Okay so seeing this blog is about battling weight loss and I haven't really spoken too much about it I have decided I am going to talk about the issues of being a young adult and trying to lose weight.
So everyone knows that as an American young adult (includes, adolescents, teens, college students) your diet is far from healthy as it can get. There is a lot of socializing and with that comes food. Food like fries, ice cream sundaes, candy, fried dough, pizza, etc. Well let me tell you all something...IT IS NEAR IMPOSSIBLE FOR A YOUNG ADULT TO LOSE WEIGHT AND NOT BE A SOCIAL OUTCAST! I know from experience. No one wants to hang with the kid who has to eat a salad while the friends are eating like a double cheeseburger with extra bacon. In America diets have such a negative impact in the world. I remember in high school my biology teacher asked me what my diet was and I thought she was calling me fat she then explained to us in the science fields diet isn't like I am going to have some water and salad it is what you eat. Like a low sodium diet isn't saying you have high cholesterol it is saying you don't want all that salt. I feel if America turned the negativity away from "dieting" and STOP coming up with ridiculously UNSAFE fad diets and just removed the garbage from the over processed food or oh here is a good idea GET OFF OUR GLUTEUS MAXIMUS AND COOK RATHER THAN ORDER FOOD OFF OUR COMPUTER OR WHATEVER! We would be fine. I understand occasionally there are times you don't want to cook then don't cook. Eat left overs. The benefits you will soon see is the weight you lost your wallet quickly gains. YAY!
Anyways this isn't about America as a whole it is about the Young Adults. Well I blame well all active parties in a young adults life. I am sorry parents you are somewhat part of that as well although not completely. I mainly blame schools.Well I can't blame schools right now I am going to start at the top and work down. In 2011 Congress issued a bill declaring pizza is a vegetable so it can stay a main part of school lunches. Are you kidding me? Pizza...the thing that doctors want you to stay away from is now a "vegetable". So now we have all these people with high cholesterol running around stating they "eat their vegetables" well SHAME ON YOU CONGRESS! Shame on you for not caring about the health of America's future and shame on you for making pizza a vegetable. Anyways I will continue back to schools. Through the year's as I went through school and seen my brothers go through school I have looked at the menu and even though they are trying to get better the menu is carbs on top of carbs. Sure they will give you some fish if that is what you want to call it but it is CAKED in bread crumbs and I want to say fried even though they are "baking" everything now but then with the fish comes corn, mashed potatoes or tater tots some fruit juice, and milk. Well, there isn't any nutrients in all of that, its just filling to make the children not complain for about the next 2 hours or so. In high school it is even worse. You have burgers, pizza, sandwiches, fried chicken, etc. I mean I was lucky and had a salad bar in my high school, but I will be honest no one really used it but the teachers and the popular girls who were constantly on fad diets. Anyways I understand schools have a budget for food but they are not helping the budget of obesity in America for young adults. The next thing I want to hit is the removal of Health Class. My generation was probably only lucky enough to have it in Middle School. But playing dodge ball everyday isn't going to teach me how to eat right so I can stay full and active like when I am in gym class. Some children's parents don't know this stuff and so it is important they get the info somewhere. Now I am not saying go into full detail with each child and create a meal plan I am saying start the education in kindergarten so they adapt the proper eating and will grow happy and healthy. The next on my blame list is unfortunately parents. Now I know you can't control little Timmy from buy $20 worth of crap at the corner store with his friends and eating it before he gets home, however YOU control what comes into the house. If you aren't buying fruits and vegetables and meat to cook, but instead overly processed food like frozen mac & cheese dinner or hamburger helper or whatever else they sell to a working mother then SHAME ON YOU! I am sorry but little Timmy shouldn't eat that on a daily or weekly basis. I know cooking is draining, time consuming and not many want to do it. HOWEVER if you plan and prep it will be so much easier on you and Timmy won't have junk on top of junk and maybe see his 25th birthday. In the frozen dinners and prepared meals are TONS of sodium and other things our body DOES NOT need. Next time you go to buy something just glance at the nutritional facts, trust me you will put it down and make it yourself. I know from experience while living with my grandmother we ate already prepared food 2 times the entire time everything else was home made and I felt so much better. I lost 30 pounds without even really trying, I wasn't as tired, and to top it off I felt the energy I had when I was a small child.
Anyways I don't mean to attack everyone I did. Being a young adult and trying to lose weight is really hard. You are most likely still with your parents so you can't really bring in what you would like, but you can ask your parents if they could get some stuff for you, I am sure they won't decline the offer. When I reached college I started bringing my own lunch to school. I was tired of the unsatisfying food they had. Some people don't have that option so I would say pick from the best thing there. Break your food down. If you can't choose healthy because everything is garbage don't eat all of it. Listen to your body it will say when it is full. Also America START COOKING THEY HAVE SLOW COOKERS FOR A REASON!!! I can not emphasize the cooking I can't.
Anyways this was going to be a good post and sort of turned into a rant with how ridiculous everything is becoming so I apologize. Since this is yesterdays blog I am not cheating you out of today's blog and will do that when I come home. I love you guys. And please remember Stay Beautiful.
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