On my mind

Titles: That's the one thing I struggled with in high school. Titling my paper. I never knew how to capture my whole paper into one short title. I have that problem now too. What to title my post or even bigger, what to title my blog. And when I started thinking about what to title my blog (The Get Fit Momma) it all came down to my goals for me and MY FAMILY. I shared with you in my very first post that I have struggled with weight since I was a little girl. And now that I have a family, I realize how desperate I am to make sure my family is healthy and fit. I have been so afraid of my children becoming obese as they get older. Not because they eat terribly but because it's such a huge epidemic in America. I hear about childhood obesity all the time. And it's sad. To me, childhood obesity is caused completely by the parent. A child learns to eat by what the parent provides for the child. If you start throwing Happy Meals in your kids face every night instead of fresh foods, the child learns to eat that way.

What gets me fired up even more is how hard it is to find healthy food in public. We hear how much America is overweight and we all need to work out and shop local, but we allow food chains that sell saturated fat and high calorie foods to be on every corner. We think adding calorie counts next to Double Quarter Pounder cheeseburgers is going to help people make informed choices. Well I don't buy it. Like other things in life, people will become desensitized to the calories and choose what sounds good at the time. How about this, if it's so bad for us to eat, take it OFF THE MENU! Why are we allowing food chains to continue to supply terrible food to America rather than saying "Hey McD, that's too much fat and calories for people. You need to change the item or somehow find a way to lower the calories."

I've heard people say that other countries living in poverty look at overweight Americans as rich and healthy because they have enough food to make them big. Well my friends, that's just the opposite. You see, in America we make the processed FAT foods easy to get and cheap to buy. And we make the healthy fresh foods more expensive. So people that don't have a lot of money tend to buy the worst foods just to be able to provide enough meals for their families to get by. It's messed up. So then I start thinking about where it all went wrong and I think I can see it in the marketing images below. You see a pattern?