Don't Be a Fat Head! - Change Your Thinking
Can you believe the things that quickly become habits? It's like buying a dozen donuts, one bite and the box is gone. Overweight and obese people (like me) just think about food in strange ways - we fall in love with it, we talk to it, we romance it, and well for some, it's worse that.
I have to say I am pretty sane, and at the same time I can be seduced by the pink curves of a Hostess Sno-Ball; all while I was minding my own business being faithful to my food log! It is violent out there. I have been mugged by pancakes, lied to by "healthy" food labels, and was once attacked by a vicious key lime pie with 3000 MG of sodium per slice! Picture me pulling out a Baretta handgun in the frozen food aisle and narrowly escaping through the pet aisle of my local grocery store as I jump over a stock clerk. I am in a cold sweat until I get in to the car! Then my first through is maybe a box of Ho-Ho's wouldn't have been too bad if I ate just one a day.
I loved telling my older brother a few years back, "I may be fat but you are stupid and bald, and I can lose weight get a mullet!"
Well, now that I have been at this for awhile, believe it or not, my thinking has changed. It is still not straight, but it is much more weight conscious! Here's how:
- The Damn Label: It's like your parent's walking in on you while you are making out with the captain of the Cheerleading squad. 300 freakin' calories for one cookie, that's 2 miles walking at a brisk pace!
- Processed Foods: WTF, does everything that tastes good have to be filled with fat, sugar, salt, and carcinogens?! For God's sake I bought some grass fed beef for $20 a pound. UCK! I am just going to eat the grass myself. (Actually, with McCormack's Cajun spice I got it up to the level of Outback Steak House!)
- Low Cal: What the heck does that mean? Really, they tried to fool us back in the 70's with diet bread; it was just half the thickness of un-diet bread so I ate 2 pieces. It seems that a daily habit of diet soda increases the risks of heart attack.
- Dairy Queen: I swear I just stopped there to a get a bubble with a kitty in it for my daughter, that's all! And they don't have any dang kittens!
- Christmas Presents: I asked for a Bow-Flex, what the hell is happening to me? I could have 60" TV to watch the Stanley Cup playoffs!?
How about you, how has your thinking changed?
I am my own worst enemy when it comes to the chips. Damn you chips! Damn you!
This is something off the subject. Here I am, an Australian girl who grew up in cattle country in the friggin outback who visited the USA and discovered a whole chain of bloody of American restaurants using our Australiana logo "Outback" to sell food to Americans. Very sure this chain isn't Australian owned! or genuine. I feel raped, sorry this just shits me. That is all.
I must also admit that I am not eating candy corn. A challenge at this time of year. But the other day my husband and I were in line at the store near a candy corn display. I picked up the bag and literally smelled it with a big inhalation. My husband was a bit embarrassed but I didn't buy it. :)
Great blog.
Keep them coming!
So now i make sure i eat before i buy food...cookies are less tempting when i am full.
hope this helps with your stalker issue
Seriously.
When eating a hotdog gives you satisfaction you have issues.