The latest episode of Losing it With Jillian had Jillian Michaels headed out to the Yavapai-Apache Nation in Camp Verde, Arizona to work with the Plunkett-Marquez family. Her approach to this situation seemed much different than usual. Though she was headed out to help the Plunkett-Marquez family, Jillian comes to realize that it’s not just the family, but the people, as a group, that would seem to have bad eating habits. In one example Losing it With Jillian brought to our attention was frybread, a deep fried bread that they later pour all kinds of yummy toppings on. Jillian herself was losing it when she saw how the group mind-set was when it came to eating.
In the process, Jillian upsets the entire tribe by tossing away their frybread. In their mind, food is never a thing to waste, though later Jillian is trying to explain it wasn’t really food she tossed, but poison! Jillian tries to get the tribal nation of peoples to show up for for a few events so she can educate the many, rather than the few. That didn’t go so well and I’m not sure exactly how many people were really in Camp Verde, but I don’t think it was an entire nation.
Jillian suddenly realizes she can’t take on an entire tribe but rather, she needs to focus on the individual family who have an important position within the community.
In the end, some of the tribe comes around to understanding where Jillian is coming from and Jillian returns in 6 weeks. The Plunkett-Marquez family have made amazing weight-loss transformations, despite the fact they didn’t focus on the family working out. Again, awesome and heart-warming transformations.
Cinema Static Opinion On ‘A People’ and Obesity:
At one point, it’s noted that the people eat bad foods for them because that’s all they’ve come to know. The camera angles and background visuals supported the premise that most of the Native American tribe that Jillian was visiting was overweight.
What was driven home for me was the fact that people can get into a rut and get comfortable with it. This episode drove home the premise it’s not just a single family, but many people who get into this rut. My first marriage was a serious eating rut. I loved the double giant Jack-In-The-Box burgers my wife brought home for dinner. Yumbo! Or the hot wings she’d pick up for me on Sundays. How could life be any better? Looking back, I ask how you can be any stupider? Well, weighing in at 230+ lbs and expanding with the universe wasn’t the best of plans. Overweight conditions create their own set of medical problems but when people are presented with the ramifications of what could happen to them, they tend to pay no heed.
Fast food joints make it way too easy to get greasy junk food into our systems and the system itself makes healthy alternatives almost too expensive to actually consider! It’s a shame. Cranking out a bag of chips is just lazy. Don’t take the bag with you, pour some in a small bowl and be done with them! Gads, I’ve known people to go through whole bags of chips and 2-liter sodas watching a movie. And they watch movies a lot. If you dwell on it, that can’t be good for you. And obese people are four times as likely to become arthritic! Eesh. Enough of that I told myself.
And oddly, being hungry is not an unnatural condition. If we ate every time we were hungry, well, for me, it’s not a good thing. Back in the day when I ate more crap, I found myself being hungry more often. It’s a condition like any other. One your body become acclimated to and develops with. Plain and simple. As you start eating less, the hunger pangs decrease and become more tolerable.
Running To Get Fit Isn’t Hard To Start
Bruce's first 5k - Santa Clarita Marathon
In July of 2009 I started running. I’d never run before that with any intent for conditioning. I had pretty bad allergies, asthma and a few other conditions. It seems that running has mostly fixed a few of my issues. And the rumor that running ruins your knees, would see, as has been pointed out for me, to be just about that… a wives tail or sorts. If you already had bad knees, they were going to go anyway it seems. If you have good knees, it would seem that running won’t ruin them. In fact, some of the latest reports are indicating otherwise.
Now the report is that vigorous exercise like running may help prevent issues with the knees. Yep, it’s gone against everything I’ve ever heard too. After I heard this, I started to reflect on where I exactly heard this expert advice that running ruins knees. Seems I’ve only heard it from friends & peers who it seems, may have been passing on what they’ve heard from friends. Huh. Running it seems, looks to actually build up the knees and other things and also helps drop the mortality rate by 39%. (Not sure how you measure dying, since we all do it! But that’s their number!)
Me, I started getting it together with running in small steps. And it’s not running, it’s jogging. So don’t scare yourself with the idea it’s an all-out run. Nice gentle jogging is what I’m talking about. To get started running, all it took was a 1 block lap. Going around my block as a .56 mile endeavor. At first I timed it and then I wanted to beat that time. Then I started to run a bit during that lap and then I found I could run the 1/2 mile lap without issue. I then wanted a longer distance to challenge myself with. I found a nice 1 mile route. It’s taken a year, but with a mildly dedicated training routine, I’ve hit the 9 mile routes and having fun.
Running does a few odd things for me. It’s almost changed my craving for crap food to the point that I don’t want it. I cleanse myself out with drinking a ton more water than I used to and running makes it so you can actually kind of live it up once every now and then when it does come to munching.
I’m not saying running is the right answer for anyone. Hell, I never thought it was the thing for me either but with a good, consistent & slow build up of my training has proven it otherwise to me. I’ve been impressed not only with myself and the fact that I could do this, but in what it’s done for me. Yea, I’m pretty proud that after all my life, I’ve learned that I can head out that door and know that 5, 6 or 7 miles is easily doable, and then some. All from a person who has never run once in his life up until ’09.
All I ask is you drop by a recommended running store and ask about it. Don’t start out cranking it out… you won’t last. Get the right shoes. OMG, that made life so much easier. And check with your doctor to make sure it’s something you can do.
There are other means of getting fit, but I have found I like running. It’s wonderful “me time” out there on my own with no one telling me how to do anything, no emails, no phones ringing. It’s just me and my music player.
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