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It's humbling.
When you eat crow, it doesn't much matter if it's organic, cage free, and without hormones. It always tastes like shit.
I have dreaded and avoided this blog as if it were plagued by the worst contagious hells the human mind could conjure. The only thing I've had to blog about as of late is how I cannot seem to practice what I preach. Sure, I can sit here and wax on about how busy the holidays are and when money is tight, garbage foods are cheap. And it would all be true. But I am still a hypocrite. And I hate it.
When you spend an entire spring and summer season eating as near to an entirely organic, locally produced diet as our region allows, funny things happen when you go back to gorging on shit food. You gain weight at an alarming rate? Check. About 10 pounds in 3 months. Your digestive system hates you. Always. Especially at 3am? Check. I have been so sick that I can't imagine how I gained the 10 fucking pounds. Insomnia owns your ass? Check. If I wasn't up all night stress testing our plumbing and septic technologies, I was up looking at pointless websites, or reading comics that would be there tomorrow, or watching the most inane things on NetFlix. I don't know if it was the High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS from here on) or some other chemical nonsense that has no business in my body, but I know I wasn't sleeping. And I'm still not. I cannot accept that this is all coincidental. This is my body revolting against my habits. It was given the good life then thrown back to the shit pile.
It's not all been $5 pizzas and terrible drive through tacos.
My wonderful wife has been making 100% of our sandwich bread since just after Thanksgiving. Making a grilled cheese sandwich from this and some great colby jack and real butter was a wonderful idea.
Thanksgiving brought us a family meal that was awesome as always.
Christmas Eve was truly amazing. Our extended family did something for us that I hadn't experienced since high school. They made The Feast of Seven Fishes, an Italian Christmas tradition that I have enjoyed nearly all of my life until moving to a place where Italian heritage is strangely absent. It was an amazing meal and it really felt like home. I can't thank them enough.
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2 comments:
I'm with you Corey. After Steve's death this summer and inheriting the piles of work that Tyson Graphics had promised to clients, I went from lean and fit, working out regularly and eating healthy, wonderful foods, to the quick and "painless".
Fast food and Little Sleazars, Cans of crappy sodium overloaded pastas, and fast fix microwave meals. At first it wasn't a regular thing, but as more work came in the door and more things needed my attention, Important things like preparing my meals for the week, purchasing fresh vegetables and eating them became a after thought.
The result? I've gained 10 lbs since September, my BMI has started to raise again, I feel like ass regularly, and have been sick probably 5 times in the past 6 months.
I'm tired of it and have motivated to get back to the lifestyle I was living but the damage has been done, and now I'm climbing back up the mountain again.
Yeah, I'm with you. I stay away from the boxes and try to stick with what I can make on my own. I bought a food chopper, my first step toward a food processor. Cooking is fun again.
Just a recommendation, get some oat meal. It's just plain good for you heart. It's an easy microwave snack and you can dress it up with fruit, nuts, peanut butter --even whiskey. It's awesome.
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