March 30, 2008
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Procrastination.
I'm doing it.
Are you?
I have a paper due in my nutrition class on Friday. And once the paper is done, I'm done with the class. All of my other assignments have been submitted and most of them were in weeks early. But I cannot find the motivation for this accursed paper.
It is five sections long and is all about the obesity epidemic in America. I have managed to finish section one (defining obesity, looking into the root causes as well as the recommendations of the RDs of the US to help) and that wasn't too bad. Where I'm stuck? The part where I know what she wants - an analysis of the "typical" meal you would have at a sit down restaurant and at a fast food place. She wants us to basically blame restaurants for making Americans fat. And I don't buy it. *sigh*
I will probably suck it up and write what she wants though - just because I don't feel like swimming up that stream right now. I don't blame restaurants - people KNOW that they are not eating healthy. I blame the people who value convenience and taste over health. Admittedly, I am (or was) one of them. But to blame the restaurant that you go to of your own free will for making YOU fat seems like passing the buck to me.
Blah.
I really should finish. Maybe I'll just skip section two and move on to section four because section three I have even MORE problems with - the "costs" of eating healthy by doing a comparison of two grocery lists, one healthy and one less so - but the foods are very carefully chosen to MAKE the healthy food cheaper (smaller portion sizes, non-name brand purchases, etc, etc). Ugh. I realize that this is a low-level beginner nutrition class at the community college level but I can't help but feel like she's trying to push the students in a direction SHE wants them to go and I'm not sure I like that. I prefer to draw my own conclusions from the data.
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Blah, I don't want to take my summer class... plus, I don't know how to sign up for such classes... or if there is a way I can take them on line around here... or at another smaller, cheaper school... but I want them to transfer completely. I tried emailing and calling this stupid department, but alas, I have nto had any luck talking to an actual person.
Good luck with the weight loss thing. Since I have gotten here, the scales have been cruel and odd. I am now weighing more in the mornings, which I guess is a good thing. But it is always the same blasted number. Then it goes down a pound or two by that evening. I know I shouldn't obsess quite that much about weight, but it is frustrating. I have been eating way better and more frequently with little meals during the day. Especially when I am at work I do this, because I get two 15 mintue breaks and a 30. So that's lunch and two snacks throughout the day. An example meal: tonight we are having whole wheat pasta with garlic chicken and corn on the side. We generally eat between 5:30 and 6. Then I'll have a snack of pickles or popcorn around 8:30. I go to bed at about midnight. So I try not to eat anything too close to bed time. I have even gotten Iuri to give up his snacks too late, too. This has prevented acid at night for 5 nights in a row for him. I love it when I'm right!
@ketchup55 - Good on you for the not eating at night! I go to bed way earlier than you do (830pm at the latest) and don't get home until about 630 or 7pm from work, so I don't really have that luxury. I've been trying really hard to make sure that my heaviest meal is lunch and that dinner is just a light, light meal. That seems to help. As for the scale - maybe you need a different one!
And for classes - I actually recommend that you go down to the office in person and talk to the secretary/admin person. They are usually actually the ones that really know what is going on anyway and can be the BEST resource. Bribe them with delicious brownies if necessary, but get them on your side!
Brilliant opening! If you don't mind, I'm stealing it - it expresses how I feel exactly.
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