How Jeremy Lin and Lebron James May Be Making You Fat

A Day In The Nutritional Life Of An Average American?

Happy 7-11!!!!   July is such an awesome time.    Americans start the month by celebrating their independence and for many July is  the last full summer month before kids head back to school so there are lots of vacations time planned.  The World Cup helped enhance the month of July this year along with some guy named Lebron James who just may steal the spotlight during Sunday's World Cup Final as it is rumored that he will be in attendance. 

What's  fascinating about Lebron James is how everyone seems to have a strong feeling about him one way or the other.    There are a lot of Lebron haters out there but then at the same time there are a lot of Lebron lovers who in some cases are also bandwagon fans (see p.s.).     Okay, so in the event that you were really busy today or just not concerned about sports, NBA phenom Lebron James decided to go back to the Cleveland Cavaliers after a four year two championship hiatus in Miami wearing number six for the Heat.    The following story is a fictional account of how a typical American and possible emotional eater may have allowed today's circumstances to determine their nutritional choices.  Enjoy. 

Jumpin' Jack is a huge Jeremy Lin fan, Lakers Fan and Lebron James fan.  He also likes Tim Tebow and still makes it a point to Tebow every time something unexpectedly fantastic happens to him.    Today's news about James going back to Cleveland and  Lin getting traded to the Lakers made Jack super excited and he felt a need to celebrate.     One of his Facebook pals posted something about how 7-11 was giving away free Slurpee's today in  honor of July 11th.     Jack just had Chick-fil-A a few hours prior but he rationalized all of the exciting news as a good excuse to follow-up that meal with a free Slurpee, plus he didn't have breakfast because he never eats breakfast as he just doesn't get hungry until later in the day.    Funny side story is that Jack dressed up like a cow in order to get his Chick-fil-A for free, good thing he just happened to have last years Halloween costume in his car, darn fast food restaurants and the hoops they make one jump through just to get a free meal.    The gall of some places!!!

Jack's next caloric intake after the Slurpee was some movie popcorn saturated in so much butter than it was double  bagged  that he shared with his loving girlfriend Marvelous Martha who really wanted to see Dawn Of The Planets Of the Apes.     After the movie Martha and Jack had some appetizers and a couple drinks at the local sports bar where Jack pretty much ignored Martha paying more attention to the sports wrap and their analysis of Lebron James, Jeremy Lin and this weekends World Cup Finals.     After they left the bar they happened to come across a Krispy Kreme doughnut shoppe and helped them celebrate their 77th Birthday by sharing a dozen doughnuts that they only had to pay 77 cents for. 

Now, I am not one to talk yet but I am at a level of conscious incompetence when it comes to healthy eating and realize that I, like Jumpin' Jack,  make imperfect nutritional choices by not having a plan, emotional eating and using the cost of food versus the nutritional value of food, etc.     Eventually, these habits will be replaced with empowering upward spiral habits but for the time being I am going to fill out the following form to see if I can be a Cleveland Cavaliers fan this upcoming NBA season. 

Until we read again, 

Jaxon

p.s.  

     

Room 222

Late Night Blog

From The Desk Of Mr. Obvious:

Late night blogging is much healthier than late night eating from a disgusting food from disgusting establishments who spend millions of dollars advertising to people who are up late.

Spending money on a gym membership is more rewarding and will have more long term benefits than spending twice as much money on an outing to the local watering hole with your buddies drinking egregious amounts of alcohol and fried foods. 

Progress is more important than perfection because you can always get better but you will never be perfect. 

Until we read again, 

Jaxon

p.s.    Great Advice:

p.p.s.     Go USA Tomorrow in their World Cup Game against Belgium

Sometimes Losing Is Another Form Of Winning: Day Four 86 To Go

So I watched the USA advance in the World Cup at work today on a far away television and despite them losing 1-Nil to Germany they still showed American fans clapping and celebrating after the game.    The fans were clapping because since Portugal beat Ghana they will now advance to play Belgium next Tuesday in the Sweet 16 version of the World Cup.     So in essence sometime winning in losing, right?

No exercise today because I have an hour long workout scheduled with the most wonderful person in the world tomorrow and a personal trainer (which at times could be considered as the least wonderful person in the world). 

Nutritionally I did beat up the burger as I didn't eat one and I uniquely fasted between my first meal and 11:00 am.    There was a good reason for doing this at the time but I don't quite recall what it was at the time of this writing.    Here is my nutritional intake for the day:  Candy bar for breakfast (I know, healthy the reason I ate this was because there was a candy bar in my desk drawer which was given to me the day prior),   Chicken Quesidilla with onions, jalapenos and bell peppers at 11:00am, had some peanut butter around 12:30pm, some chips around 3 and this awesome Puerto Rican Rice Lasange with Chicken a little after 5pm.    Again not a nutritionally brilliant day but satisfied none the less. 

Until we read again, 

Jaxon