumpkin. This better describes my appearance from the back.
I know what I have to do.. that *E* word – no.. not as in E-lectronics or Email. I wish it were that but it’s that other *E*. EXERCISE.
Sigh. I don’t want to do it. Why do the people who are NOT fat enjoy it so much? Is this what separates the lean from the meaty folk? The leans LIKE eating less. They LIKE exercising?
I’m going out to buy a Nintendo Wii. I hear it’s a bit of a workout and that it will help me lose weight. Maybe that way I can get both my *E*s done at once – electronic consumption and exercise. I’m going to lose weight! I’m going to do it playing video games online! I’ll fight fat while I fight someone else out there in the ether – who probably is also fat!