This is the kind of article I used to avoid like the plague. I knew (know?) I ate like crap, but I didn't really care to do anything about it. I'm what you would refer to as a...finnicky eater. I only like a (very) limited number of foods, most of which were much easier (and tastier) to get from a fast food restaurant. I've been eating somewhat better since we moved to Oregon, mostly because I'm working from home, so It's much easier to have an enjoyable lunch that doesn't involve running out to Wendy's or McDonald's. That's not to say that I've even been eating that well in the 8 months we've been here, but it's definitely leaps and bounds better than I was eating in NJ. However, for the past few weeks I've made a conscious decision to cut a lot of the crap out of my diet. I've done this before, but I always gave up and went back to junk within a week or so. Hopefully I'll keep it up this time. I suspect I'll have some inspiration when I get the results of my blood test back. I should be taking odds on how high my cholesterol is.
To get back to the article that inspired this, it's very long, but pretty interesting. It discusses the evolution of the human diet from the hunter-gatherer days forward, how our caloric intake has increased dramatically over the past 50 years while physical activity has decreased just as dramatically. I'm as guilty of this (if not more) as the next person. I don't believe in fad diets like Atkins though. It's amazing what the tried-and-true eat-less-exercise-more diet can do for you. I hope that I can look at this post a year from now and not be embarrassed by it because I gave up eating well and exercising a week into the future. Maybe by then I'll actually have been able to read Fast Food Nation like Robin has been trying to get me to do for years now.
Posted by joshua at May 26, 2004 02:53 PM