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I'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] unscrambled and [livejournal.com profile] 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.

Date: 2007-04-24 10:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] raybear.livejournal.com
please post the accompanying MS Paint illustration of this article.

Date: 2007-04-25 01:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] unscrambled.livejournal.com
well, I just figured out how to embed links in my journal, so maybe soon I'll figure out how to post pictures too. I'm joining the technological revolution!

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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