The Weak In Rock

I don’t want to work. I don’t want to do anything.

Scratch that. I want to watch superhero movies until my eyeballs turn to goo. I was actually looking at the DVD of “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” the other day and thinking how much I’d like to watch it. (Yes, I bought the DVD of one of the least-loved superhero films of all time - so?)

So, back’s still messed up, but it’s a little better since I backed off on my PT exercises and got an inversion table. Not gonna have much in the way of fitness advice for you folks until this thing gets healed. Although, I will say that the notion that maintaining your weight and body composition is 80% diet is being well born out by my current situation. I’m getting precisely no exercise at all and my weight and body composition haven’t budged in months.

Maybe I should start posing recipes. ;-)

I was doing some grocery shopping today and encountered one of the dumbest things I have ever seen - an entire row of food-like substances whose labels were cheerfully advertising that the comestibles inside featured “Zero Calories.”

Now, if you’re trying to lose weight, this might seem attractive and sensible. Let me tell you, folks, it really, really isn’t. There is no reason on dog’s green earth why you should ever deliberately ingest anything other than water that has no nutritional value. It’s equally ludicrous to eat junk food, overflowing with calories, that contains no nutritive properties as it is to ingest something with no nutritive value that has no calories.

We eat food because it provides fuel for our bodies. Eating something that provides no calories means you are ingesting something which provides no fuel. That’s not food. Stay away from food-like substances. Eat food. Like Michale Pollan suggests, eat food, mostly plants, not too much. It’s really that simple. We need to feed our bodies. Heck, my dog knows when she’s eaten enough and stops. Try it sometime. You don’t need to trick your body into thinking it’s been fed when it hasn’t.