“Only in America do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries, and a diet coke.”
So reads the sign on the front of a classroom door, and how true that is! How many of you know someone who pigs out at fast food restaurants every day? How many people in this country who never eat a balanced meal? I used to eat at McDonald’s for the Kid’s Meals. Not anymore, though.
But America is one of the “fattest countries” in the world (I don’t think it’s gotten to the “distinction” of being number 1 yet, but…) and it doesn’t show any signs of slowing down. How do people think that a Diet Coke will miraculously make them thinner? When they ingest 20 times their required calories daily? Not to mention all that sugar… where did we get the notion that a Diet Coke could suddenly trim 30 pounds of cellulite off our bodies? The difference between Coke and Diet is probably so slim that the only way there would be a noticeable effect is if the soda drinker ate balanced meals and exercised regularly. And then, that person most likely would not need to lose weight.
Doesn’t regular Coke taste better than diet? (At least that’s what I’ve heard; I don’t drink soda…) All this “sacrifice” for nothing? Wow.
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Oh, the irony... Eating healthy is just so inconvenient! But we've gotta do it.
I know a lot of people that will order a diet coke because they don't drink sugar, or they are diabetic. Granted, fast food is not the best possible food for a person with diabetes to eat. Let's face it, it's not good for any of us to eat. The amount of calories and fat contained in one of those meals is enough for 2 days worth of meals.
I personally order a diet coke b/c I don't drink anything with "real" sugar in it. No kool-aid, none of those little bottled juices that have 5% fruit juice content, nada. I lost 20 lbs by cutting my sugar intake back by just eliminating drinking non-diet drinks. So, there's some rationality behind the diet coke ordering fast food eaters.
I get thrown out of smorgasbords. I don't care, it's my body and I'll do what i want. SURE I have brownish inner thighs because I can't clean properly, but so what I KNOW I enjoyed every bite of food that it took to get me to this point. I do order the diet coke...sugar rots your teeth when you are too lazy to get out of bed to brush them. Just tellin' my story babe.
I can't really pass judgement on "gainers" since I am currently in a gaining relationship with my significant other. We do have little bedroom "contests" to see who puts on the most weight in a week, and so far I have won three out of the last four weeks. I do feel some extra weight is sexy and nice. I actually worship my significant other's "pannus," the medical word for the flap of skin that hangs down over my lover's lap. It does get cheesy at times but with proper cleansing and some baby powder it can be sexy. I know some heavy women who powder under their large breasts to keep fungus and mold out of them on hot days, and yes, they wash with a stick on a rag but so what. Live and let largely live.
I like to measure my "apron" weekly, but I don't revel in contests to BE overweight, I just do what i want. It's my body and i will do what EVER I want. I thought I was pregnant last year when i got over 300. So I dieted with only 4 small meals each day and 3 inbetweener snackie poos. I feel if I feel light and feminine and I eat slowly and keep my pinkies out then no one will notice that I had been in the fast food restaurant booth and marched to the counter to order my 4th QP (w/cheese). I like cheese on nearly everything, except your lover's lap. Speaking of laps, my poodle won't jump onto my chair with me any longer, he can't see that I still have a lap, from his perspective it must look like an air matress with a cereal bowl perched atop, all crammed in a laz-e-boy.
but LAZY pigs. America has gotten so lazy over the last decade or so. It's incredible. I saw a picture the other day of a 24 hour fitness place. In the middle was a really wide set of stairs leading up to the building from the parking lot. On either side of the staircase was an escalator. There were like 7 people on the escalators and NONE on the stairs. WHAT IS WRONG WITH US?!?!?
Personally I hate the after taste of diet coke but my best friend always gets it for the flavor. He doesn't drink it to lose weight he just prefers the flavor over regular.
Personally I hate the after taste of diet coke but my best friend always gets it for the flavor. He doesn't drink it to lose weight he just prefers the flavor over regular.