I’m all about living consciously – making decisions with full attention to the moment I’m living in, as well as the way that moment is connected to the future.
When I finally saw the connection between my momentary urges for foodication (medicating through food) and the ultimate result in my body, I changed my weight permanently.
I’m focused on a lifestyle that ends the lease on weight loss and OWNS it instead. I emphasize making my own decisions instead of going with the crowd. I don’t like being a “sheeple.”
I’m convinced accepting the norm, programmed by the media, advertising and fashion industries, means lots of excess weight and fat in our lives.
Soda Consumption is Directly Connected to U.S. Obesity Epidemic
Case in Point: McDonald’s new Sweet Iced Tea commercial where the woman has been sipping tea so long, she’s developed a tan line across her chin.
Yowza!
My first reaction was: “that’s the stupidest commercial I ever saw!”
No one would drink that much, right?
But…
On Saturday I was following my son around the mall (This is non-stalker activity. You see, he was shopping for something, I have the wallet.)
Right in front of me were two women with huge (I’m talking 54 ounces or so) buckets of soft drink. I thought of the commercial as I began real stalker activity and followed them. The straws NEVER LEFT THEIR MOUTHS in the next 32 minutes!!
I watched as they sipped while walking, whipping through racks of clothes, trying on shoes, and buying cosmetics. They talked to each other the whole time, still sipping.
They were beautiful girls, completely unconscious about the result of their actions as they wandered through sheeple territory. I felt very sad as I watched them mindlessly sipping their futures away.
But then, I wondered… what came first?
Maybe that McDonald’s commercial isn’t just Mickey D’s wishful programming telling us “See how cool it is to drink cheap tea loaded with 60 grams of sugar all day! How addicted can we get you?”
Maybe McDonald’s merely watches our activity at the mall to find out what’s important to us!
WHOA!
GIRLS!
PUT DOWN THE PACIFIERS… NOW!
I didn’t yell it. But I so wanted to.
Very true…what WE do…our habits I truly believe influence what companies offer…good or bad. It begins with the consumers, we stop…they stop offering it.
Good point, we are more powerful than we think, especially when we stop following the crowd. I often think, if we just stopped feeding our children cruddy food, that would start a revolution! Corporate food would have to hear that.
I agree that corporate food is going to be selling what they think people want to buy. Sweet tea is one of my pet peeves. Tea is such a great, good tasting, calorie free drink, yet so many people want to add all that sugar to it. I have been in restaurants that assume if you order iced tea, you want sweet tea. If you want unsweetened you have to ask for it. It drives me crazy! I hope eventually more and more people will demand healthy options in food, and things will change.
Oh I am so glad you said, “what came first the chicken or the egg”…there is no doubt that Corporations are always looking to be the supply to our demand. And they spend millions on research to be the competition to beat.
This cupcake craze has the potential to be the worst example of food makers with NO CONSCIENCE. Do an online search of cupcake images and you will see MAGNIFICENT ADORABLE cupcakes that are nothing but food coloring, white flour, sugar and more sugar and fat. GOOD LUCK!
Soon there will be doughnuts that look like cupcakes, because that is all that is missing…deepfrying.