Tommy Boy has Spoken (Obesity in America)

I hate moes.
Chipotle is ok. But hot head burritos is my favorite. It'd based out of Ohio, hasn't made its way nationwide yet. It is really delicious.

 

Its one of my least favorite burrito joints, and its expensive. It is just all that is around.

 

KFC SON

 

Jumping in late here, but as someone who struggled with their weight pretty much my entire life I'll chime in.

I grew up pretty poor. A single-parent home. By now I think everyone knows the cheapest and most convenient foods(the kind a single, busy mother would buy) are the least healthy for you. Every Wednesday we'd go to McDonald's for 30 cent cheeseburger day and eat a couple days off of those things. I didn't really know anything different.

I can't entirely blame my mom for my bad habits when I was a kid. She had to do what she had to do, but it's not an ideal situation when it comes to a parent trying to teach a kid how to make the right choices when it comes to food.

My mom married my stepdad(who is also very overweight) and we weren't poor anymore, but the bad habits remained. Processed foods(chips, sugary cereal, ect.) were the norm in my house because that's what my parents had always bought and I didn't have the ability to go shopping for myself until about eight years after they got married(which would put me at 16). When my parents got married we moved to a fairly rural area where there aren't sidewalks or places within walking distance, so I couldn't do that for exercise.

I was always the fat kid. I was at my heaviest when I was probably 17. At a little over 5'8" I was carrying 240 lbs. I got down to about 185 a year later by just changing my diet. I stopped eating fast food totally until I decided I was at the point of eating it in moderation(I don't eat it anymore because I don't really feel like I'm missing anything).

After hovering around 180-185 for about four years I moved out of my parents house when I transferred to FSU. When I moved to Tallahassee EVERYTHING was within walking distance. If I wanted to go get something to eat I'd walk. When I went to class, I'd walk(my apartment was literally across the street from campus). My apartment was on the third floor, so I'd take the stairs every time I left and I'd the stairs every time I had a class on an upper floor. That **** adds up.

I started eating healthily; turkey sandwiches, chicken breast, eggs, tuna, steamed veggies, yogurt, apples/bananas, trail mix and whole wheat pasta. Nothing processed. I wouldn't go in to the middle of the grocery store because that's where the **** is.

When I graduated(from May 2010-August 2012) I was down to about 155. I moved back in to my parents' house after graduation and immediately gained ten lbs back. Processed food abound and my old habits came back. The differences between now and when I was a kid are that I have the ability to buy my own groceries and make my own decisions. I carved out a spot in the fridge for all of my food and had my own cabinet to store everything else. It's still hard having the chips, popcorn, and mom's cooking around and I still have lapses in control because of bad habits creeping back every now and then, but it's manageable for the most part.

I still stress-eat. I think I always will. I've been fairly stressed about not being able to find a decent job for the last four months. I try to chew like three pieces of spearmint gum at once when I'm not hungry to avoid it. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.

After gaining back those ten lbs my girlfriend and I started boxing and I'm back down to about 153, but a much healthier 153. I'm much more fit now.

After rereading that I see that it's fairly scatterbrained and I didn't really arrive at a point. I guess I'll summarize by saying that I think your parents are incredibly influential in developing your habits. Even after you have the ability as an adult to make your own decisions you're still falling back to old habits that were taught to you. The worst part is we will have an entire generation of people like me with childhood obesity rates rising. Their kids' generation will be worse and so on and so forth.

There needs to be a fundamental change in culture in this country when it comes to food and what we do with it.

 

What I get. Sweet Habanera sauce is the ****.

 

Breaking egg and making omelets huh?? hmmm.. is he trying to tell us they are opening up a Waffle House at LP? I still like the flaming sword idea but ill take an omelet too.. w/ hashbrowns splattered all the way, hold the ham.

 

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It is. What kinda meat do u get? I always get the spicy chicken. But I got the spicy pork the other day with the BBQ sauce and the sweet habanero and it was also incredible.


We just recently got chipotle here, it just doesn't compare to HHB, IMO. And chipotle seems to make a lot more money. Must be the reputation. Cause it isn't the food.

 

I'm not much on the spicy stuff, myself... just don't care for it. Honestly, I've kept it pretty simple and gone with the "taco meat" - ground beef - because I LOVE the way the rice, cilantro and sweet habanero sauce combine for flavor.

Good stuff.

Chipotle is the "McDonald's of mexican" so I understand why people flock there, good or not. That said, it's not bad. I eat it from time to time... but it simply pales in comparison to places like HHB.

 

I've never seen 30 seconds of BSG. I had to google to see wtf you were saying. I still have no idea what the "nu" is.