Pour some sugar on me

Sometimes you know you’re going to suffer for it, but you do the thing anyways.

This past Sunday I drove my housemates to the airport for their long-delayed honeymoon to Thailand. It was around 9:00 PM when we set off from the house. First stop was the local In-N-Out burger for what was their dinner. I already had my supper, so rather than just sit there and look at them eat (I’m not a fan of the mukbang video genre), I ordered a milkshake. In the only flavor acceptable: Neapolitan.

This decision would prove detrimental as the rush of sugar and fat absolutely wired me up. There was no way I was going to sleep at my usual time of 10:30 PM. It’s just not going to happen. So I did the only thing possible: stay up until the sugar rush passes and I feel tired enough to go to bed. Plenty of chores were done before I finally hit the sack at 1:00 AM the next day.

Yesterday was a unusually warm day in San Francisco. A friend asked to go get ice cream after dinner. This meant, once again, ingesting something sugary and fat late into the evening. Knowing full well my normal sleeping schedule will be ruined, I went ahead and got that rocky road scoop on a waffle cone regardless. Totally worth it! Being social and hanging out with friends is decidedly more important than slumber.

Up to a certain point, obviously. You won’t see me going on a bar-hopping binge well pass midnight. Not that my friends and I are the sort of people to do that. Not in our currently advanced, mid thirties age anyways.

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House special bento.

The war on sodium

Sugar is not the problem anymore. You know what is prevalent problem these days in the American diet? Sodium. For the non educated type, that means the common salt. Who convinced the mainstream eateries out there that ungodly amount of sodium is the proper way to cook food? Everything is just so salty these days and is void of their natural flavors.

But that is not the major sticking point. All the intake of sodium just makes a person wants to drink water ceaselessly. Recently I had breakfast at an ihop ordering the usual breakfast food. For the rest of the day I could not stop drinking water for I was just constantly thirsty. And it is not like you piss it all out either, because sodium causes the body to RETAIN water thus you will look bloated (not good ladies)

And you wonder why Chinese people tell you that the food at restaurants is largely way different that authentic home cooked Chinese food. Not because the ingredients are different, but its the way they season the food (or lack of). All they do at Chinese restaurants is fry the food (yes even veggies get a oil bath, notice how shiny they are) and add MSG (see, a sodium that taste even better!).

This has to stop. I don't want to not enjoy the great human societal joy of eating out just because more and more there are just not anything kosher to eat.

For sure I'm not saying go gorge on some ice cream (I wish), because eating tons of sugary products (or it is not even sugar, it is more often than not corn) will still make you obese and have large risk of diabetes.