Picture Show: Visions of Fast Food

Here is a link to an art show which features photos of fast food.

From the photos I would give up some of my favorites.

Drinks to Avoid

Two years ago, Eat This, Not That! exposed the 20 Unhealthiest Drinks in America. The list was bad in the scary, jaw-dropping sense: Belt-busting beverages that tipped the scales at over 1,000 (and sometimes, 2,000) calories; hundreds of grams of blood-glucose-spiking sugar, and a slew of unnatural and exotic-sounding additives.

Here are list of the worst:

WORST FLOAT
Baskin-Robbins Large Ice Cream Soda with Vanilla Ice Cream Float (32 ounces)
960 calories
40 g fat (25 g saturated, 1.5 g trans)
136 g sugars

WORST ICE BLENDED COFFEE DRINK
Così Gigante Double OH! Arctic (23 ounces)
1,210 calories
19 g fat
259 g carbohydrates


WORST SMOOTHIE
Smoothie King’s The Hulk, Strawberry (40 ounces)
2,088 calories
70 g fat (32 g saturated)
240 g sugars

THE WORST DRINK IN AMERICA
Cold Stone Creamery Gotta Have It PB&C Shake
2,010 calories
131 g fat (68 g saturated)
153 g sugars

Sherri Shepherd's Trainer Catches Her Cheating on Diet – Online

Shepherd, 42, tweeted on Sunday that she "messed up a little last night ... had fried calamari and fried catfish – gotta stay away from the soul food! Back on track today – gym at 3 pm."

But before she could make up for her transgressions, she'd been discovered. "Ain't this a blip! I was planning on fibbing 2 my trainer & nutritional coach about what I ate this weekend – but they follow me," she tweeted later that day.

It was a lesson learned for Shepherd about not giving away too much on Twitter. "You just assume when you tweet that you're tweeting to people far away, not the person – your neighbor across the hall," Shepherd said on The View. "I wish my coach would have not tweeted because she's coming here tomorrow to get on me about what I ate."

See technology will force people to get honest or it will cause a lot of people to get caught up in their lies.

I think it is important to be real with your personal trainer and other health professionals. You are only hurting your progress when you try to lie. If you can't get honest with these people you need to change your health network to people you can be honest with.

Obsessive Food Blogging?

So, I found a blog where this pastry chef/wellness advocate posts everything she eats in a day. Now, she's skinny. I'm not. Of course, I'm trying to not-diet my way to a healthier relationship with food/weight. I've stopped food journaling, point counting, calorie counting (though since I practically have a doctorate in Diet Culture, I am able to gauge what is theoretically a reasonable portion of food and a day's allotment of calories--so, its not like I'm doing "intuitive eating" in the dark.)

I've always been facinated with what other people ate--particularly, what do skinny chicks eat? Seriously, what do they eat? This lady lays it all out there--and quite frankly, I eat similarly in many ways. For example, the yogurt above. It is Greek Yogurt (Chobani from Fresh Market--the most dangerous place on earth). Its got, 140 calories, 14 grams of protein--mixed in there is Bare Naked Peak Protein Granola, Blueberry Walnut. Combined, its a really satisfying breakfast, very creamy and sustaining. This morning I also had a Luna Bar, Oatmeal Raisin (but I forgot to take a picture of it). I had that after helping out with registration at a PD event for teachers/student teachers. There were piles of donuts (and I resisted them primarily because I'm having Gluten issues) and I've had to be up extra-early this week to accomodate flextime, but other than today, the yogurt/granola combo (plus English Breakfast Tea make with a bit of 1/2 & 1/2 and splenda) cuts it until lunch. So, if you're looking for a new breakfast idea that is convenient and sustaining, I do recommend the Greek Yogurt, Oikos makes a similar yummy on the go container, though its a bit more expensive than Chobani.