Are people really reading The whole tweet, Instagram or Facebook posts. Many do, but an equal number do not. Remember yesterday’s post. The one right below this post. The one saying that I started my lifestyle changes in 2009. This morning I got a Direct mail inquiry asking if I wanted to share my quick weight loss journey and secrets. I kid you not.
My question is simple. Is a dozen years, that’s right 12 years now considered a quick weight loss journey? In my most humble of opinions I am going to say it’s not. I just might be putting myself a little outside the conventional thinking on this one.
The next questions are do I answer? Do I ingore this one entirely. Do I really want to put myself out there for random people to question my choices about my body and lifestyle? I have not even heard of this person before. Is she trying to gain her 15 minutes of fame off of my work? If she was really interested in my journey, she would have gone back to my blog posts from 2009 and starting reading them by herself. She would have done her homework. If she wants someone to spoon feed her story material she should hire someone, preferably a professional with a degree.
So the quick answer to a long post is no, I am not going to left her feature me in a story about quick weight loss. I tried quick weight loss for years starting when I was 12. My mom put me on a diet because I was 2 whole pounds over my “ideal weight “. She taught me how to binge. Explained how broken cookies had no calories because there was no way to measure out a cookie from a bag of broken cookies. Also explained that if you ate just a sliver of anything it did not count, because it was not a whole piece. How to eat couipous amounts of sweets. Taught me that exercise was bad because it put on weight. I now know that muscle weight is better than fat weight. Muscle weight is also firmer. Muscle weight is heavier by volume. How drinking diet soda was better than milk or water, my preferred drinks at the time. We are supposed to trust our parents to give us good information
If you have children of any age all I can say to you is do not let your kids diet. Have healthy foods around all the time. Indulge them in the produce section of the store, even if it is a budget buster. Teach them about walking and finding ways to stay active. Teach them to live a healthy lifestyle.
Let them be like my daughter. I once thought she liked cookies. When we went grocery shopping she would carefully pick out cookies to add to her lunch. I did not find out until a couple of decades later that she would trade her cookies for fresh fruits and vegetables. Certain cookies had a higher fruit or vegetable to cookie ratio. She was the sole reason her elementary school started a no trade policy at lunch time.
So if you like start your own lifestyle change journey..I will cheer you on. Please remember it will always be your journey.
