Today's rant on junk food blogging

I read a ton of other blogs for my own self-interest. They range from candy blogs, to horse blogs, to lifestyle blogs (exercise, weight loss, travel).

One thing I noticed, for those who wrote about active lifestyle blogs were often on a journey of weight-loss as well--and they all wrote about fast food. They proclaimed their (former or current) love of it, spoke about eating out at restaurants or fast-food joints 3X a week at least. They ate out for breakfast, lunch or dinner. They would visit one drive-thru (and oddly, a ton of them went through drive-thrus, never walk-ins. peculiar) and pick up a hamburger, fries and a coke, and then go to the Taco Hell and pick up a taco meal. They would consume all this food for one meal. Or, they'd have lunch at home, go to McDonald's for a 'snack' in the mid-afternoon consisting of a hamburger and fries and a pie--and then proceed to go home and eat a full dinner. ???? Do people really rely on fast food this much? How is this sane?

They ate in their car, not sitting down at a table. They would make special trips out to buy fast food junk, even if they had a perfectly good amount of food at home. Commercials triggered these impulse trips to get fries or a burger, apparently (it does--more on this below).

Also, eating out, whether it's junk or a good restaurant, is almost always unhealthy, and incredibly expensive. Two fast-food meals for dinner really adds up! Not to mention the toll you're paying on your body.

I even read some pretty silly entries, like how one person, in an attempt to curtail snacking while baking, was going to stop baking. But she would first make some holiday sugar cookies for a party--except, she bypassed the sugar cookie dough in the freezer section at the grocery store accidentally, so now she couldn't make the cookies. First of all, you buy dough to make sugar cookies? There's practically nothing in them. How lazy can you get to buy dough to make the cookies, and if you can't buy it, throw your hands up in helplessness 'oh, can't make them, too bad.' If you are this helpless at making holiday cookies, how does it translate to your real life? Take some ownership, people!

This, dear readers, is how people end up huge.

Also, I was watching TV yesterday (a novelty, since I don't have cable) and was astounded at how many fast-food joints commercials there were--yeah, it's been awhile since I watched TV. Wendy's "sea-salt natural fries" Pizza Hut ''full-family meal deals" McDonalds--everything, "KFC's ''crispy bucket meals'' Dairy Queen's flame-broiled burgers. It.never.ends. And these would run all together, so it's like a never-ending swarm of junk food on parade (MuchMusic channel, yeah I know, my first mistake).

Jeebus. No wonder people are fat.