I've haven't eaten meal 22 yet. I don't want to actually. I know that corn chowder is what I have in the refrigerator and my body says meh to that. I'll probably suck it up and heat up a bowl of the awful stuff.
As I mentioned in an earlier blog post, I've become one of those people who counts calories in everything. I finally bothered to look up the caloric and fat content of McDonalds foods and it's rather horrifying. A double cheeseburger is roughly 500 calories. Considering that I used to eat two double cheeseburgers and an order of fries on a quasi-regular basis in college scares me. Throw in a drink to the mix and I've just gorged myself on a 1500 calorie meal. That's 3/4 of my daily caloric intake.
The problem doesn't stop at the fast food counter. I took a gander at a Chef Boyardee can of ravioli and noticed that a single can had 500 calories as well. All in all, there's a very simple reason America has an obesity problem, all of our foods are stuffed with empty calories. It's something that I've heard time and time again from many sources, but until I acutally took the time to analzye the nutrional value/non-value myself, I guess I didn't really notice it.
The frozen food section is pretty much impossible to shop in anymore. Anything from a can is a damned death trap as well. Anne Marie told me that now I know what women face all the time. Honestly, I kind of wish I had taken the blue pill. Ignorance is bliss after all. Well, I suppose the alternative is to increase my physical activity to match a 4000 calorie a day diet. I've started to become more active as the summer unfolds, but I'm a long way off from 4000 a day.
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