Rant about weight, fat acceptance, obesity and health

[SteelCurtain]

I honestly don't know a lot about this. The meat I buy isn't usually prepackaged. And the guy just writes the name and weight and date on it with a marker after he wraps it the plastic over it. Am I naively fooling myself into believing that the family owned butcher shop I like to frequent is healthier? I honestly don't know.

The only thing to do is ask. Who is his supplier? Is the meat ranched locally? Does he buy from Sysco or US Foods? (If so it's probably shit). But I'd be willing to bet that the local butcher gives you quality meat. You are in the Mid-West, after all.

The only pop they've had was Sprite (and that's just the older two as Miss P wasn't born yet) and I glared at my mother the entire time they were drinking it. My kids drink a lot of water and I have a juicer and a blender so they get watered down fruit juice and smoothies sometimes. I'm not crazy honestly. I blame the pediatrician office. They have posters of babies with rotted out teeth. It's traumatizing.

I love soda because it was available to me as a kid. There were no rules--my dad loves Cokes, so there was always a 2L on the counter for us to drink from. I ride my bike to the 7/11 and get a 1L of Surge and get white-kid wasted (Milk Chocolate style, of course) any time I had the $1.28 it cost to do so. I am confident that if my parents taught me healthy habits with that kid-crack, I wouldn't be so in love with it today. So kudos to you, Losty-chan.