Shut the front door

Shut the front door- besides being one of my favorite little "catch phrases" right now it is so appropriate for so much I want to talk about tonight.

First, the country's weight obsession/weight problem. I understand we are, by far, the freakin' fattest country in the world. We are a HUGE, gluttonous society, hell bent on overindulgence and instant gratification. I also understand we are a society of extremes...you are either overweight or weight obsessed- there are so few "in betweeners." I can honestly say that I am in the weight obsessed category. Whether I am overweight, fighting baby weight or feeling pretty good about what the scale says, I am body obsessed. I have tried it all from fads to starvations diets to crazy pills to being a gym whore to everything in between. I am one of "those" people who is never quite happy enough with where I'm at or how I look. However, I can attest that just diet and exercise work and the actual work needs to come within me. The point of that entire rambling though was to get to the whole "shut the front door" thing. How about the diet/ weight obesession feeding into things it shouldn't? How about the "Taco Bell Diet"!?!?! I kid you not! You tube it or something...the Taco Bell Diet, really?!? I wanted to die from laughter. Aren't there some places destined to always be bad and bad for you? Some places the dieting world should never touch and never be a part of? It's almost sacriledge to see the Grade D Meat Factory producing "health food!"

Then my other "shut the front door" topic...the 1/2 marathon in two days! Like I said, I am woefully unprepared but now I am unprepared with 75,000 other people. As I was panting my way down the street to get from one place to the next this morning, I passed by many a jogger and I thought to myself (with half jealousy/ half pity) "look at you go." I wish (or am so glad I'm not) out there with ya buddy. This coming Saturday is going to be interesting, to say the least. I hope I don't embarrass myself!