Another rant, imagining an ideal world.

I'm not one to fat-shame, but if your job requires you to be fit to do your duty....

I feel like there is a loop running in the back of my brain. Whenever I sit down to find a new topic to write about on this weekly blog, it gets a little louder: Regardless of right wing politicians who deny climate change to protect the interests of the energy concerns who pay their bills, insurance companies are reacting swiftly and with precision to the rising chances of losing their fortunes due to future flooding, black outs, famine and storms. And regardless of the propaganda put forward by Big Food that eating is a personal choice which government should keep from regulating or legislating, the fact is that people's habits of over consumption has caused a defined and real public health crisis. 

I've already written here about problems with child obesity and the military's problem with having a volunteer army that's fit enough to fight. Now the FBI has sounded the alarm about agents who are too fat to serve.

“The lives of your colleagues and those you protect may well depend upon your ability to run, fight and shoot, no matter what job you hold,” James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director, said in October in an internal memo to agents that was obtained by The New York Times.
The fitness tests, which started at the end of last year, are a return to a tradition begun by the F.B.I.’s first director, J. Edgar Hoover, who obsessed about his agents’ weight, as well his own considerable girth. More significantly, the tests are a response to concerns throughout the bureau about how its transformation after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, has put more stress on the agents and given them less time for fitness.

Over-consumption in our culture seems to have sneakily become synonymous with happiness, comfort, celebration, wealth and care. It should be synonymous with what it used to be associated with: gluttony, greed, sloth, laziness, waste, unfairness and imbalance. You just need to watch some commercials to see it. This feels like the same story over and over again, it's making feel a little bit batty!

In an ideal world, the culture of accountability put forward by he FBI and the military should expand to everyone -- accounts, lawyers, doctors, teachers, just about anyone will be a benefit to society if they are fit and eat right -- though it'll be at the expense of Big Food and the consumer culture. Do you want a gluttonous, overweight smoker as your primary care physician? Do you want someone who eats fast food 3 times a day teaching your child? You may be born a certain race or with a certain sexual preference, but socially shared self-destructive habits shouldn't be the basis of a protected class of people, no matter how hard manufacturers of fizzy corn syrup water try to associate their product with a vague concept of "freedom". Ill health is slavery. Those who profit from it are slave masters.

Freedom. (Feel free to replace soda cans & woman with guns and a corpse...)

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WEEKLY AVERAGE: 2667
Intense work week, in a good way. Depended on the rote eating habits to get me through,

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MONDAY COUNT: 2805

SLEPT: 11pm - 5:30am, 6.5hrs

AM SNACK: 5:45 am, iced green tea

BREAKFAST: 8am, apple/beet/celery/carrot/cayenne/cucumber/ginger juice, 160 cal

BREAKFAST 2: 11am, Steel cut oatmeal, 450 cal  

LUNCH: 2pm, falafel, split pea soup, health salad, pickle, 620 cal

PM SNACK: 4:45pm, momma salad, cheezits 310 cal

DINNER: 7pm, tilapia, asparagus,  poppa salad with dressing, 665 cal

EVENING SNACK: 7:45pm, popcorn, +/-400 cal

EVENING SNACK: 8pm, kind bar, 200 cal

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TUESDAY COUNT: 2500

SLEPT: 8:30pm- 5:15am, 8.75 hrs

AM SNACK: 5:30 am, iced green tea

BREAKFAST: 8am, apple/beet/celery/carrot/cayenne/cucumber/ginger juice, 160 cal

BREAKFAST 2: 11am, fage whole yogurt with honey, vanilla, almonds, 450 cal

LUNCH: 2pm, chicken meatballs, steamed string beans, lentil curry, pickles, 680 cal

PM SNACK: 4:45pm, momma salad, cheezits, 310 cal

DINNER: 7pm, pork tenderloin, brussel sprouts, poppa salad with dressing, ice cream, +/- 900 cal
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WEDNESDAY COUNT:3015

SLEPT: 9pm - 2am,  5 hrs

AM SNACK: 2:15 am, iced green tea

BREAKFAST 1: 7am, apple/beet/celery/carrot/cayenne/cucumber/ginger juice, 160 cal

BREAKFAST: 11am, steel cut oatmeal 450 cal

PM SNACK: 1:30pm, poppa salad with dressing, 180 cal

PM SNACK: 3pm, momma salad, cheezits 310 cal

PM SNACK: 5pm, cashews, 235 cal

DINNER: 6:15pm, Chipotle burrito, 880 cal

EVENING SNACK: 6:45pm, pint of ice cream, 800 cal
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THURSDAY COUNT: 2350

SLEPT: 8pm -3am, 3:30am- 5:30am,  9 hrs
Woke up to ride, but quickly realized I was overtired and could make myself sick without additional sleep.

AM SNACK: 5:45am, iced green tea

BREAKFAST: 6:30am, apple/beet/celery/carrot/cayenne/cucumber/ginger juice, 160 cal

BREAKFAST 2: 11am, Cabot yogurt with honey, vanilla, almonds, 500 cal

LUNCH: 2pm, work sandwich, poppa salad and dressing, +/- 480 cal

PM SNACK: 4pm, momma salad, cheezits, 310 cal

DINNER: 7pm, Meatball sangweech, salad, bruscetta, half a chocolate crepe, +/- 900 cal

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BIKE CREDIT: 320
FRIDAY COUNT: x

SLEPT: 12am-3am, 3 hours

AM SNACK: 3:15amam, iced green tea


BREAKFAST: 7:15am, apple/beet/celery/carrot/cayenne/cucumber/ginger juice, 160 cal

BREAKFAST 2: 11am, fruit smoothie, cal

LUNCH: 2pm, work sandwich, poppa salad and dressing, +/- 480 cal

PM SNACK: 4pm, momma salad, cheezits, 310 cal

DINNER: 7pm, pizza, ice scream, I don't quite remember, it's Sunday night writing this up and my brain is scrambled...