tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6289359003002998269.post1087427299109919399..comments2022-08-24T05:54:29.755-04:00Comments on just so long and long enough: slingshot.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6289359003002998269.post-91232827748867284382009-11-19T00:18:37.093-05:002009-11-19T00:18:37.093-05:00oh weight. how nobody likes you. I think I have se...oh weight. how nobody likes you. I think I have several different things to comment about.<br /><br />one is something I read in Barbara Kingsolver's book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. I love it. And she's talking about Americans' relationship with food and how we are taught to fear the dreadful pint of ben and jerry's or mcdonald's hamburger or twinkies and how natural it is that we should fear these things because we are so removed from their creations that they are foreign and strange to us. I have been thinking about that. About how, if I eat a burger and fries from mcdonalds I feel fat and gross but if I cook that same meal at home, I feel proud and satisfied.<br /><br />I kinda wish we did live in the days where the sheer effort of life kept you trim, where you burned all the calories you ate in food in the actual process of preparing it.<br /><br />That is my random food ramble for the day.<br /><br />On a different tangent, the thing I love about eating right and exercising is that it is never too late. Even the elderly could start a walking program right now and still get to see the health benefits of it. How wonderful that we can always go back. Everybody slips and falls and eats a whole pack of golden chocolate oreos in one day *cough*me*cough*, but we have each and every day in front of us as a chance to correct those mistakes. Granted, I'm not saying you should just not care about eating the whole pack of oreos, just that goals don't have to be met right now for you to be a success. I was reading this bio of a DU social work graduate who was in her forties and considering going to graduate school but hated the thought that if she did it part time (since she had to work) she wouldn't receive her masters until she was fifty. But then a friend told her, so what? you're going to get to fifty anyways, wouldn't you rather have a degree when you get there? and I love that idea. it might take us years to reach a goal, but those years are going to pass anyways so we might as well try.<br /><br />This might not have made as much sense or been as inspirational as I had hoped. Hmm.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com