8 Worst Foods in America

From Consumerist

8 Worst Foods In America

A new book called Eat This, Not That! shows photos of foods you shouldn’t eat and their more reasonable substitutes. Here is its list of the top eight worst foods in America:

• Fast Food Meal: McDonald’s Chicken Selects Premium Breast Strips with creamy ranch sauce: 870 calories
• Drink: Jamba Juice Chocolate Moo’d Power Smoothie: 166 grams of sugar, which equals eight servings of Ben & Jerry’s
• Supermarket Meal: Pepperidge Farm Roasted Chicken Pot Pie: 64 grams of fat
• “Healthy” Burger: Ruby Tuesday Bella Turkey Burger: 1,145 calories
• Airport Snack: Cinnabon Classic Cinnamon Roll: 813 calories
• Kids’ Meal: Macaroni Grill Double Macaroni ‘n Cheese: 62 fat grams
• Salad: On the Border Grande Taco Salad with Taco Beef: 102 grams of fat and 2,410 mg of sodium
• Dessert: Chili’s Chocolate Chip Paradise Pie with Vanilla Ice Cream: 1,600 calories, which equals three Big Mac

Eat This, Not That! is mainly a picture book, so it should be easy enough to understand for people whose brains are high on high-fructose corn syrup.

[via Lifehacker]

November 7, 2007

Today’s my rest day from exercising. I’m coming to appreciate them more now that I’m exercising four days a week. The day off means it’s time to get groceries. My list looks so much different now than it did six months ago. There are items on there that I’d have never thought about before. Yams? Ground turkey? Are you kidding?

I don’t know if I haven’t eaten enough calories today or what, but I’m wiped out. It’s also really quiet in the office, so that might have something to do with it.

I need to find some new music to exercise to. The stuff on my mp3 player is getting kinda old. Not old as in years (that too), but old as in overplayed.

October Gone

I can’t believe that October is already gone. The time flies by so fast. Thanksgiving is just around the corner and Christmas won’t be far behind. I’m not looking forward to shopping. It wouldn’t be so bad if I knew what to get everyone…but I really don’t have any clue.

The first week of phase II of the diet didn’t show much change. I lost a bit of body fat, so at least I didn’t go backwards. I’m finding it really hard to eat. I just haven’t been hungry lately.

We’re down to 20 ewes with a few more people to come look at them. Although I’m sad to see them go, I’ll be glad when it’s done.

Diet Phase I Complete

Well, I’ve made it past the first 12 weeks of the diet. Results:

Lost 10 lbs of weight.
Lost 21.91 lbs of body fat.
Gained 11.91 lbs of lean muscle mass.

Not too bad. I’ve already started Phase II. Since stock shows are over and we’re working towards selling the sheep, my time to spend at the gym is hopefully going to increase. I’ve gone down a pants size and cleaned out some of the “huge” shirts out of the closet. I’m hoping to reach my goal by my birthday (February 16).

Slowing Progress

My diet progress has slowed down in the past two weeks, but so has my cardio workouts. I skipped a few because of shearing and getting cows out of the creek caused by the tropical weather we had. I’m back on schedule this week and I’m going to increase it and see if that makes a difference.

Here are the totals so far:
Body Weight Loss	5 lbs
Body Fat Loss	12.99 lbs
Lean Body Mass Gain	7.99 lbs

Week 3

I’ve slowed down on losing this week, although my middle “feels” quite a bit smaller, but I still lost some fat and gained some muscle. I bought a smaller belt Monday, but I didn’t buy small enough. I’m already close to the last hole.

What crazy weather we have had. The “tropical storm” came through Saturday night/Sunday morning and Oklahoma was flooded. The Washita River is totally out of it’s banks around here. A lot of people had their houses flood. Unfortunately there were also deaths. My heart goes out to those families.

Diet Update

The diet is going well. I lost almost 5 more pounds of fat. Didn’t gain as much muscle as last week, but I didn’t lose any either, so I can’t complain. Going to have to put another hole in my belt. I’m thinking I might just have to get a new one…

Sheared the show lambs last weekend and they look gooood. But I can never tell how good they really are until we get to the first show.

Man, it’s hot. The seasons seem to be skewed. We’re now having the middle of summer when we should, it seems, be winding down. We could use another rain as well. You wouldn’t have thought we’d say that after the first of the summer, but like my Grandpa always said “In Oklahoma, don’t cuss the rain cause it’s gonna stop one day and it’ll be a long time before it comes again”…..or something like that.

New Diet

Welllll, I started a new diet last week. It’s Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle by Tom Venuto. It’s a bodybuilding diet. It’s all about learning the right stuff to eat, and how much, with weight lifting and cardio. Yesterday was my weigh in day and I haven’t lost any weight….but I lost almost 5 lbs. of fat and gained that in muscle. It kinda makes me worry that I’m not reading the measurements right, but I do see a difference in my body shape. I still have a long way to go, but it’s definitely a step in the right direction.

Stock shows are getting ready to start up. I’ll be shearing the next two weekends to get ready for the first show the second week in September. The lambs are looking good and have been healthy so far this year. After last year, that’s a major accomplishment.