The 120lbs and Pregnant McDonald's French Fries Diet

Appeared August 22, 2006

May you truly realize God’s blessings and the wonderful positive things in your life.

You know when you live the lifestyle that I do, which is very wrapped up in work and not particularly interested in going to that many public places, especially things like shopping, it’s easy to forget how far out of whack the average person is.

My wife picked up a pair of sneakers for me today and relayed a story to me about the cashiers at the shoe store. It seems that the first cashier was chiding the other one for talking so much about McDonald’s French Fries that she had given up all hope and gone out to get some to eat for her lunch. Now neither of these women were over 120lbs. Yet both of them were talking about being on a diet. The one eating the fries was also evidently pregnant and blaming her co-worker for not sharing the burden of eating the fries.

When you start getting deep into information on health, strength, etc., you tend to think that everybody else is playing along. It’s very easy to lose touch with the fact that the average person doesn’t know squat about health, exercise, food, etc. They might think they know a little, but they don’t understand enough of it to apply and generally what they do know is junk science. It still amazes me that at 120lbs your self image can be so completely out of whack that you need to be constantly on a diet. It amazes me that anyone would still eat McDonald’s French fries. I’m not against the french fry itself, but that’s not even an edible food substance and if you’re paying even a little bit of attention to health information you should know that. The reason my wife told me the story in the first place was because of the absolute idiocy of someone being on a diet and eating McDonald’s french fries while pregnant. It would be healthier for the baby to take a spoonful of toxic waste.

People labor under the same false assumptions about exercise all of the time and to see proof of that all you have to do is visit a local gym. You only need about 60 seconds to be overwhelmed by the lack of intelligent work going on. That’s why all of our products contain both basic and advanced level information. Many of the goals and concepts are very advanced. However the style of information delivery, the basic exercises and the beginner details are all there as well. This way everybody… rank beginner or advanced hard core man both benefit.

What’s even more amazing is how simple and achievable basic exercise and reasonable nutrition are. Lift heavy covering the basic structures of the body. Use reasonable volume. Lift some odd stuff so you can learn to actually apply the strength from those barbells. Find some type of conditioning that you like, that you can go very hard at for 10 to 20 minutes, occasionally longer. Go for a walk, maintain the ability to move and be mobile. If you can’t pronounce it (manmade products), don’t eat it. If it didn’t grow out of the ground or come from an animal, don’t eat it. If it comes in plastic and has a shelf life, long enough that you have to actually look up how long it is, don’t eat it. Get adequate fluids and sleep.

The above paragraph summarizes the entirety of health and strength. Is there more detail? Absolutely, but that’s the basics. It’s the basics for those just interested in health as well. For those interested in more than simply being able to get off the couch. You should all remember that most of those you know don’t have any understanding of these simple concepts. They think they can have a little gastric by-pass surgery, pop some Hoodia or Zantrex…. Or whatever this weeks popular diet pill is named… and voila! They are thin and healthy.

Thin isn’t healthy. Healthy is healthy. Good strength, good mobility, good endurance, pain-free, sound nutrition. It doesn’t come out of pills, be that the diet or steroid kind. It comes when you actually do the work. Keep it simple and don’t get side tracked by all the snake oil out there.