Lately I'm so annoyed by the area I live in. I'm surrounded by overweight people and fast food and too much tv. It drives me crazy how lazy people are here.
The last two days I've had to push my reluctant boyfriend to walk with me after dinner. It's a measly 20 minute walk but at least its something. There aren't many good places to walk because there are too many cars and this city is built for cars, not for people. It's also built for fast food, not for cooking. The other day me and my boyfriend wanted to bbq and get some fresh bread instead of picking up taco bell or the like. Get this: it took one hour and a half to find food because A) traffic is awful and B) the stores didn't have what we were looking for. It's too urban here. There is no such thing as natural anymore, at least here.
I'm kinda annoyed with my boyfriends food choices and general perception of eating mostly becuase he fits the description of most american lifestyles. He eats lots of fatty food and almost no vegetables or fruits. For him fruit = jamba juice. French fries and tortilla chips are "good filler foods." Del taco and In and Out are among his favorite foods. And after dinner he prefers to veg in front of the tv. He considers walking around target exercise. I'm annoyed because I love him and I can see that his choices are probably gonna shorten his life. And I would like him to be around as long as possible. Maybe I'm selfish but I want him to be around for me.
I am convinced that there is no way to lose weight living here. Most of the weight I have lost has been the result of going overseas and living a different lifestyle. I've managed to maintin my current weight of 175 for about 5 months and in a week I'll be out of the country again. I expect to lose another 10 to 15 pounds while I'm away. I hope this trip I'm taking with my bf will open his eyes and show him that there are better ways to live. I am 20 now and I've been trying to live healthier since I was 13. Every friend I invited to exercise with me has bailed. My food choices are considered unhealthy because apparently my perception of a healthy diet is not enough food. I think it's rediculous how bad this culture has gotten about it's health. People look at girls like Hilary Duff and accuse them of being anorexic. I'm sorry but hilary looks just fine to me. I think she looks anorexic to some ppl because they don't know anyone who is at a healthy weight.
I hate reading articles in the newspaper that say people should "turn off the tv and get moving instead" because doing that is not enjoyable at all in such an urban area. I can't even walk through my neighborhood without fearing that I'll be run over by a drunken idiot or attacked by a pit bull. Yeah, it could be worse. I could be fearing that I'll be shot but the drunk idiot and dog wouldn't be such a problem if there were more space for the amount of people that live here. It is too damn crowded. I hate people's perception of exercise too. Treadmils and gyms and tae bo tapes. wtf. Go for a walk. Try ditching your car for a while or take your bike instead. Walk to the supermarket. Take the bus. I take back the walking to the supermarket thing because food is sold in unmanagably heavy sizes that cannot be carried home on a 15 minute walk. I have a market right around the block, maybe a 10 minute walk but i cant walk there because of the food sizes and also I'd have to walk through a gang-ridden alley to get to it. This is the suckiest place for trying to be healthy. When I finish school I think I'm going to move away.
I remember in high school they made writing essays a part of PE. WTF. PE is Physical Education, not written education. There is a reason that English is taught as a separate class. And the PE period was about 45 minutes long. Subtract 20 minutes for changing clothes and calling roll and stretching and you only get 25 minutes left of physical activity. Most of which is used to teach ridiculously slow sports like bowling and golf and racket ball. I remember being taught these things and told to follow the rules of the game. I don't understand why they see it so important to teach rules and not just teach you to be active and have fun doing it. I dunno if its the teachers or the regulations that cause this bullshit but something needs to be uncorrupted. If I wanted to learn how to bowl I could go to a bowling alley. Or play miniature golf.
I rememeber taking PE in summer school one year to get it out of the way. I took 2 semesters worth in 6 weeks. 5 hours of PE a day. Hard work but fun and so rewarding. There was hardly any classroom time and we did lots of useful things like stretching and floor exercises and running and more active sports like baseball and basketball. I wish I could do it again. Sunburns and all becuase that was probably the healthiest time of my life. I almost wanted to be in the military just for the exercise part of it. The only bad thing about that summer was that I hurt my back doing push ups. The teacher told me to stop doing them but I didn't wanna stop becuase I was doing so good. I mean I don't have that drive anymore. This culture takes away your life. Im not saying its the worst, cuz it could be much worse but why not try to improve?
The last two days I've had to push my reluctant boyfriend to walk with me after dinner. It's a measly 20 minute walk but at least its something. There aren't many good places to walk because there are too many cars and this city is built for cars, not for people. It's also built for fast food, not for cooking. The other day me and my boyfriend wanted to bbq and get some fresh bread instead of picking up taco bell or the like. Get this: it took one hour and a half to find food because A) traffic is awful and B) the stores didn't have what we were looking for. It's too urban here. There is no such thing as natural anymore, at least here.
I'm kinda annoyed with my boyfriends food choices and general perception of eating mostly becuase he fits the description of most american lifestyles. He eats lots of fatty food and almost no vegetables or fruits. For him fruit = jamba juice. French fries and tortilla chips are "good filler foods." Del taco and In and Out are among his favorite foods. And after dinner he prefers to veg in front of the tv. He considers walking around target exercise. I'm annoyed because I love him and I can see that his choices are probably gonna shorten his life. And I would like him to be around as long as possible. Maybe I'm selfish but I want him to be around for me.
I am convinced that there is no way to lose weight living here. Most of the weight I have lost has been the result of going overseas and living a different lifestyle. I've managed to maintin my current weight of 175 for about 5 months and in a week I'll be out of the country again. I expect to lose another 10 to 15 pounds while I'm away. I hope this trip I'm taking with my bf will open his eyes and show him that there are better ways to live. I am 20 now and I've been trying to live healthier since I was 13. Every friend I invited to exercise with me has bailed. My food choices are considered unhealthy because apparently my perception of a healthy diet is not enough food. I think it's rediculous how bad this culture has gotten about it's health. People look at girls like Hilary Duff and accuse them of being anorexic. I'm sorry but hilary looks just fine to me. I think she looks anorexic to some ppl because they don't know anyone who is at a healthy weight.
I hate reading articles in the newspaper that say people should "turn off the tv and get moving instead" because doing that is not enjoyable at all in such an urban area. I can't even walk through my neighborhood without fearing that I'll be run over by a drunken idiot or attacked by a pit bull. Yeah, it could be worse. I could be fearing that I'll be shot but the drunk idiot and dog wouldn't be such a problem if there were more space for the amount of people that live here. It is too damn crowded. I hate people's perception of exercise too. Treadmils and gyms and tae bo tapes. wtf. Go for a walk. Try ditching your car for a while or take your bike instead. Walk to the supermarket. Take the bus. I take back the walking to the supermarket thing because food is sold in unmanagably heavy sizes that cannot be carried home on a 15 minute walk. I have a market right around the block, maybe a 10 minute walk but i cant walk there because of the food sizes and also I'd have to walk through a gang-ridden alley to get to it. This is the suckiest place for trying to be healthy. When I finish school I think I'm going to move away.
I remember in high school they made writing essays a part of PE. WTF. PE is Physical Education, not written education. There is a reason that English is taught as a separate class. And the PE period was about 45 minutes long. Subtract 20 minutes for changing clothes and calling roll and stretching and you only get 25 minutes left of physical activity. Most of which is used to teach ridiculously slow sports like bowling and golf and racket ball. I remember being taught these things and told to follow the rules of the game. I don't understand why they see it so important to teach rules and not just teach you to be active and have fun doing it. I dunno if its the teachers or the regulations that cause this bullshit but something needs to be uncorrupted. If I wanted to learn how to bowl I could go to a bowling alley. Or play miniature golf.
I rememeber taking PE in summer school one year to get it out of the way. I took 2 semesters worth in 6 weeks. 5 hours of PE a day. Hard work but fun and so rewarding. There was hardly any classroom time and we did lots of useful things like stretching and floor exercises and running and more active sports like baseball and basketball. I wish I could do it again. Sunburns and all becuase that was probably the healthiest time of my life. I almost wanted to be in the military just for the exercise part of it. The only bad thing about that summer was that I hurt my back doing push ups. The teacher told me to stop doing them but I didn't wanna stop becuase I was doing so good. I mean I don't have that drive anymore. This culture takes away your life. Im not saying its the worst, cuz it could be much worse but why not try to improve?
posted by mythreefeet at
4:54 AM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home