So I was walking down the street today and I saw an ad for a greasy spoon establishment in NYC. I mean this joint had all kinds of fried chicken and french fries and yuk yuk. It got me to thinking about the foods we eat and the quantities thereof. Before I started losing weight and watching my portion sizes (which admittedly I can use some improvement), I felt that if I didn’t have the triple cheeseburger with pickles, lettuce, onions, extra bacon, MAYONNAISE, ketchup and the super size fries that exceed well over 200 fries per cup then I was going to be hungry in 2 hours of me gorging myself with high blood pressure and blood clots waiting to happen.
I also went to McDonald’s today to get a medium iced coffee with French Vanilla. Woo wee! I saw this chick put in almost a half a glass full of liquid sugar. I got that coffee, sucked down a fourth of it and threw the rest away. WAY too much sugar. So what am I saying here? One of the first ways you can lose weight without even being on a diet is to control that SUPER SIZE thing us Americans have going. Do you know there are folks out here in this world that WISH they could eat a pickle let alone a 3 pound hamburger that it’s going to take 4 days to digest? Remember folks, portion control. You don’t have to have a super size in order to be full. Food for thought!
Watching folks put sugar in their coffee is painful for me. I remember I was in Dunkins one summer getting my usual iced coffee and this woman ordered a small hot coffee and then had the cashier give her a HANDFUL of sugar packets. She poured in like 6 sugars! I am still awed by that a year later. The woman was only about 20ish, too. She’ll be getting a healthy dose of diabetes for her 21st birthday, I’m sure of it.
Comment by Keturah — September 28, 2007 @ 2:44 am
Everything you’re saying is so true. I have a friend who happens to be a former co-worker who eats horribly. When we worked together and went to lunch, I would get some baked chicken and my two sides would be broccoli and a jasmine rice. She would get the same meal except she would get a bunch of cheese sauce on her broccoli, a big yeast roll and the rice and would get SEVERAL pads of butter for her roll and rice. Yuck!
Comment by Lori — September 30, 2007 @ 12:01 pm