Canned Fat Drive: Donate Pounds Lost to People in Need
Find Weight Loss Motivation by Feeding the Hungry
-- By Cindy Dyson, SparkPeople member
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Canned foods are everywhere. And besides using them for, well, sustenance, you can put them to use to motivate your weight loss and help others at the same time.
The idea came to me while I was putting away canned goods after a trip to the grocery store. I had joined Spark People the week before and already lost five pounds. But those pounds were just a few tiny ticks on my scale—nothing tangible. As I hefted cans overhead to my pantry shelves, I wondered, “What do those five pounds feel like?” I pulled out an economy-sized jug of sauce—exactly five pounds.
“Wow!” I said, lifting the jug up and down a few times. “That’s a lot of fat that’s not on me anymore!” It was so motivating that I put the jug on the washing machine and lifted it every time I walked by. By evening, I was so pumped about how those first 5 pounds felt, I vowed to keep adding to it.
