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I was watching yet another morning show urging everyone to join in the lose-weight-now! hysteria sweeping the airwaves. The best infomercial exercise products! Cutting calories while keeping huge portion sizes! Five minute exercises guaranteed to flatten your belly!

Hey, weren’t these the same people who clobbered us with cookie recipes a month ago?

We are a yo yo nation of weight watchers. I suspect we are the only place on the planet where over eating is a cultural norm. In a way, I am almost ashamed by the endless aisles of choices that assail me in the supermarket. The effort and enterprise invested in bringing us to this point serves a profit motivated incentive, not nutritional, not humanly beneficial.

So we are obese from option overload. How many different brands and varieties of potato chips really need to exist in the universe? Why must I feel compelled to taste test them all to find the truly best bag? Are you addicted to them like I am?

Thankfully, I get up and run every other morning whether or not it is cookie platter season or not. The discipline it takes to do that trickles down into eating right and treating my body respectfully. It also takes me away from the television screen where most of the people are who are busy ordering Shake Weights for $29.95 for a limited time only.

Weight Loss by Walking

I am willing to bet you that if you decided to put one hour of walking in your day no matter what, that determination would affect your whole attitude towards treating your body well. You would feel better and become addicted to that feeling. Eventually that will overpower your desire to eat randomly and recklessly.

Prove me wrong.

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