Hi everyone! Today is my final moving day! As you’re reading this, the movers are moving my bed and all the heavy things and I’m in my own place for good! Hooray!!
I spent most of the weekend moving, but I did go out and have fun a few times. Friday night I went to Uno’s and we ordered the Roasted Spinach, Eggplant & Feta pizza.
Please excuse the iphone pic. I forgot my camera (as usual). The pizza was just okay. It was a tad overcooked and they forgot the feta. The feta really makes the pizza so I was disappointed. Oh well, stuff happens. I had no problem stuffing my face.
Last night I watched a movie on Netflix called Fat Head. Tom Naughton wrote this film in response to SuperSize Me and the people who blame McDonalds for the nations obesity problem. Naughton’s main theme is that nobody forces anyone to eat fast food or to overeat. He demonstrates this by standing outside various fast food joints to see if anyone drags him in (they don’t) and he also tries to see if anyone comes around to force feed him food he didn’t order (they don’t). He eats three meals a day at fast food restaurants and only supersizes as much as Spurlock did in Supersize me. In order to lose weight he ate 2000 calories a day and walked for 45-60 minutes six nights a week. At his starting weight of 206lbs, 31.2% bodyfat, and a height of 5’11″, he was considered obese by our nation’s standards. I was surprised because he didn’t fit the image I have in my head of an obese person. He lost 12 pounds over 28 days and his cholesterol went down. The look on his doctor’s face is hilarious when he reads the results!
The next part of the movie, which I found more interesting than the first part, focused on carbs vs. fat and the glycemic index. He does a great job illustrating how certain foods are digested into sugar by putting up tablespoons of sugar next to specific carb-heavy foods. It might sound like it’s dumbing down, maybe it is, but the average person doesn’t spend their days reading healthy living blogs or food labels. I think examples like this are great for people like myself who are more visual and can understand things better if they can see it. His example might be oversimplifying a more complex macro-nutrient issue, but it works in giving people a new way to think of their health than the old 80′s NO FAT hysteria.
I really liked this movie. Unlike Spurlock, Naughton provides a complete food journal on his website where you can see his exact calorie counts and what he ate. While the movie may make some controversial claims, he uses science and humor to debunk them. Spurlock used a lot of assumptions without a lot of scientific evidence to back it up. I’m not saying the fast food industry is blameless, but I don’t think they’re responsible for America’s obesity problem. It all starts and ends with personal responsibility. What are your thoughts on fast food being blamed for obesity instead of personal responsibility?
