It’s the Fourth of July, Eat Whatever You Want Your Health and Fitness

Jun 29

It’s the Fourth of July, Eat Whatever You Want

Like clockwork, every holiday, every year we get inundated with these healthy eating tips, from nosey, buttinsky do-gooders who want to ruin our fun. There are 365 days in a year and less than 10 real opportunities to enjoy holiday foods/parties, yet these no-fun allowed types cant leave us alone.

These pieces all start out with some variation of this line, Dont let the upcoming holiday weekend derail your diet, blah, blah, blah and the writer provides us with a variety of ways to ruin the enjoyment we get from, in the case of the Fourth of July, going to a holiday barbecue.

The most odious of these advice pieces profess to help you survive the holiday cook-out, as if you are on patrol in Afghanistan. The nonsense is priceless. Were given pearls of wisdom like, use smaller plates, pace yourself and eat slowly, skip crackers, chips and bread, and be careful what you drink. Then there is the always helpful reminder to eat the healthy foods available.

Really? At a barbecue? To these writers of this pap I say, Kiss my a$$.

Those of you who dont have an issue with food will go to your parties and enjoy yourselves. For those of you who are on a perpetual diet and who have been made to feel badly about yourself, do not pick a holiday or party occasion to start your diet. Dont view the Fourth of July barbecue as the time and place to try to make changes to your eating habits.

If you feel compelled to diet and embark on a routine of weight loss via food avoidance, start the day after the party, and use the next party as the reward for making changes. Dont fall for the load of BS that a moment on the lips results in a lifetime on the hips.

Diets dont work. Avoiding the foods you enjoy will not help you. Listening to the proponents of food avoidance will make you feel worse. There are ways to improve your eating habits, but following the advice found in these healthy eating lists is not the way to do it.

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