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It's Friday............. Posted by Me on 5/4/2018, 9:20 am Everywhere you look, commercials, ads in magazines or newspapers. pop up ads, restaurants, theaters, grocery stores, ect. They make the "Weekend" seem like it is a free for all. No consequencess. Party as hard as you want. You deserve it. Eat as much as you want. You worked hard all week. Drink as much as you want. You deserve to forget your cares for a few days. That's all fine and good but...... They stop there. Monday always, always comes. We have to be accountable to ourselves come Monday. But when it comes to our health, that is who matters the most. We can lie to people all day long, or not lie, just not say, But that only hurts our selves. We just have to make choices. What do we want to look at in the mirror, come Monday morning? Someone who cares more about their health, or "I deserve this" mentality. We DESERVE health. We have tools to do this. We just have to choose to use them.

Re: It's Friday............. Posted by Pam T on 5/4/2018, 7:51 pm, in reply to "It's Friday............." Close your eyes during food commercials. They won't bother you if you don't see them. Don't look at magazines right now. They are total food porn. Drive with your windows up and recirculating AC on! No fast food smells. Don't go to the movies. Popcorn smell is hard to resist and we are all conditioned to eat it when watching a movie. Just keep telling yourself, "This is what I am doing right now. The food will always be there. I am not missing out on anything I can't have later when I am at my goal.Food is fuel, not entertainment."

Amen!!!! Posted by Me on 5/5/2018, 9:41 am, in reply to "Re: It's Friday............." The hardest one for me was (and at times will still tug on my mind) is when they come out with something "New" Not "New and Improved" because most of the time that is a lie. They try to make you feel "Left out" and not part of the "Cool Kids" But a new chocolate filled with such and such or a new chip flavor or fast food item on their menu. It took me a while to figure out, "If it is good enough now it will be there later, if it sucked, then I didn't need it anyway" They are on to me now. Now they try to make me hurry and try it. "Limited Time Only" Or "Just for a Short While" Or "Supplies Limited." I don't fall for their tricks anymore. And it is "tricks" it is their job, at any cost, to make us buy it. It is up to us to say, "No"

The mirror!! Posted by Yvonne on 5/4/2018, 10:23 am, in reply to "It's Friday............." I just love to read your posts, Me. It gives me perspective. The trillion dollar food industry is looking out for themselves and not us (those who partake of their goods). You are so right about the images. They always have these skinny people eating, laughing, and supposedly enjoying the "atmosphere" of congeniality. Yet, there are no obese people ever pictured in these commercials, ads, restaurants, magazines. That should tell us something. I look in the mirror every day now and hope to see what I want to see——a healthier and thinner me. It is MY choice to either fall for the false advertising and commercials or keep going with the true Cambridge. I choose Cambridge.

Drug pushers Posted by Pam T on 5/4/2018, 7:48 pm, in reply to "The mirror!!" That's what the food advertising industry really is. The lie being told that you can eat like a fool with no consequences is shameful.

Re: It's Friday............. Posted by MaryL on 5/4/2018, 10:07 am, in reply to "It's Friday............." Hi Me. What a great post! Thank you.

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