Being Below Average
I need to report a theft.
Evidently, without my knowing, somebody stole….my….ICE CREAM.
I mean, that’s all I can figure out.
Y’all know I like to watch the cooking channel while I do my cardio.
Well, there was a special on ice cream Friday night. I learned all kinds of neat things about this cold and yummy treat!
But the thing that sticks out most in my mind was how much of it we eat a year. According to this special, the average American consumes twenty-four quarts of the stuff a year.
TWENTY-FOUR QUARTS!
My treadmill almost stopped when I heard this. I say almost, because y’all know what happens when you stop on the treadmill. You just kind of slide to the end. And that’s not cool, so I just kept walking in my shock.
I can tell you this; Adina does not have twenty-four quarts of it in a year. I guaran-dang-tee it.
I very rarely have things like ice cream. I love it, but it’s not worth the calories to me.
I suppose I used to eat that much, as hard as that is for me to admit.
I still like to look back and pretend I had a metabolism problem. And I suppose on some level I did. I wasn’t doing anything to allow my metabolism to work for me.
But I was hearing this as I was on the treadmill for the second time that day, and it had been a perfectly clean eating day for me.
And I would remember the words of that show when I got my coffee yesterday. I considered it a cheat when I added a splash of unplanned soy milk in the mix.
Yet somewhere, someone was gorging on ice cream. And more than likely wondering why they simply cannot lose any weight.
And I guess the answer is, to lose weight you must be below average.
Below average in time spent watching TV.
Below average in making excuses for why you can’t.
And for goodness sakes, below the national average in ice cream consumption.
February 16, 2009 at 4:32 am
U are absolutely right!!! To be ABOVE average you need to be below average in many aspects of your life!!!!
Keep on rockin!!!
:D
February 16, 2009 at 4:33 am
What is really scary is that the fact that you don’t eat any means that you drag down the average - there must be people consuming more than there fair share and wondering why they aren’t losing weight!
February 16, 2009 at 4:48 am
Oh yeah - I know several folks that have a bowl EVERY night while parked in front of the boob tube - often after some KFC, Burger King, etc. And it shows, too!
I still MUST get my fix, though. I have some every Sat. night. Gets that "jones" off my back for the rest of the week.
Don’t keep any in the house though - keeps me "honest."