{"id":1905,"date":"2004-05-12T08:50:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-12T08:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog2\/?p=1905"},"modified":"2004-05-12T08:50:00","modified_gmt":"2004-05-12T08:50:00","slug":"from_the_soapbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/from_the_soapbo\/","title":{"rendered":"from the soapbox"},"content":{"rendered":"

my camera hasn’t been out of the bag in weeks. i’m not sure what’s going on, but i just can’t seem to get excited about making pictures. everything lately has been crap and i haven’t gone anywhere new to inspire me. i’m trying desperately to not un-convince myself that buying a new camera (this<\/a> or this<\/a>, i haven’t decided yet) is the answer to my creative block. i realize throwing money at it isn’t going evaporate my funk, but i really would love to have a shiny new camera to play with.
\nlast night, instead of doing my homework, i exercised. that’s a good trade, right? considering i was close to spending the entire evening sacked out on the futon, rotting my brain. it’s nights like that which convince me i really need to cancel my cable.
\nso, low-carb\/atkins\/south beach\/zone diets are all over the place. you can’t throw a bagel in any direction without hitting something that says “net carbs” or “atkins friendly”. i used to get so upset at people who would preach about the evil of carbs or disgusted at those who would gorge on greasy protein foods without regard for their arteries. then those big red “A”s started showing up in my grocery fliers and in restaurant menus. i wanted to scream “carbs aren’t bad for you, dammit!” each time i saw one.
\nthen i realized, this is just like the low-fat fad in the 90’s. susan powter and the other fat-is-bad advocates got people all riled up and suddenly everything and anything was proclaimed to be low-fat and therefore good for you to eat. snackwell’s, baked lays, low-fat ice cream, low-fat milk, low-fat butter, low-fat oil. you get the idea, but how many of you are willing to give up your aspertame-sweetened products now? i know i’m not!
\ntimes haven’t really changed either. people are still getting swept up in the “fad” and not really learning anything about proper nutrition. in the low-fat days, people stopped eating full-fat versions of foods and substituted the lower-fat, but higher in sugar and other crap, versions. usually eating MORE of them because, hey! they’re low-fat! they must be good for me! they disregarded the fact that the food manufacturers just substituted the fat for more chemicals to mimic the mouth-feel of fat. yeah, it had fewer calories per servings, but i don’t think anyone can say it was any better for you.
\ntoday, people are eating anything and everything that says low-carb or atkins friendly without any concern for their total caloric intake. no matter how you slice it, any of those carb-conscious plans are calorie restrictive and that’s how you lose weight. if you eat too many eggs fried in butter with your liver tartare you’re not going to lose. have you seen those atkins advantage bars? they’re equivalent to 5 weight watchers points and have absolutely no dietary fibre! no wonder people on atkins are constipated and cranky.
\ndon’t even get me started about all the atkins-recommended supplements, either.
\nmy complaint is, and always has been, that people just take everything at face value. they don’t seem to understand that there’s a HUGE difference between the carbs in brown rice and the carbs in a donut or the carbs in broccoli and the carbs in candied yams. just like there’s no point in eating twice as many low-fat cookies because they may have less fat, but they have just as many calories.
\nhey, i’m not saying i wasn’t a victim of the same mentality, or that i still don’t justify a binge because the crap i’m stuffing into my face is “healthier” than the alternative; but, at the very least, i KNOW i’m fooling myself and have very few misconceptions about what my body actually needs to reach a healthy weight and repair the damage i’ve done to it over its lifetime.
\ntoo much of anything (carbs, fat or protein) is what makes you fat. eliminating an entire building block of nutrition can’t be good for you. moderation and variety (thanks mercy<\/a>), although boring and slow, is the only real way to eat healthfully.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

my camera hasn’t been out of the bag in weeks. i’m not sure what’s going on, but i just can’t seem to get excited about making pictures. everything lately has been crap and i haven’t gone anywhere new to inspire me. i’m trying desperately to not un-convince myself that buying a new camera (this or …<\/span> Read More →<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}