funny odor

Do you smell the funny odor? I've been thinking. Always dangerous. Rarely productive.

But the only way to get it unstuck from my brain is to put it out in the universe. I'll do it via this blog. Then when someone else comes up with the idea I can say I had it first.

Tuesday and Thursday I leave for work at 11 am. Generally I walk first thing in the morning, eat a huge breakfast that will take me thru lunch, do my online class, and leave. It works well. However, today is fat, or Shrove Tuesday. So for breakfast I had Fastnachts. A doughnut in the Pennsylvania German tradition.


I'm driving to work and I'm hungry. I decided to stop at Wendy's for an Apple Pecan Chicken Salad. (Full Size in the pix I borrowed from someone else's blog.) They are yummy—cranberries, pecans, chicken, gorgonzola cheese, no dressing.  I got the half size and pared it with a baked potato. 600 calories, 170 from fat and 80 mg of protein. Not a horrible lunch from fast food. And well within an 1800 calorie day.


Any way, sitting at Wendy's looking a the menu I thought about the movie Super Size Me. The one where the foolish man ate at McD's every day. Yuck. I could never eat at the same place three times a day.  He had the super-sized menu options and gained lots of weight and was unhealthy at the end. Looking at the menu at Wendy's I thought there was some decent choices.


Then driving away somehow I started thinking about obesity in America. Logical leap, right? People like Mr. Super Size Me that eat out every meal and get fat and wonder why. Then sue the restaurants. (Don't even get me started on that one.)


That's when the idea hit. I should eat out three meals a day for thirty days at a variety of places—local and chains, fast food and family—and see if I gain weight. Heck, I think might even lose weight. I make much better choices when I'm out. For example if I eat a greasy Five Guys burger for one meal, I have something light for the next meal. It's all about balance.

I'd have to be weighed and tests done first, and then after it's over.


Now of course I couldn't afford to do that. My food budget would soar. I'd need sponsorship. I'd also need money for more trash hauling. The environmental impact of eating out everyday will be huge. Some could be recycled. But not much.

Sodium would also be a big concern because "eating-out" food is loaded with it.


It would be extremely difficult to physically eat out 3 meals a day for a whole month. By the end of a weeks vacation I want home-cooked food. But I'm willing to make the sacrifice.


I'd also have to blog and photograph the process and a nutritionist would need to number crunch. I don't do numbers.


So that's the big idea. When some fancy researcher publishes their results, remember you saw it here first.