Rain on the Weekends...

This is seriously the crappiest spring ever. Every weekend except for one has been rainy, and that one weekend I spent sick from saturday morning till monday morning when I felt great in time for work.. This weekend is forcast to be cold and rainy, I looked today, it appears they are predicting more rain next weekend. I would also like to mention that every weekday except for today has been beautiful!

/Rant on

I bought a new type of protein bar this morning, because it was $1.50 for 30g of protein, and loaded with other nutritional substances. As I was reading through the ingredients I was surprised to find High Fructose Corn Syrup, on this list! This shit is the devil, and unless it's in Big Red, it makes me stab people! Needless to say theres a gentleman stuffed under my desk bleeding profusely, and soon will be "sleeps in blood". Really though, I don't understand why this artificial sweetener would be found in anything procured from the health food section.

I don't much concern myself with diet, except for making sure I consume as much protein and complex carbohydrates as my budget will allow, but I do my best to avoid artificial sweeteners, especialy HFCS. As far as I understand, your body does not process this properly and will either pass it through or store it indefinately. It also causes extreme physical violence! Note you will find HFCS in just about every beverage you consume on a daily basis(this is why kids are so violent, not video games!).

Heres a list of beverages I enjoy that use natural sweeteners.

-WATER (this shit is fuckin awesome and its free, ask your friends about it)
-Vitamin Water (my fav is XXX, and now in 32oz containers!)
-Fuze (much heartier than most you'll find on this list)
-Snapple flavored water
-Sobe flavored water
-Propel(made by Gatorade)
-Apple Juice (believe it or not almost every other juice found in convenient stores contains HFCS)
-Beer...nuff said

neutra-sweet, equal, and splenda all suck ass too. My favorite combo is using splenda in green or black tea. the tea being full of anti-oxidants(which cleans free radicals from the body) and splenda(which creates free radicals). So it's like drinking nothing!

I challenge you to go into a convenient store and find more than 5 types(counting all flavors of one product as 1) of beverages that do not contain HFCS. you may be surprised! We here in America fill ourselfs with such filth, it's disgusting. The scariest part about it is that everyone knows it but few care to shrug off convenience for health.

If you're worried about being fat, flabby, overweight, obese, tre fabia or any other term you might use. Do yourself a favor, next time you get your coffee from starbucks, pick up a pack of pure cane sugar instead of the pink, blue, or yellow package. It's ussually tan and larger than the rest and go figure, it tastes better! But what about those extra calories Rob?!? Calories = Energy, so if you consume them you must burn them, use this energy! Some people burn calories easier than others. Exercize regularly and eat smaller portions more often, this will increase your metabolism. not to mention make you stronger, more fit, and feel better about yourself. I don't care what you look like, if you feel fit and able. You will enjoy life much more.

/Rant off