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Not Anorexic. Promise.
Mar. 12th, 2004 12:33 pmStarted watching what I eat lately, since I'm not getting near the workout I did every day at the zoo. Only recently did it occur to me just how much muscle tone I've lost, not lugging fifty-pound sacks of feed and buckets of fish around every day. I've been to the gym once or twice, but I hate it. HATE IT. I don't mind the exercise... but do I have to be bored while I exercise?
....Is it cheating to work out by playing lots of DDR?
Amusing thought #1: First we were supposed to count calories, then we were supposed to count grams of fat. Now it's carbs. I heard someone mention an interesting theory about the efficacy of the Atkins diet, the other day. He pointed out that when everyone first hopped on the low-carb diet, they were dropping 10-20 pounds, really quickly... because it was so hard to find low-carb food that they weren't eating nearly as much. Good, old-fashioned Denis Leary "put the fork down" dieting. Now, low-carb food is easy to come by, and the results aren't nearly so dramatic.
Amusing thought #2: One of the basic tenets of foraging is effort vs. returns: Put in the least effort for the greatest returns, and you are more likely to survive. That's why if you're a predator you go for the largest prey you can take down, instead of multiple smaller prey items. Less energy expended in foraging = more energy to live. Ah, but we.... we are so backwards. We have to find ways to expend extra energy. Oh, so amusing. (And what's more amusing is that the 'attractive' weight everyone's so obsessed with would probably be unhealthy if we were wild creatures. A little padding means you'll live through the winter, but society's trained us to go 'eeeeew!')
Humans are so stupid. Present company included.
This concludes our cynicism. Now, back to your regularly scheduled program.
....Is it cheating to work out by playing lots of DDR?
Amusing thought #1: First we were supposed to count calories, then we were supposed to count grams of fat. Now it's carbs. I heard someone mention an interesting theory about the efficacy of the Atkins diet, the other day. He pointed out that when everyone first hopped on the low-carb diet, they were dropping 10-20 pounds, really quickly... because it was so hard to find low-carb food that they weren't eating nearly as much. Good, old-fashioned Denis Leary "put the fork down" dieting. Now, low-carb food is easy to come by, and the results aren't nearly so dramatic.
Amusing thought #2: One of the basic tenets of foraging is effort vs. returns: Put in the least effort for the greatest returns, and you are more likely to survive. That's why if you're a predator you go for the largest prey you can take down, instead of multiple smaller prey items. Less energy expended in foraging = more energy to live. Ah, but we.... we are so backwards. We have to find ways to expend extra energy. Oh, so amusing. (And what's more amusing is that the 'attractive' weight everyone's so obsessed with would probably be unhealthy if we were wild creatures. A little padding means you'll live through the winter, but society's trained us to go 'eeeeew!')
Humans are so stupid. Present company included.
This concludes our cynicism. Now, back to your regularly scheduled program.
