Day Three. Some observations and thoughts.

I'll not bore you with all the details of what I ate today.  I'll also no longer mention that the foods I'm eating are organic, free range, growth hormone free, antibiotic free etc...etc...etc...  I will mention any new foods that I try and really like or for that matter can't stand.

There is no doubt that Americans are getting fatter by the decade.  I'm sure that their are many contributing factors but a few thoughts crossed my mind today that I'd like to share.  I'm now eating more food than I was before I started this experiment.  That got me to thinking, back a half century or so when American looked like a Norman Rockwell painting.  It was the norm for the man to work and the woman to cook and clean.  I bring this up because it takes a lot of time to prepare not to mention shop for all natural, free range...you know what I mean.  "Back in the day" most food was free of all the crap that is so prevalent in todays foods.  Meat came from the butcher, who got it from the rancher, who raised it in a field where it ate grass.  Today it's a big fucking deal to find a steak that wondered around eating grass for all of its days, most supermarkets do not carry any grass fed beef, let alone antibiotic free etc...etc.  So back to yesteryear; The guy comes home, the family sits down at the dinner table (For the kids:  A dinner table is that big table covered in all kinds of newspapers, magazines, laundry, book bags etc, you know, the one that you only eat at three times a year) and eats a healthy meal, a big healthy meal.  Contrast that with today.  Odds are both the man and the woman work full-time.  We wake up in a rush, no time for breakfast in the traditional sense, so we grab a cup of coffee and a bagel at the local quickie mart.  We then eat and drink while drive to work.  Lunch is where most of us really screw the pooch.  I can't count the number of Wawa shorti Italian hoagies I've eaten.  570 calories of which 230 are from fat.  The sodium comes in at 2,220 milligrams.  That is roughly a teaspoon of salt.  In one shorti Italian hoagie.   A "classic" size has 3,030 mg's.  The maximum amount that is recommended is 2,300..per DAY not per sandwich! By the time we get home from work we are beat and neither the man nor woman feels like cooking, so we order take out or heat a frozen meal, which we inhale while watching a little TV before rushing out to our next obligation.  No wonder we are getting fat!

Time is a bitch!  Time that is the first real obstacle that I have encountered on this experiment, and Lisa does all the shopping and cooking!  I just eat it!  Eating these increased quantities of food, while trying to take your time and not eat with the table manners of a feral child is a bitch.

Before you ask, yes I was a little worried that eating more would prevent me from loosing weight or at the least hold me at my starting weight, so I cheated.... Last night I got on the scale...  I lost four Fucking Pounds!   "BUT you have not been drinking!" you say.  Well my last dirty little secret it this; I have.  I have been drinking 6 ounces of vodka on the rocks each night. 2oz times three.

It is waaaay too soon to really know if this idea will work, I realize that; however this might just work.  Imagine, eating your fill, (reasonable) drinking In moderation  (moderation is an imaginary place that exists where ever I happen to be) and loosing weight at the same time.  If it works, I should write a book!

Until tomorrow...

Regards,
Bald Bill