Diet Idea

I thought of a new diet idea. It's called Fat Guy Diet:


If you want to loose weight but are just too stubborn to stick with anything on your own, that's where Fat Guy comes in. 


The diet is based around a really fat, really annoying guy. Every time you start to eat too much or eat the wrong thing, Fat Guy steals your food from you. You try to take another chip, Fat Guy snatches it right out of your hand. Sometimes Fat Guy will even sneak into your cabinets and refrigerator to see what he can find.


Sooner or later you get fed up and realize you're just feeding someone else the food that you bought. So, you start eating smaller portions and buying less food. Fat Guy pouts and moves on to the next household where he can steal food.


I have faith that this diet has potential.

A Documentary and I

A few days ago I watched King Corn, directed by Aaron Woolf, made in 2007. Two guys go to Iowa to plant an acre of corn, learn about the crop and the process, and follow their harvest into America's food.

Some fun facts I learned:

Corn in your food: Corn is the basis of so much crap that we eat everyday. In the documentary, the two guys, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, explained that their generation was the first to possibly have a shorter lifespan due to unhealthy eating. Since I am younger than them, I guess that means I'm a corn-fed goner too. Soda = corn. Mickey D's food = corn. It kinda makes me sick to think about.

Corn in your hair: The movie's slogan is "You are what you eat." The movie opened talking about the studies of the carbon in samples of human hair. Most of this generation's carbon comes from corn. Fancy that.

Corn, corn, everywhere!: Corn is made into high fructose corn syrup, but a lot of it is processed into feed for cattle, which also end up on our plates. Grass-fed cattle are a thing of the past. This documentary showed how subsidized farms push farmers to grow more and more corn, a process that's been going on since the 1970's when there was a change in farm policy.

The day after, I watched the follow-up to King Corn titled Big River. This one was about the flip side, the effects of fertilizer on the water, which includes drinking water and ultimately the water flowing from the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico. One quote that stuck with me was, “In communities along the gulf coast, bringing in an abundant catch of shrimp is as important culturally and economically as a two-hundred bushel harvest is in the Midwest.”

What do I eat with corn? Just for starters, Mountain Dew and Chef Boyardee were the main components of my dinner. (I don’t always eat so unhealthily.) 

Nom noms!

Hello, and welcome...

Hello, and welcome to your new blog! (I say to myself.)


Firstly, I'd like to introduce myself and the mission of my blog.


New apartment: I'm sure everyone remembers their first apartment, and I will too. I love having my own space to stretch out. It makes all the difference, because when we feel comfortable physically, we feel comfortable mentally.


New goals: I recently decided on writing as my major. This was the product of much obsessive worrying, and yet I'm still not entirely sure of it. I do know that I've enjoyed writing since I was little, and it has always been one of my strengths. As such, I'm looking for opportunities to write all I can. This blog hopefully will be some good practice and perhaps a vehicle for some feedback.


New direction: In addition to tangible editions to my life, I am looking for an overall new outlook. As a college sophomore, I feel one of the biggest challenges is to stay motivated even when sometimes I don't know what the heck I'm doing in life. I will use this blog to document my exploits, explore hobbies, research interesting topics, and in general convey my questions/comments to which there's no 1-800 number I can call.


Hey, look, a squirrel!