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We want quick and convenient. We want it now! We prefer value and quantity. In general, we are a lazy and impatient nation.

As an obese nation, we choose motorized scooters because we are too fucking lazy to walk. Have you ever looked in the baskets of those scooters? Most of the time I’m sure you’ll find pork rinds, insulin prescriptions and Cambridge Lights.

We try a few quick fix diets and see results for only a short period of time and we give up. “It just doesn’t work!” we scream. We opt for quick relief and that includes weight loss surgery and diet pills.

We don’t have time to cook a “real” dinner, so we choose drive-thru garbage like McDonald’s and Burger King to poison our bodies and our children.

We whine and complain that our lives are miserable because we are fat and obese… YET, we do not do anything about it. Instead we sit on the couch or recliner all day long, stuffing Little Debbie Cosmic Brownies in our mouths and cursing our life.

It’s just so fucking unfair. We have a list of reasons that prevent us from taking sustainable action.

• My genetics are whack. It’s the family curse.
• I can’t afford a gym membership.
• I’ll look like a jack ass when or if I walk or attempt to jog along side the road.
• People will laugh at me.
• It’s too expensive to buy fresh foods and they take too long to cook!
• I’ll fail once again. I’m a LOSER and I’m not worth it.
• My spouse doesn’t support me.
• I can’t eat healthy – I have to cook for my children!
• I have bad knees and there’s no way I can workout.
• It’s almost [ Valentine's Day, Easter, my birthday, Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc. ] and it would be too hard to commit.
• I’ll start TOMORROW… No, the day after that… Wait! The day after that…
• I have thyroid problems. So does Oprah! So it’s a real issue!
• I’ve tried so many times and failed before. Why would this time be different?
• I’ll just resign myself to being a fat ass for the rest of my life.

It’s just so fucking unfair.

Stop with the excuses.

Put an end to this never ending cycle of bullshit. You do not need weight loss surgery or diet pills. You do not need designer foods or a gym membership. You know what you have to do to get healthy and get the weight off. It’s not rocket science. Shut the voice up in your head that feeds this shit to you.

I’ve personally told all of the above excuses to myself at one time or another through the years and they were all bullshit. Deep down I knew this. I do not tell myself this crap anymore.

NOW I tell myself things like this:

• I CAN do another set.
• No one wants this as much as I do.
• I refuse to lay down and die due to this monster they call obesity.
• I am a good person and I deserve this.
• My body wants me to treat it like a temple, so I WILL.
• I have patience. I have determination. I have the knowledge to succeed.
• If I work hard enough, I will achieve everything I want and more.
• I will be a role model to anyone that is afraid to go to the gym due to their weight.
• I will treat others as I wish to be treated.
• The way others act or treat me have no affect on my progress or my mission.
• My body is a soldier. It does as I order it to.

You can be a soldier too. You just have to WANT IT and DO IT.

TODAY IS YOUR DAY – if you don’t allow it to pass you by.

You can read Jody’s guest post from Truth2BeingFit.com here.

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Upon opening up CNN in my browser for my morning glimpse at the news, I once again was validated on my decision to NOT allow my children to eat fast food, particularly McDonald’s Chicken McNuggets.

What the fuck is wrong with this company? Serving children chemicals found in silly putty. Seriously?

Parents, PLEASE take a stand and find alternatives to serving your children this crap. You can do what I do, and just make homemade nuggets using ground chicken and homemade breadcrumbs. Yes, it takes longer to make than buying this crap, but at least you know what is in it!

Link to original article over at CNN.

All McDonald’s nuggets are not created equal.

U.S. McNuggets not only contain more calories and fat than their British counterparts, but also chemicals not found across the Atlantic.

CNN investigated the differences after receiving a  blog comment asking about them.

American McNuggets (190 calories, 12 grams of fat, 2 grams of saturated fat for 4 pieces) contain the chemical preservative tBHQ, tertiary butylhydroquinone, a petroleum-based product. They also contain dimethylpolysiloxane, “an anti-foaming agent” also used in Silly Putty.

By contrast, British McNuggets (170 calories, 9 grams of fat, 1 gram of saturated fat for 4 pieces) lists neither chemical among its ingredients.

“I would certainly choose the British nuggets over the American” says Ruth Winter, author of  “A Consumer’s Dictionary of Food Additives.”

McDonald’s says the differences are based on the local tastes: In the United States, McNuggets are coated and then cooked, in the United Kingdom, they are cooked and then coated. As a result, the British McNuggets absorb less oil and have less fat.

“You would find that if you looked at any of our core food items. You’d see little, regional differences,” says Lisa McComb, who handles global media relations for McDonald’s, which has more than 32,000 restaurants in 117 countries. “We do taste testing of all our food items on an ongoing basis.”

One apparent difference is only a matter of labeling, according to McComb. U.K. McNuggets list ground celery and pepper, which are labeled simply as “spices” in the United States, she says.

Marion Nestle, a New York University professor and author of “What to Eat,” says the tertiary butylhydroquinone and dimethylpolysiloxane in the McNuggets probably pose no health risks. As a general rule, though, she advocates not eating  any food with an ingredient you can’t pronounce.

Dimethylpolysiloxane is used as a matter of safety to keep the oil from foaming, McComb says. The chemical is a form of silicone also used in cosmetics and Silly Putty. A review of animal studies by The World Health Organization found no adverse health effects associated with dimethylpolysiloxane.

TBHQ is a preservative for vegetable oils and animal fats, limited to .02 percent of the oil in the nugget. One gram (one-thirtieth of an ounce) can cause “nausea, vomiting, ringing in the ears, delirium, a sense of suffocation, and collapse,” according to “A Consumer’s Dictionary of Food Additives.”

In 2003, McDonald’s launched smaller, all-white-meat McNuggets after a federal judge dubbed the food “a McFrankenstein creation of various elements not utilized by the home cook.” Among the ingredients that remained in the new McNuggets: tBHQ and dimethylpolysiloxane.

Christopher Kimball, the founder and publisher of Cook’s Illustrated magazine and host of the syndicated cooking show America’s Test Kitchen, says he suspects these chemicals are required for the nuggets to hold their shape and texture after being extruded into nugget-shaped molds.

“The regulations in Europe, in general, around food are much stricter than the U.S.,” Kimball says.

Link to original article over at CNN.

While there appears to be “no adverse health effects associated with dimethylpolysiloxane,” why would you knowingly give this to your children?! It also doesn’t mean that there will be no health effects in the future. I do not want to be one of those parents that finds out after the fact that all along it causes some disease or disorder in my child.

It’s sad to me that a corporation like McDonald’s had to be FORCED to change it’s Chicken McNugget recipe by a federal judge. What will it take for them to do the RIGHT THING and eliminate these poisons and preservateves from their products?

I know. All of us refusing to buy their products.