I'm a librarian, so I'm fat. I know all librarians aren't fat. Or at least I'll say that to keep the peace. All the other librarians are fat. Not you.
But I'm fat. It actually uses the word, sedentary on my job description. So I sit on my huge ass for most of the day. Okay, to be honest, I'm about 30 pounds overweight. But I'm 4' 10" so it really shows. Or if I wanted to be really honest, I'm 45 pounds away from my all time sexy weight when I was in library school, went to the gym three times a week, ran a mile each visit, benched 200 pounds on the weight machine, and rode my bike everywhere. Being too broke to buy gas does a lot to get me in shape. Maybe that's why gas prices are so high; maybe some oil executive saw me in my Daisy Dukes and wants my sweet cheeks back on a bike.
So anyway, I go to Yahoo and there's that old link on their page again about the 20 foods you should never eat. It seems to be in rotation. But I think it's a new list, so I click. But no, it has the same items, especially the Worst Mexican Entree: Chipotle Mexican Grilled Chicken Burrito. Damn. I love Mexican food. And I like Chipotle; the portions are gigantic for the prices. So it freaks me out that they've been targeted as having one of the worst fast food menu items. And the listed nutritional information is insane: 1,179 calories, 47 g fat, 125 g carbs, 2,656 mg sodium . "Holy crap!" yells my heart. "That can't be right," says my giant sexy ass.
And since I don't know where they got their information from (it doesn't seem to be easy to locate on the Chipotle site-- but if you search for it, you can find a link to the nutritional info), did some research online. And lucky for this fat man, I found Chipotlefan with their Nutrition Calculator where I can choose items until I find the right combination that will make my heart explode from all the sodium. Or not. Yeah, not. So if the calculator is accurate, there are a few things I can still order that won't cause immediate death. Yea!
Yes, this was important enough to blog about, dammit. It's food!
But the way the economy is going here in the U. S., all of our food will just go to countries that can afford to pay more for it. And then I'll lose that weight. It'll be the "Thank you Wall Street for exploiting every possible way to make money by trading on every food staple from rice to potatoes to corn" diet.
