motd Sunday March 18, 2012

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WE ARE THE WORLD

Sunday, 18 March 2012

So, tell me, what do you weigh, over in the U.K.?

How much weight did you gain, living in Spain?

Do I need to come weigh ya'...in Australia?

And to all my friends in Toronto, Montreal and Nova

Scotia, the first three letters in your contry's name

is CAN...for CAN-ada!

Hey, all by itself, your country's name is a clue that you CAN lose this

weight!

I receive e-mails from

people all over the world telling me how what they

weigh is making their lives unhappy and unhealthy.

Okay, so I'm having a little fun with the map this

morning. That's because everyday, I receive e-mails

from people all over the world telling me how what

they weigh is making their lives unhappy and

unhealthy. They see me on TV, they come here to read

my daily message on the Web and some of them even own

my DVDs. A lot of them say, , I

wish we had someone like you here in my country.

I've tried everything to lose this weight.

Well, today's message is for those people who write me

from around the world and...it's for all of you folks

who live here in the good-old U.S.A., too! Whether

you live in Britain,

Egypt, Mexico or even The

Netherlands, (and yes, I've received e-mail

from all of those countries), I'm sure the foods you

grew up eating are probably very different from the

kinds of food we eat here in America. But the bottom

line is this: no matter where you live or the kind of

food you grew up on, a calorie

is still a calorie.

Calories have no

nationality.

Calories speak the same language, where ever they come

from. That's right, a calorie really has no

nationality. So that means the calories you eat too

many of in Italy have to be burned off the same way as

those calories you're eating too many of in New

Zealand. You've got to burn them off and that means

you've got to make exercise a regular and dedicated

part of your life.

As I read my e-mail from around the world, you know

what becomes most apparent to me? Well, I see that

we're all really the same, no matter which countries

we call home. I don't think living in one country or

another makes you more likely to end up obese. After

all, it's not which country you live in, it's all

about how

much food you eat and how much

exercise your

body gets everyday.

You're not alone over there

in Australia. You're not all by yourself up in

Canada.

So you see, when it comes to the whole

weight-loss/weight-gain thing, we're all more alike

than we realize. And...you're not

so alone, like so many of my overseas e-mail writers

think they are. You're not alone over there in

Australia. You're not all by yourself up in Canada.

And to that lady who wrote me a couple of weeks ago

from Brazil, so upset about her weight, you have

brothers and sisters all over the world who share the

same hopes and dreams as you.

We are strong, stronger than the food. We can

move, making these bodies of ours

calorie-burning machines. We can

stick together, be positive, believe in

ourselves and prove, once and for all, that we can

lose the weight we want and need to lose.

Thank goodness for the World Wide Web. It has helped

me realize that when it comes to our weight, we really

are just one great family. Yes, we are the

world. And,

I'll tell you something else, borrowing a little a

clue from our neighbor to the north, Canada,

yes we CAN lose this

weight.

Love,