This post is inspired by Seth Godin's post about snowglobes. His post talks about putting up a sign in everyone's way alerting travelers at airports that snowglobes are not allowed onboard the plane.
The point of the post is that because one careless person didn't think to check a snowglobe with his luggage, all travelers need to be alerted to the potential problem. How many times have you traveled with a snowglobe?
I have to say it is has never happened to me.
Look around you though at all the signs, warnings and rules we have because one person did something stupid. I love the warnings that say "do not eat" on those little freshening packets that come in your sneakers. Can you picture someone being dumb enough to say, "Oh wow, my new sneakers came with a snack!" I mean really...
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Monday, June 21, 2010
Fat People eat at Taco Bell
A little while ago I went with my family to Taco Bell. My kids love tacos but I am a vegetarian so I am not a big fan of the place.
There is nothing on the menu that I will eat so I just sit and sip water while my family eats. So to pass the time, I studied the people who were in the restaurant and what they were eating.
OMG, everyone was grossly overweight. It was like an ad for “why you shouldn’t eat at Taco Bell!” I watched men and women eating six tacos or more, chips covered with gooey cheese and slurp gigantic sodas.
My family was by far the skinniest there. We actually stood out. I was completely grossed out by watching the people around me. I kept thinking, “this is why America is fat.” Look at what we eat.
I got a good laugh from reading the fine print on the frozen juice drinks. They contain something like 3% juice. The rest is sugar and water. Gee - can’t wait to have some of that.
I wanted to run to each table and pull the food away. STEP BACK FROM THE TACOS.
There is nothing on the menu that I will eat so I just sit and sip water while my family eats. So to pass the time, I studied the people who were in the restaurant and what they were eating.
OMG, everyone was grossly overweight. It was like an ad for “why you shouldn’t eat at Taco Bell!” I watched men and women eating six tacos or more, chips covered with gooey cheese and slurp gigantic sodas.
My family was by far the skinniest there. We actually stood out. I was completely grossed out by watching the people around me. I kept thinking, “this is why America is fat.” Look at what we eat.
I got a good laugh from reading the fine print on the frozen juice drinks. They contain something like 3% juice. The rest is sugar and water. Gee - can’t wait to have some of that.
I wanted to run to each table and pull the food away. STEP BACK FROM THE TACOS.
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Friday, June 18, 2010
Recharging
As I sit here and write it is Friday afternoon. I am enjoying my last few minutes of quiet before my son gets off the bus and the daily family chaos begins.
I am feeling pretty good because I just finished a great week of working out. Saturday is my rest day and I am really looking forward to it.
The one thing I want to share with you today is to take time to recharge and enjoy moments of doing nothing. If you are like me you get a sense of accomplishment from barreling through your "to do" list.
I am feeling pretty good because I just finished a great week of working out. Saturday is my rest day and I am really looking forward to it.
The one thing I want to share with you today is to take time to recharge and enjoy moments of doing nothing. If you are like me you get a sense of accomplishment from barreling through your "to do" list.
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Entropy - The Disuse Syndrome
By Tom Venuto - author of Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle
Do you know what the word “entropy” means? In Webster’s, entropy is defined as, "The degradation of the matter and energy in the universe to an ultimate state of inert uniformity." Put more simply, entropy is the tendency of all matter to fall apart, wear out or disintegrate into the substance from which it came.
In some cases, using material things wears them out faster. Your car, for example, accumulates wear and tear and loses it's value when you put a lot of miles on it. Entropy occurs in the human body in the opposite fashion: It falls apart when it is NOT used. Differently stated, “Use it or lose it.”
Do you know what the word “entropy” means? In Webster’s, entropy is defined as, "The degradation of the matter and energy in the universe to an ultimate state of inert uniformity." Put more simply, entropy is the tendency of all matter to fall apart, wear out or disintegrate into the substance from which it came.
In some cases, using material things wears them out faster. Your car, for example, accumulates wear and tear and loses it's value when you put a lot of miles on it. Entropy occurs in the human body in the opposite fashion: It falls apart when it is NOT used. Differently stated, “Use it or lose it.”
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