I Eat Carbs

I was talking to my grandpa long ago and asked him what types of things are strange to him today.  I wanted to know what new ideas there are now that he finds peculiar from his day and time.  The first thing he said was “dog food”.  He went on to explain how it was crazy that people actually bought special food for a dog.  Nobody ever used to spend their hard earned money on food for a dog.  Dogs at scraps.  It was a dog.

Then he went on about the crazy things people eat and pay money to eat.  Caviar is nothing but fish eggs.  Fish eggs.  People buy water in a bottle when they’ve got water right inside their house.  And then he got started on diets.  Cookie diets.  No carbs diets.  Cleansing diets.  In his day, if you wanted to lose weight, you ate less, worked more.  Simple, but true.  I completely agree.

I’m just going to say it, “I eat carbs.”  My whole life I have been taught that carbohydrates are your energy foods, so it stands to reason that if you are not eating any carbs, your energy level will be low.  And I can’t imagine what a diet of all protein must do to your heart.  I have a friend who is only eating meat.  And I’m not talking about low fat meat like fish and chicken.  Any meat.  He’s eating sausage, bologna, pork chops, hot dogs.  It’s disgusting.  His carbohydrate count may be low, but his cholesterol must be out of sight! 

I had another friend who was doing the “cleansing” diet.  He was drinking tea, with lemon, cayenne pepper, and molasses.  He threw it up everytime.  I think we just need to listen to our bodies.  There’s not a body out there craving this concoction.  Not my kind of weight loss diet.

And it’s not rocket science.  If you eat more calories than you burn, you will gain weight.  Simple.  We are a lazy people.  Just get up and move.

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