I'm dressed in white noise
Apr. 24th, 2007 04:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
raybearI've read Fast Food Nation, I've seen Super Size Me, I get it, but still, maybe once a month, I eat at McDonald's. It's comfort food, even if it's that deceptive sort of coping mechanism that feels really really good at first and then hella worse later, like binge drinking. Today was that day of the month, and all the signs were there that it was a bad choice: I had made a wrong turn when not paying attention and had to circle back around, the drive-thru person gave me diet coke and when I noticed and asked her for regular coke, she gave me a soda that was approximately 99% carbonated water (never order the popular soda at the tail end of the lunch hour!). I get home and ate it all while watching my BBC nature documentary I checked out from the library (I'm blaming ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
unscrambled and vfc). It was all about mammals who are "chisellers", i.e. rodents, and my favorite part was the secret camera they planted in the beaver dam to see what they do in the winter time -- it turns out they rent out property to muskrats!
After eating, I flip over the burger box to toss in the trash, and what have they added? A nutritional label. You know, the one with grams and percentages of calories and fiber and sodium and fat and carbohydrates and...it was alarming. I mean, it's not like I didn't know, but seeing it right there, immediately after swallowing the last bite, it had sort of overwhelmed me. But that's not even the real reason I might finally be kicking off this habit. After I ate, I wanted to take a nap. That's fairly par for the course, I usually doze for about 20 minutes in the afternoon before going into the office job. Now, frequently during the week I often have wine at lunch. A small glass, such that it usually takes me a full week to finish a bottle, just enough to make me a bit drowsy, but after said nap and a glass of water, I feel refreshed and alert.
Today I had no wine (though now I'm thinking, what wine would I drink with a mcdonald's cheeseburger and fries?) and I took a nap and slept for 40 minutes, not 20, and I felt like hell when I woke up. I made it out of the house, still foggy, with that syrupy dry coating in my mouth, no matter how much water I drank. I almost fell asleep on the train. I felt really uncomfortable too -- antsy, itchy, couldn't even listen to songs on my ipod the whole way through. And even though it's been 3 hours since I ate my meal, I feel as full as the 3 minutes right after. I forced myself to eat half a banana though. I'm hoping it might help my body absorb some actual nutrients.
On the train, all I could think was this probably officially means I'm no longer in my 20s.
unscrambled and vfc). It was all about mammals who are "chisellers", i.e. rodents, and my favorite part was the secret camera they planted in the beaver dam to see what they do in the winter time -- it turns out they rent out property to muskrats! After eating, I flip over the burger box to toss in the trash, and what have they added? A nutritional label. You know, the one with grams and percentages of calories and fiber and sodium and fat and carbohydrates and...it was alarming. I mean, it's not like I didn't know, but seeing it right there, immediately after swallowing the last bite, it had sort of overwhelmed me. But that's not even the real reason I might finally be kicking off this habit. After I ate, I wanted to take a nap. That's fairly par for the course, I usually doze for about 20 minutes in the afternoon before going into the office job. Now, frequently during the week I often have wine at lunch. A small glass, such that it usually takes me a full week to finish a bottle, just enough to make me a bit drowsy, but after said nap and a glass of water, I feel refreshed and alert.
Today I had no wine (though now I'm thinking, what wine would I drink with a mcdonald's cheeseburger and fries?) and I took a nap and slept for 40 minutes, not 20, and I felt like hell when I woke up. I made it out of the house, still foggy, with that syrupy dry coating in my mouth, no matter how much water I drank. I almost fell asleep on the train. I felt really uncomfortable too -- antsy, itchy, couldn't even listen to songs on my ipod the whole way through. And even though it's been 3 hours since I ate my meal, I feel as full as the 3 minutes right after. I forced myself to eat half a banana though. I'm hoping it might help my body absorb some actual nutrients.
On the train, all I could think was this probably officially means I'm no longer in my 20s.
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Date: 2007-04-24 09:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-24 10:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-24 10:00 pm (UTC)COCONUT CURRY VEGETABLES
Stir-fried mixed vegetables, crispy silken tofu and peanuts in a vegetarian coconut curry sauce.
Calories
690
Protein
30g
Carbs
48g
Total Fat
46.0g
Saturated Fat
24.0g
46g of fat!! 24 saturated! and that's not even the worst of them. almost all entrees are in the 50-70g of fat per serving range. oy vey. not like i eat there. but wow.
in case you're curious:
http://www.pfchangs.com/cuisine/menu_main.jsp
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Date: 2007-04-24 10:19 pm (UTC)Something with a lot of bite. Young rioja? Maybe zinfandel?
Now I will repress telling you all off the fascinating facts I learned about cave animals.
But I will point you towards this. Giant prehistoric fungus!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/04/24/wmush124.xml
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Date: 2007-04-24 10:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-24 10:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-25 01:09 am (UTC)And, given how blown out I am from trying to teach and study, an MSPaint drawing may be in order soon.
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Date: 2007-04-24 10:24 pm (UTC)i only get one, like you, about once a month. and i refuse
to look at the nutrition on it for fear i may have a heart
attack right then and there.
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Date: 2007-04-24 11:24 pm (UTC)This weekend I was kind of craving McDonalds. I haven't had it since Fake It Til You Make It week back it February. But I had volunteered at the Green Festival and then are you really going to go from the Green Festival to McDonalds? I might have if I weren't wearing the t-shirt guilting me away.
Someone at the Green Festival was wearing a t-shirt with the golden arches that read, "McShit".
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Date: 2007-04-25 04:32 am (UTC)this is my confession...
Date: 2007-04-25 04:43 am (UTC)quitting cigarettes has been easier
Date: 2007-04-25 05:23 am (UTC)so, i just stopped. i still crave that sh*t.
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Date: 2007-04-25 02:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-25 04:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-26 06:24 pm (UTC)