yeah, so that didn't last long. as predicted last night, i didn't continue the cleanse today. i decided that not being in pain was more important than cleansing my body of impurities or whatever that crazy dude says about it. so i had a pretzel dog [not so good] and a cheese log [delicious] at the amish market for lunch, and went off to the mall to take care of some business. i was there to get my wife's ring fixed, because one of the prongs was chipped, and to see what stores were hiring to see if i can land a part-time job. i figure i'm at the mall so often, i might as well work there [insert mallrats reference] so yeah.
some tea shop called teavana is hiring, so i may look at that. kids gap [gag me] and american apparel are hiring. on top of the fact that i don't support american apparel because their company is terrible and hires illegal immigrants to make their shirts, i'm definitely not enough of a hipster to work there. they actually ask you to send in photos of yourself with your resume. that should tell you something. actually, it should tell you a lot of things. all of them bad.
during the hour it took to fix christin's ring, i decided to take a walk, which i had already kind of done so i ended up in border's. there was a huge promo display for mockingjay, so being the total conformist i am [lolol] i decided to pick up and read the first two chapters of the hunger games. it was really good, and now i want to read the rest of the book and the other books and such. and i will probably end up buying the boxed set, but i can't really buy it now. so i'll probably just read it whenever i've got free time and decide that hanging out at a bookstore is a super fun way to spend a few hours at a time. because it totally is. it totally is.
man, i'm a huge nerd. love it.
i got the ring and headed home through ridiculous traffic in light rain, and hit the grocery store on the way home. i got some healthy snacks [well, relatively healthy] and other stuff at fresh market [who is also hiring] and safeway. then i came home and christin cooked stir-fry that took way too long to make. i didn't like it because she used tofu, which is squishy and nasty in my mouth, but it would've been great with chicken. the green beans and peas and the sauce were great, though. yummers. then i did my homework and such.
my new diet is basically this: no soda, no fast food, one sweet per day. if i can handle all three of those and get my weight down through that and exercise [which shouldn't take long, because i have excellent metabolism when not gorging myself with all three], i may start drinking one soda per day like i said i would before. but no high fructose corn syrup or corn sugar or whatever the corporate machine wants to call it next. yep. pepsi throwback, baby! it's good. anyway, that's the gist of it. tomorrow i'll be working on the sketch i recorded weeks ago and started editing last week, and i will make a video response to dan brown on my second channel!
If you are going to avoid HFCS then you will want to avoid anything that has cooked sugar since it's the exact same thing. melt some sugar and you get HFCS. only difference between the two is you can control the amount of glucose and fructose you add rather than the fixed amount that's in sugar. it also is easier to cook with.
ReplyDeletei don't know where you read that hfcs is just cooked sugar, but you're misinformed. ;-P hfcs comes from a completely different plant [corn] than sugar [cane], and it is genetically modified to include a higher volume of fructose than glucose, which is the whole problem with it and other refined sugars. i don't normally add either sugar or corn syrup to anything i cook, so i don't think i'll have the cooking problem. besides, regular corn syrup [which is almost entirely glucose or dextrose] is also a viable option, just not the high fructose kind.
ReplyDeleteI think my last comment never got posted. but yeah.
ReplyDeleteI'm just saying you should avoid reversed sugars since they are the same thing as HFCS. I learned about HFCS in college, my nutrition teacher.
sugar and HFCS are the same thing with different bonds. HFCS is not worse than sugar. they both make you fat.