A recent Gallup poll (2009) shows that 63.1% of adults in the USA are overweight. That means that nearly 40% of adults are missing out on the biggest trend in America. Sure, becoming overweight is not easy. If it were easy then every ‘body’ would be fat already. But becoming overweight — and staying that way — can be done. Like any large goal, it takes discipline, dedication, and adherence to habits that may not feel intuitive or natural.
Who has the discipline to become what the kids affectionately call, a “fatty”? You might be surprised, because it’s not always the most driven, most self-serving, and vain people who will make the efforts necessary for extreme weight gain. It’s the people who can see beyond the immediate perks of getting to dominate an airplane arm rest, or the ease of having a built-in bookrest, or the near-celebrity status of being instantly recognized as “American” no matter where they’re traveling. The people who succeed in becoming overweight, or better still, morbidly obese, are focused solely on that one, big goal — livin’ large.
The following are suggestions for ‘becoming all that you can be’, weight-wise. One reminder: Be easy on yourself, set attainable goals and reach them, then you can feel successful and expand upon that success.
Do:
- Drive instead of walk. Park as close as possible to any and every door. If a good parking spot is not open, just wait for one. Sit in your car with the motor running and wait. Good things are worth waiting for and a convenient parking spot is a good thing.
- Turn to food as a crutch and as a reward. The world is not fair and no one understands what you’re going through. Food is always there for you, never questioning, never judging. You love food, and food loves you, but you must keep the relationship alive.
- Buy only those clothes made of stretch fabrics because they are gentler on your skin. Your skin is your body’s largest organ – doesn’t it deserve gentle treatment?
- Maintain a sedentary lifestyle. Most office jobs are good; some, like computer programming, are ideal for minimum physical movement and therefore maximum calorie retention.
Do Not:
- Measure portion sizes or count calories. The only time that math should be used at a table is when gambling.
- Pay attention to what you’re eating while you’re eating it. Multitask, multitask, multitask. You’ve got a lot on your plate figuritively and literally. You know how to eat well enough that you don’t have to pay attention to it. You could be playing a video game, checking email, watching TV and solving crimes.
- Give in to your body’s cravings for physical mobility. Those cravings can be beaten down and with repeated diminishments, those cravings will nearly disappear.
- Give up. You can become fat, you can become obese. It’s within you. It may seem difficult when you first start but the pounds will come, and then they will add up or even mutliply. The more weight you gain, the easier it is to maintain.
- President Obama recently remarked that “Americans are known for their strength, resilience, and perserverance”. We all have seen China rising as a global power and threatening to usurp the USA’s top position, and as a nation, we may each have a civic duty to help regain our country’s rank in the hierachy by living larger, as large as possible.
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