This is a good question. The answer is actually “no.” We know that we can get better, but it takes time. We can do it too, by choosing a healthier lifestyle, getting regular exercise, and eating a balanced, plant-based diet. But that doesn’t mean it’s easy or comfortable.
The good news is that it is actually possible to change your mindset and lifestyle and get better. The bad news is that it wont be as simple as changing your diet, you will need to do a lot of hard work. In a perfect world, you would start by making a list of your top 5 most unhealthy habits and then start doing things to change them. But this isnt always possible.
In my experience, Ive always found the majority of people who are attempting to change their habits are doing it the wrong way. They dont realize, or cant admit, that their habits are harmful. The good news is that it is possible to change your mindset and lifestyle and get better. The bad news is that it wont be as simple as changing your diet, you will need to do a lot of hard work.
I see it all the time where people have no idea how to change their habits. They go to the gym and start a weight-loss diet without realizing it. Or they go to the gym and get ripped, while they have no business being in shape. Or they go to the gym and they become addicted to cardio and fail to work out for a week or two. The end result is they are no longer able to exercise regularly and are now overweight or obese.
I know I’m preaching to the choir here, but if you feel like you don’t have time to do the work to start losing weight and getting healthy, then don’t sweat the small stuff. The small stuff is the easy stuff. The small stuff is the stuff you need to do to make a change, so don’t sweat the small stuff.
To be fair though, in the first episode of the second season of Barnwell Family Medicine, the doctors that are trying to help their patients lose weight are not the same ones that were treating Dr. Barnwell on the show. In this episode Dr. Barnwell is in a panic because he is overweight, which is another reason why he is so hard on himself for being such a fat ass.
Dr. Barnwell is not to put too fine a point on it though, because even though the first episode of Barnwell Family Medicine is really about his struggle with weight, there’s a real medical reason behind it. In the episode we see Dr. Barnwell have surgery to remove some of the excess fat in his belly. But, because the surgery is very invasive, the doctors are not able to see exactly how much weight has been lost and are thus unable to recommend a certain diet.
Barnwell’s surgery is not the only reason the doctors are unable to recommend a diet for Barnwell Family Medicine. This whole episode also involves doctors who, when asked by the patients for input, refuse to give it. And when the patients ask them why, their answer is always the same: because of the surgery. The surgery involves surgery that the doctors can’t perform, because they’re not equipped to see the exact loss of weight.
Thats a little bit different. The surgery is a major thing, but the doctors are not equipped to see the exact loss of weight. Theyre not just saying the surgery has been done, theyre saying it was done. The doctors are not just saying “Oh, the weight is gone, it’s fine”. Theyre saying that the diet the doctors tried to recommend was a bad idea and the surgery will fix it.
Yes, this is the kind of thing that happens when we move from the land of the living to the land of the dead. The doctors are not equipped to see the exact loss of weight, and when they say Theyre fine, theyre not fine. The doctors are not just saying the surgery has been done, they’re saying it was done.
