Food Pushers
You know who they are. It's the girl in the cube next to you who KNOWS you are trying to get healthy and lose fat but asks you to go to your favorite restaurant everyday for lunch. It's your husband who says he doesn't get to spend time with you anymore because you go to the gym so much, so just have a bowl of ice cream with me. It's your mom who only cares about you eating healthy when she is ALSO on a "diet."
There are so many food pushers in the world. It doesn't even have to be a person either. It can be situational. Many people feel as if they have to celebrate every holiday and occassion only with food. Let's look at the year:
Jan - New Years Eve
Feb - Valentines Day (candy everywhere for a week and the big romantic dinner)
March - Nothing too special unless it's Spring Break, a birthday, or anniversary
April - Easter
May - Cinco De Mayo and Memorial Day
June - Kids get out of school and graduation parties
July - Fourth of July
August - Again, insert birthdays and anniversaries here
September - Labor Day
October - Halloween
November - Thanksgiving
December - Christmas
Look at this! I'm telling you from my experience most people who suffer from being fat have troubles with every one of these holidays. Basically they blow it big time every month and wonder why they can't lose weight. This calendar doesn't even reflect your kid's friends' parties, co-worker parties at work, and the like.
Eventually you have to find a way to say no to all this. You have to let go of the idea you are being rude or hurting someone's feelings when you choose to EAT HEALTHY and EXERCISE. Why not just be a role model of how to live a long life? When did that become such a negative thing?
I bring this up because the Weight Watcher Boards are in a panic about the holidays. At PNP we are not allowed to freak out. We're making our plans because we realize that some holidays you can celebrate for a day and others don't matter enough to add the extra 1000 calories to our day.
Lastly, let me share with you a comment posted to another blog just yesterday that I found outstanding. I think it is perfect and representative of someone who has made a decision to truly change their life and be a real Phit-N-Phat Girl!!! I challenge you to be brave enough to stand up for yourself, live the life you really want to, and tell the food pushers no thank you...you choose an extra ten years added to the end of your life and smoking tops for the summer. :)
"I work at the most heavy eating nicely catered company out there - every event and meeting has catering. This ain't no wheat toast either - this is nice fat sweet danishes, freshly prepared chocolate chip cookies, etc., in an unlimited amount. Then, every day it's someone's birthday and there's a cake or something high calorie to eat. I personally am flying banners all over my work area that I am getting Phit and now, after a couple of months, they don't even ask me anymore. When one of the girls kind of made me feel bad, I looked at her with the sweetest face and smile and asked "Why do you care what I eat? I am trying to get in shape. Why don't you just support me?" She looked kind of shocked but she doesn't shove cake in my face anymore. LOL