When did the world, specifically America, get so “Welp, that’s just the way it is!?!”? Hands up to the side in a shrug of “What do you expect me to do about it?”  I just read a headline that if America doesn’t change the way it eats, that 50% of the population will be obese. FIF-TEE-PER-CENT!  Meanwhile, we are pulling through Burger King grabbing impossible burgers thinking for sure that’ll solve it. Wake the fuck up people. 

Now before you get all bent about me ranting about obesity, this really is more about the causation therein of said epidemic. For whatever reason, less and less people stand up for anything anymore. I mean sure, you can get some people riled up about the topic du jour at election time, but on the daily “I’m just going to go about my business, this doesn’t affect me.” is the default. Don’t worry though there’s plenty of outrage and blame floating around in the American cosmos, with one usually following the other. 

I lied. I am going to focus on eating, because, well that’s my lane. Feel free to apply this same logic to other parts of your world and I dare things not to improve. The PF cure for things is hard and will take a shift in your daily planning but if you apply it daily it works. Are you ready?  It’s called discomfort. Aka work. Aka doing what you already know you should do anyways but don’t. It’s called balance and it’s called choices.  

As far as how this applies to the obesity epidemic it means less convenience and more cooking. It means not buying shit out of boxes and it means that every meal isn’t a bacanal celebration. I love candy. If I buy candy I eat all of it. Therefore. I try and not buy candy all the time. Last night I knew we didn’t have much in the vegetables to eat. So, novel concept, I stopped at the store, bought some bok choy and other stuff.  I quartered it, put it in a hot skillet for 10 min and tossed in a little soy sauce, leftover steamed broccoli and some cooked pasta. TA DAH!! Marginally tasty fuel .

Yes the above example seems a bit watered down relative to the rant at the beginning of this post and bok choy isn’t hella controversial but this shit pisses me off. People act like they are powerless against their world.  That since the grocery store is filled with soft drinks and highly processed everything, that they will just have to accept what’s given to them because the alternative is too much work or they don’t know how to cook or whatever.  You have in your hand, a super computer that’s thousands of times more powerful than what sent the FUCKING SPACE SHUTTLE INTO ORBIT!  Google how to sauté and watch a video. Grill. Boil water for chris sakes and take some responsibility for  what you feed you and your family. 

Rant over. 

Use same logic to politics, working out and parenting. 

Merry Christmas. 

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