I'm a big boy and I like to eat. You might say I'm big boned or even obese. I'm no athlete but I sure like to walk and once I get my bike working again I like to bike. Sometimes I blame myself for eating too much at the dinner table, though I have to wonder if I'm at fault or the affluent society that makes food cheap and so plentyful.

Food is always or almost always avaliable wherever I go. I don't particularly spend a lot of money on food, preferring to eat a home. Yet when I eat at home, it's just so easy to stuff my face with pasta or whatever other good home cooking my mother makes. It's delious. Maybe it's my fault for eating so much and not stopping until my stomach starts to ache with all the food I've had or maybe it's the fault of society.

I just hate to waste food. Despite my efforts to conserve it seems like I always produce sickening amounts of garbage that ultimately has polluted the environment in it's production and forever will do so in the garbage dump. I realize that the stuff I'm eating is largely posion, just like the food wrapper it comes in that puts out such a sickening black smoke went burnt. Processed food is purty disgusting, yet it seems to be every where.

I also blame our seditary culture. I don't like being stuck at a desk all day tossing papers around and doing work at a computer. I try to get out when I'm home whenever possible, yet so much of my time is made up by work. Work is alienating and it just makes us fat. I don't know how to change this part of my life, though I always walk during lunch and try to take the stairs whenever possible.

Politics is the worst of both worlds. Politics is often about food and socializing. Politics takes too much time in my life, that I could be spending outside mowing the lawn, chopping wood, walking, or doing things that make me a more healthy individual rather then one who is simply building a better world. Maybe I should skip some more of the receptions and the alike, but he food and the networking are good.

Fat is looked down in American culture yet it seems like such an essential part of our identities. I really need to work on self-restraint, yet it seems that there is so many temptations in our world to do bad and pump on a few more pounds. That weight not only effects looks, it also makes it more difficult to do the outdoor activities I so love. I guess there is a balance somewhere.