If It Was Easy Everyone Would be Thin

Sometimes I wish the government would give everyone one pill a day and that would be the total calories, vitamins and nutrition that you would need so I was not faced with the indecision of it all. Food sometimes SUCKS and losing weight is HARD. Why is it so hard:

1. Food is love/reward in our culture. Parents give treats for doing things well, we give ourselves treats on the weekends for a long week of doing good.

2. Habits are hard to break. Habits take weeks or months to form and it is difficult to change a lifestyle that you are accustomed to.

3. Convenience and time makes us lazy. With a McDonalds on every corner and frozen pizza dinners filling up our freezers it is just too easy to not eat healthy.

4. Our culture is against us with the “clean your plate” mentality and the fact that restaurant portions are triple what you should eat.

5. We can have whatever we want when we want it. Back in the olden days there was a great amount of expending energy (hunter/gatherer) to get food, Now we live in a land of plenty and eating is as simple as walking to the fridge.

6. Food is a social mechanism. In America we very rarely eat alone so most times we are eating in a group situation where the group influences where, what, and how much we eat.

7. A lot of times taste trumps nutrition. Most industrialized food that we consider tasting good is empty calories. Also it is hard because the cheaper food is eaten more because the healthy food is expensive and time consuming to prepare.

Food sometimes sucks!