Healthy Food @ MindSay 
Mindsayer torridgirl has been doing a really cool thing on her blog about being healthy and I thought I'd chip in. A lot of you probably don't know this but I'm one of those psycho health food people. If I wasn't going to be a Graphic Designer I'd probably be a health food specialist or work for like Slim4Life or something as a counselor. I feel for people over weight, they can't possibly be happy like that. If you would, I'd like you to do this survey and just reply it to my comments. Maybe you'll learn something about yourself you didn't realize before. lol
Basic Info:
1. Are you Male or Female?
2. What is your exact Height?
3. Are you more than 10lbs over the ideal weight for your size?
(If you don’t know your ideal weight, check here: Health Central it’s a good resource and accurate to medical standards.)
4. Do you have any medical reasons that inhibit you from maintaining a healthy weight?
(Example: Bad joints make it hard to exercise. Bad metabolism. Etc.)
5. Do you have a healthy perspective about your weight?
Exercise Info:
1. Can you jog up a standard flight of stairs without being out of breath?
2. Do you spend more time sitting than standing? Are you fairly active?
3. Do you sleep a lot or too little?
4. Do you have any type of exercise regiment?
5. Do you make a note to move more?
Food Info:
1. In a normal week, how often do you go out to eat at a sit down restaurant?
2. In a normal week, how often do you hit the drive through?
3. In a normal week, how often do you consume anything with high excess of sugar?
4. On a daily basis, how much soda pop, energy drinks, alcohol, or specialty coffee do you drink?
5. On a daily basis, how much water do you drink?
6. What do you eat more of, beef or poultry?
7. Do you eat white bread or wheat?
8. Do you eat a lot of food with preservatives in them?
9. Do you check labels when you go to the grocery store?
10. Do you know how much you consume in a day?
I have been many places, but one of them is not inside myself. Has it been so long that I am unable to peer into the depths of my own soul without the help of another? Am I so distanced that I cannot even reach the only person I know really truly exists?
Enough of that mumbo jumbo, my eye's twitching and my right leg is entirely asleep. I feel like punching babies, and my cat will not leave this goddamn box alone. We have several Christmas ornaments lying around, the carnage of kittyhell, the place that our apartment turns into after hours. I wonder what it would be like to be at home all the time, a Shit Ass Ho Motherfucker, per se. I would cook food. A lot. We've been being healthy, and I taped the calendar to the refrigerator so we can write goals. Shane wants to work out every week. I want to cook healthily for the two of us. So tonight we had Kraft macaroni and cheese. I've also devised yet another completely too complicated method for determining how to do the dishes. Not only that, but I made Shane go through our cookbooks and pick out stuff he wants to eat so I can make "healthy dinner." I'm such a fucking nut.
Plus, I spent at least a half hour trying to find a good copy of the 7th Harry Potter book in .lit format. I want to read it. And the best way to do it is to download it and put it into .jpg files and then read it on my Zune. But no, Ms. Rowlings has to be a jackass this time around and say "no ebook for this one." So there's only pirated versions of the .lit format, only even pirated versions of .pdf format. Well fuck you, Rowlings. I'm never going to buy your book. I'll just figure something out over here.
I don't know why I go on these jags of useless attempts to do something weird. Like find an ebook (when the 300+ I have on my computer aren't enough), find proper conversion software, and put it on my Zune so I can read it without sitting on this godawful computer chair. I don't know why Shane likes the fucking thing. Plus, it's a constant reminder of a you-know-who who likes to take advantage of people by pretending they have no interests but their own, and then ignoring protests of unfairness or hurt feelings. But whatever, it's just a chair. I'm pretty sure it doesn't have bad juju since I just beat the last castle before Bowser on Super Mario World, so it really is just a chair.
Now the bane of my existence, the tingling pain of formerly sleeping limbs, plagues me and causes my eye to twitch further. And I'm so tired that my spelling is really starting to go to piss. I'm even making myself mad just trying to type. So, since I'm a cheap good-for-nothing freeware slob, I'm going to smoke and read my 6th Harry Potter book, of which each chapter begins "bleebloo," thanks to the French who invented the chapter division tool that needs a keyword to put images of each chapter in a different folder. Why I chose "bleebloo" for the keyword, I have no clue. It must be one of those things, you know, where ten years later someone gets famous for it, and you think to yourself, "fuck, I was using that for chapter keywords while we were still living on Chestnut street."
Okay, maybe not.
The worst of these is, of course, Mickey-D's. (Read the book Fast Food Nation or see the documentary Supersize Me.) I try not to eat there.
The thing is, lately they have been trying to dumb-down the image of an evil fast food company. They have been introducing "healthy" stuff and promoting active lifestyles.
But, guess what, they are just more corporate lies.
Example: my mom, who is always trying to maintian her weight, buys their chicken wrap thingies all the time thinking that it is healthier then other stuff on the menu. She ussually will order that with a small fries and a water or Diet Coke.
She, unfortunately, has been tricked into the common misconception that chicken is alway healthy. Has anyone actually looked at the fat content of that stuff? The chicken wraps at McDonald's actually has more fat and calories then a regular cheeseburger. If you get it grilled instead of fried it still has more fat and the same amount of calories as the hamburgers.
McDonald's knows that most people assume that chicken is healthy (and in most cases it is, it depends on how it's prepared, among other things) and uses it to lie and make even more money,
Interesting, huh?
McDonald's Nutrition Facts
Thanks,
Mark
You can tell it's summer time when you go to the store and see all kinds of foods that you don't see the rest of the year. Colorful fruits and vegetables, exotic seafood and fish, and my palate is just bursting wanting to sample everything . . . why can't Whole Foods be like one Giant Costco on a Saturday morning??? Anyways I decided to come up with a list of my favorite eats, no matter the time of year or time of day, or how good or bad they are for you. And the winners are . . .
Carne Asada. The thin cut not the big fat kind loaded with guacamole and sour cream
Grilled, blackened whitefish, any kind it doesn't matter. Oh so tender and oh so good
Homemade spaghetti with spaghetti sauce that has been simmering for hours, garlic, oregano and basil oh my
Macaroni and cheese. Nothing fancy but a college staple that never bores or gets old, and still tastes good after you graduate.
Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. The crunchy kind of peanut butter that is more peanuts than butter and jelly that is as much fruit as jam. Put it in the refrigerator overnight and it tastes that much better the next day cold.
Fresh fruit, topped with heavy organic whipping cream and organic granola. Starbucks calls it yogurt parfait for $5. I like it best with raspberries, blackberries, blueberries and strawberries.
Fish Tacos from Wahoo's
Double-Double from In-N-Out
24 oz. bottled water. Arrowhead, Crystal Geyser, Sparkletts doesn't matter. As long as it's cold.
As long as we're on the topic of cold beverages . . . beer. In a bottle, Corona. On tap, Newcastle. Pitcher of Budweiser and Natty Light out of a keg . . . I know it's gross but $29 bucks at IV Market will make any beer taste good.
Whole milk. Yes, whole milk. 2% and non-fat are devoid of all flavor you might as well just color the water white.
Black Forest Dream from Coldstones. Translation, chocolate ice cream with brownies and fresh cherries mixed in with whipped cream on top in a cone cup.
Potato salad. Any kind, any way.
Homemade chili and hot dogs. Extra cheese, extra onions.
Pasta, pasta and more pasta. Fettucine, spaghetti, linguine, penne, fusilli, angel hair, shells, rigatoni, tortaloni, ravioli and my favorite lasagna. Garlic bread and salad are essential accessories.
Any fruit smoothie from Robeks, Jamba Juice, or Blenders in the Grass with frozen yogurt substitute instead of sugary sherbet.
Any local sushi joint. Sake bombs are a bonus.