How many times have you been out for dinner or over to a friends/relative's house, and someone trys to push some high caloric food source on you? "Come on, a little can't hurt you!" is usually the statement that is made to you when you first protest and say "no".
There is a certain "comfort" factor for overweight people eating weight-damaging food sources to have other overweight people eating those same food sources. There is less guilt involved, meaning that if everyone is eating that chocolate dessert, then it must be okay, right? One or several people taking a pass on this, and stating that they are trying to lose weight demeans the person's control ability that is eating the food source that they really should not be.
Please do not feel like a party pooper to say "no" despite the peer pressure. Stick to your guns and do not be made to feel that you are a leper by skipping dessert. We ask our children not to succumb to peer pressure as that relates to alcohol and drugs. Similarly, we shoudl not succumb to peer pressure to do eating behaviors that will hurt our health and happiness.
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There is no word of the day. I am glad to have finally gotten a chance to read the blog site. I will try to promote as much as I can amongst my friends and peers.
Brian
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