Pray For Boston!

It's very sad. One wonders about what kind of world we are in. Can you imagine there you are in great health enjoying running and your life is forever altered? I'm praying for the victims and those who faced these terrible things.  I just hope this isn't used to take more freedoms away in some fashion. After the
horrible Sandy Hook incident they all went after gun ownership as if the criminal or criminally insane pay attention to any laws. There are some questioning the official story already.  I don't know. It seems there are so many bad things happening out there. How did they hide the bombs?  Did they ever say who is behind it? I thought they had canine dogs sniff for bombs at events like this already. There's too many tragedies and violence adding up. America just isn't the same place it used to be anymore. Sigh.

Fast Food is Gross!

I haven't eaten any fast food in 4 years. This means no Burger King, no McDonalds, no Wendy's, no Taco Bell. It all makes me sick. Whatever they put in their food, MSG? The feelings of unwellness are so intense, aversion therapy set in long ago! A lot of people are shocked at a woman my size who avoids fast food like the plague.

When away from home, I will go to a grocery store and try and buy a fresh sandwich or some fruit before patronizing one of these places. When I see the clown I want to run for the hills! How can people eat this junk? When I was still eating the occasional fast food item, I always was disappointed, it tasted like saw dust. Salads didn't fix the problem either. The bread always tasted like they were pouring sugar into it. The chicken patties tasted weird.

By the way, I was kind of concerned too that Subway as well was making me sick, even with the "Eat Fresh!" promises, I went and looked up the actual ingredients it was MSG city! Subway is another one that was good in the old days, but the ingredients got crummier and crummier.

At Subway, Customers Really Aren't Eating as "Fresh" As They Think

"Well, not if you actually look at the ingredients in Subway's food. McDonald's has drawn heaps of criticism for the alleged poor quality of its food (particularly in movies like SuperSize Me and Fast Food Nation), but Subway is really no different. The sliced turkey and ham may not have been frozen like hockey pucks before they serve it to you, but it's loaded down with artificial ingredients -- bulking agents, fillers, processing aids, preservatives and the like."

I looked up those ingredients and it explained to me why the last few times at Subway I felt sick. If we think about obesity conspiracy stuff, it is kind of scary that the place that sells itself as providing a "fresh" alternative, is overloading the ingredients with MSG and other preservatives.

When I was a kid in the 1970s, even McDonalds food still had taste to it. Perhaps back then it even looked different:



The other day I saw this interesting article

McDonald’s McProblem: Why Millennials Are Rejecting the Golden Arches

Advertising Age obtained a recent internal memo from McDonald's stating the fast-food giant has failed to make it on millennials' list of top 10 restaurant chains.

This could have something to do with millennials subscribing to healthier, more sustainable food chains. Even though McDonald's added salads to its menu as a nutritious alternative for health-conscious consumers a decade ago, this effort has proved insufficient—especially when we learn things like its Caesar salad is more fattening than its burger.

It's not surprising that McDonald's is absent on the millennial list, says Dan Schawbel, author of Promote Yourself: The New Rules For Career Success and managing partner of Millennial Branding, a Gen Y research and consulting firm. "I think back to Fast Food Nation, which was very popular among millennials," he told TakePart. "They're looking for sustainability. They want their food to be better grown, and when you see McDonald's putting [artificial flavors] in their food, those things aren't helping build trust."

Seems like the young people have some discerning taste buds left in their mouths and sense.

More Hunger Pain!

One thing about me people would never imagine:

I have hunger pains constantly. No, I am not talking "emotional eating" or "I am bored and this TV show would go great with a bag of chips", but actual stomach growling,head pain etc. I've talked about this issue before. Right now I am hungry. It's growling and I am thinking "Leave me alone", I have to play games like delaying the eating of breakfast if I wake up too early--I woke up at 6:00 am this morning, because if I eat now, I'll be hungry by 10 a.m. and that will add on too many calories for the day. Do thin people even have to worry about this stuff? Somehow I doubt it. By the way one thing about IBS, hunger pain can trigger off an attack if you ignore it for enough hours. It can actually turn into dry heaves nausea. 

I can't follow body cues on eating, if I did, I'd be a thousand pounds. One thing I did do, and this was to balance my sugars which dropped kicked years worth of panic attacks was go on a "timed eating schedule". I do eat three meals a day and one snack usually and that is probably still too much but I do what I can, just living life, it is not uncommon for me to go two hours feeling hunger pain, knowing that if I "eat too early", it will mess things up. During last month, we got food insecure, I was having to cut down the food and scrounging, this stuff happens all the time, it seemed the hunger pain was insistent and constant. This is just something I have noticed. I said to my husband "I can't believe this, it never seems to let up!"

I have another "calories" brainwashed commenter knocking around on the blog. Why do people imagine that dieting works for everyone? If I have hunger pain this bad just staying on my "informal" eating plan even to KEEP FROM GAINING WEIGHT, oh people can't imagine. I have felt like cursing my own body out for demanding food it does not need. On diets, life can get very interesting for me.

“Well , I’m sorry to shatter your dream but it is impossible , biologically to stay on a weight loss diet .  Unless you go totally crazy like the women with anorexia nervosa because they get so cut off from bodily sensations that they do not eat at all, or eat very little.... But if you manage to stay sane at all, you will feel the furious message from your body to please nourish it.  It will pull out all the tricks it can to get you to take in some energy.  It will make you think of nothing but food.”  Shadow on A Tightrope Kelly

I do know severe insulin resistance makes hunger worse. I am trying to train myself to accept hunger more, and yes this means hunger pain. I do things like trying to figure out how long I can go. Diabetes seems to be a cruel task master. As I write this, I am hungry, the whole I could eat a horse type of hunger, pushing things to as near as 8:00 am as I can, knowing that I don't want to feel hungry again until its lunch time. 

Be a Fat Woman With Style!

Found this on Pinterest, her name is Camila Batmanghelidjh

I like creative dress styles, anyone that leaves behind the blue jeans and white T-shirt formula, is someone after my own heart!

I try to dress with a little pizzazz, here is a snippet of my "fashion sense". With more money, I'd be going to town but I do what I can.

Fat Hating Advertising: It seems to be getting worse!

One thing I am noticing is fat hating advertising seems to be getting worse. Tell me what you think.  

This advertisement was created by Brandon Knowlden for Northern Bariatric Surgery Institutes in Pennsylvania. The poster says “Obesity is suicide. But it doesn't have to end this way. Find out how bariatric surgery can help. The Northern Bariatric Surgery Institute. www.cutweight.org”. The advertisement employed an emotional approach which caused a fearful emotion about obesity in consumers by directly linking obesity and death.

Is the message eat some sausages and you deserve to die? Like thin people never eat any?

I thought that this one can't be real so I went to go see if it was, and it is from what I can tell...Sigh.

It's from Europe.  I have this running theory about fat women always being shown naked or in states of undress to demean them. Well here you go! That one is so offensive it is sick.

Moral degenerates that sell adultery and immorality aren't exactly going to be "fat friendly" either.

  

I never liked Peta.

Wow, thanks um...I think...



This one is biased, I am surprised they show her going up stairs and not lying on the couch.

Irony

News Article: "Can We Smell Obesity?"

Hey they already tell us we smell. I am not sure if this is honest gut flora science jazzed up with very poorly chosen headlines or just another fancy scientific way to say "You fat people stink!"

Can We Smell Obesity?

"It turns out that obesity may be detectable as a gas, thanks to organisms that inhabit our gut. In a study published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, researchers extend our knowledge about the hidden universe of the microbes that live within us to show that obesity is associated with certain populations of microbes that give off a distinctive gas. 

To be more specific, obesity may smell a lot like…methane, which is to say, like not much at all, since methane in its naturally-occurring state is actually odorless. In the study. Dr. Ruchi Mathur, director of diabetes in the department of medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, and her colleagues analyzed the breath of 792 men and women of various ages. Mathur focused on detecting methane in the breath, since animal studies found that the presence of a certain family of organisms called archaea, which are older than bacteria and colonize the gut, was linked with weight gain and conveniently released small amounts of methane gas. 

Mathur also knew from her own work analyzing the gas makeup of the breath from bariatric surgery patients that those releasing higher levels of methane in their breath tended to have a body mass index (BMI) nearly 7 points higher on average than those with lower levels."

One commenter wrote responding to this article: "Well, over the years we have heard that obese people cause global warming, use too much in the way of resources, and NOW we can smell them. When will the death camps and ovens be ready?"

See: This Week In Bad Science Journalism: Fat People Stink, Am I Right?