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Don’t worry…The Fall is going to kill you!
By Keith | December 8, 2009
Sometimes this most compelling and profound thoughts come from the most random and innocuous sources.
I overheard two people [women actually] talking today in the grocery store while I was shopping for Paleo. During their conversation they had mentioned that they worried about how they were going to fit into a certain pair of jeans that they had bought at Kohl s’ just recently. I wish I could have told you that they were heavy or large, but they weren’t. At a glance you would have thought they were in pretty good shape. Albeit they were covered up with sweaters and such it was difficult to tell. They both had young children in carts, so the kids were under 5 years old. The kids seem well adjusted and were behaving like kids do…filled with sugar. The conversation seem to be going on for a while because the same two were still talking about this as they moved from the deli, to the seafood and then finally to the meat aisle.
I noticed that in the cart were typical non paleo grainish type foods: bread, cereal, soda, chips, you know the same things that most Americans have in their homes at one time or another.
I moved passed them with out anymore thought. Until I came to the end and at the check out they were still at it about not the jeans, but getting through the holidays with out gaining weight!
I thought to my self…they have no idea what is going on. My initial reaction was that they are sabotaging themselves with out even knowing. [I wish I would have had a business card a that point] Oh well… missed opportunity.
On the way home in the car their conversation reminded me of the Butch Cassidy and the Sun dance Kid movie where Paul Newman and Robert Redford are running from some posse or someone and they end up at the edge of a cliff . Butch turns to Sundance and says “I can’t swim!”….Sundance responds with “Don’t worry about drowning, the fall is going to kill you!” And they jump….
Most people are worried about how they are going to lose weight and fit in their cloths when they have no idea what is really happening to their bodies [and their childrens] by the way they are eating!
Topics: Articles, Cynergy Central | 4 Comments »
December 8th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
Your story reminds me of something I witnessed this past Sunday. I was at BJ’s stocking up on Paleo supplies when I passed a mother with her daughter. The little girl saw a fresh pineapple and cantelope in my cart and said “mommy, I want a pineapple”. The mother said “it’s too expensive”. The child then said “I want a cantelope”. The mother said “they’re not in season”. The very next aisle I heard that same mother say “I have a coupon for Oreo’s, go find the Oreo’s”. Really mom? RUFKM?
By the way, my pineapple and cantelope together were only about $5 and the Oreo’s were $8 or $9.
Sad.
December 9th, 2009 at 10:47 am
GREAT Post Keith!
Ya, it sucks when your red party dress is a bit tight. It is gonna really suck when your doctor tells you that your are a Diabetic! Or that you are having a massive Heart Attack! What you eat right now…directly effects your medical record for the rest of your life.
EAT REAL FOOD & CrossFit!
December 9th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
I wonder what those supermarket girls would say if you could show them this:
http://library.crossfit.com/free/pdf/CFJ_Games09_BeautyInStrength.pdf
Photo array of the women of the 2009 CrossFit Games.
December 9th, 2009 at 6:15 pm
what a great link Chip! I love that!!