School luches

Today's work out was a little brutal. After yesterdays walking lunges with overhead press my legs were already a little sore and then I threw in this one!

twice through with the add on of 100 jumping jacks 25 vertical leg crunches 30 crunches 20 squats 20 wall push ups 50 russian twists 15 second side plank on each side 10 split lunge jumps 5 jump squats 40 high knees I'm TOAST!! But still going to try and squeeze in a 2 mile run later tonight! So today I have had school lunches on my mind. School started on Monday in our community and I have heard a LOT of complaining about the meals from both students and parents. We only get one ketchup packet, no cheese on our hamburgers, I don't like the broccoli, ect... This could go on forever. I have heard parents say things like "we never had these kind of rules when I was in school" or "now the goverment is controling what our children eat, what's next?" Well here is my view point...

Today's society has the highest obesity percentage EVER! Are you overweight? Is your child overweight? Maybe your child isn't overweight. Have you tought them proper eating habits? Probably not because most adults don't eat a well balanced diet. Someone had to step in where parents are not. Obesity has become an epidemic and there had to be a point where someone said "This is enough!" No one likes change. In any part of life change is hard. Even harder when you have no choice and someone else has chosen for you. But let me leave this discussion with this question... Do you want your child to be fat? Do you want them to struggle with obesity and it's related diseases? Is that what you want? So maybe a little more structure to their school luch and a little less ketchup, ranch, or cheese on thier plate isn't such a bad thing after all is it? Maybe you could learn a little from it and change the way you eat at home as well?