by Julia Havey, DTG Master Motivator
I think that it’s high time that we declare our freedom from extra weight, so I proclaim today as Fat Independence Day!
Throughout history when Independence was declared, a protest or symbolic event usually took place. The Colonists had their Boston Tea Party; now we overfed Americans need to dump our sugary soft drinks & high fructose corn syrup-laced beverages into the nearest harbor!
I want everyone to bring along the 53-gallon barrel of soft drinks – the amount of soft drinks that the average American gulps each year! If you think that we would get arrested for polluting the water, well… isn’t it worse to pour millions of gallons of soft drinks into our bodies?
Get serious about declaring your independence from fat and dump ALL of the sugar-filled soft drinks and other HFCS-laced beverages in your house down the drain! In your personal Declaration of Fat Independence you must state that you will no longer consume this junk.
Granted, this won’t have as dramatic of an effect as it would if we all met in Boston and poured our soda into the harbor, but I don’t want anyone to get arrested for polluting the water… nor do I want anyone to continue drinking it!
Know the enemy
I recently spotted a news story about a group that was formed to study:
- Role of hydration in nutrition
- Malnutrition in the developing world
- Sweeteners and beverages
- Fruits and vegetables as beverages
- Nutrition and beverage education
- Community outreach
The Beverage Institute is the organization behind this study. At first glance, it would appear that they are really looking out for the health of the world. But on closer look, their press release stated:
“The research under the direction of the Beverage Institute for Health & Wellness will be determined through a coordinated effort by the Institute's advisory council and a team of scientists and nutritionists at the Institute. The research agenda will focus on significant health issues across the world and how beverages could help address these health and nutrition problems.”
Hmmm, there’s one little problem here. This organization is a part of the Coca Cola Company. Do you think they are really looking for ways to help us declare our independence from soft drinks or to increase our dependence on them?
Declaring soft drinks off-limits is a good start. But we also need to establish our independence from hotdogs, pizza, candy, french fries and other foods or drinks that are calorie rich and nutrition poor.
If you would like to personalize your own Declaration of Fat Independence, feel free to print the following and make it yours! And please accept my apologies to our founding fathers for having taken creative license with the Declaration of Independence.
When in the Course of weight loss it becomes necessary for a person to dissolve the fattening foods which have added excess weight to their body and desire a fit, firm and healthy body to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all bodies are created equal, and able to be empowered by their Master Motivator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are: a more Healthful Life, Leanness and the pursuit of Fit Frame. That to secure these rights, Diet-to-Go is instituted among dieters, desiring to eat better and live longer, That whenever any Form of Unhealthy Foods becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new Lifestyle, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that diets long established should not be changed for fads and overnight causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while on a fad diet. But when a long train of soft drinks, candy, doughnuts, pizza and fast food, pursuing invariably makes the person Obese, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such unhealthy foods aside, and to provide new diet for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these frustrated dieters; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former eating habits.
The history of the present epidemic of Obesity is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over our bodies. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the Obese People of the United States of America, here Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good Overweight people, solemnly publish and declare, That we are mad and aren’t going to take it anymore and of Right ought to be Free and Independent from FAT, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the Junk Food Kingdom, and that all eating between them and the State of Obesity, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Fat Free and Independent Dieters, they have full Power to levy War against FAT, conclude Healthy eating, contract Peace of mind, establish a healthy lifestyle, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent persons may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our diets, our Fitness and our sacred Motivation.
your John Hancock goes here
Julia is the author of the bestselling weight loss books, Awaken the Diet Within (Warner Books) and The Vice Busting Diet (St. Martin's Press). She has been endorsed by Oprah's Dr. Mehmet Oz and Dr. David L. Katz! Having lost and kept off 130 pounds, Julia not only offers effective advice, but she knows firsthand that her advice works! Learn more at www.ViceBusting.com
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