SuperSize This

I just got done watching the documentary "Super Size Me." You've probably heard a little something about it, but if you haven't, I'll give you a little information: This guy, Morgan Spurlock, eats nothing but three square meals a day at McDonald's for a month. During this time, he has to try everything on the menu at least once. He cannot consume anything that does not come from McDonald's, including water. It was a pretty darned interesting movie, as far as documentary's go.

In the end, he ended up gaining about 25 pounds, had serious liver problems, raised his cholestorol like 65 points, and suffered a loss of libido. All this is a month. Scares the bejesus out of me. I eat fast food way more often than I probably should, I now realize. I say this as I'm sucking down a giant mixture of Minute Maid Lemonade and Sprite, after having polished off an entire pizza. I eat like a crazed fool these days.

I started the Atkin's diet a little over a year ago, when I realized I was tipping the scales at 180. I've weighed 180 before in the past, but it was mostly muscle. Now that I don't work out 5 times a week(or a year, to be totally honest), I was faced with the fact that I was fat. So I took the easy way out and joined the low-carb bandwagon. I'll tell you something, hype or no hype, it works. I lost 20 pounds within the first 3 months. My goal weight was 160, and Atkin's worked so well I couldn't stop losing weight until I hit 150. I stopped it completely a couple months ago. My metabolism is still kicking so hard I can't gain an ounce to save my life. Yesterday, for the first time in my life, someone called me "little." I couldn't believe it. I know she didn't mean it as an insult, but it kind of hurt my feelings. I don't think theres any way I could eat more than I am nowadays, so it kind of sucks. I want to have the body I had when I was 18, but I just don't feel like I have it in me.

Either way, I'm hitting the gym tomorrow for some serious weightlifting, then it's protein smoothie time. I never want to hear the word "little" used in reference to me again.