Tuesday, January 15, 2013

So frustrated

I could rant for hours but I won't. I have been told I need to improve the "locker room" of our marriage and it wouldn't do any good anyways, so I will leave it. Suffice to say I am incredibly frustrated and feel at the end of my rope.

Two topics today.... One. I was told how lucky I am today. Apparently, I am able to eat a snack right before bed because I am skinny. SIGH. Where do I begin with this statement? Firstly, I am not lucky. I work my balls off and I eat clean the majority of the time. Secondly, there is absolutely no correlation between being 'skinny' (which is term I hate btw) and not eating after 6pm- no matter what Dr. Oz or Doctors or whoever says. Calories are total intake all day long. The reason WHY I am 'skinny' (it pains me to write that) is because I consume calories steadily throughout the day, work out hard and eat clean calories without going over a certain number.
Why is this so difficult? I am not lucky, or genetically able to eat whatever I want, or any of that.

Which brings me to point number Two. This article annoys me. http://www.leducrep.com/2013/01/02/no-need-to-change-diet-according-to-new-study-dietitian
It's a great example of how findings in studies can be miconstrued according to the reader, publisher and who ever else may gain finacially/ otherwise from it. I think the dietician explained it well when she stated that "insulin production is not really dependent on when you'r eeating as much as what you're eating".
WHAT you're eating, folks. This just in. Of course when you eat certain foods is important in training and great coaches will tell you that and explain it to you. But for the general public, what you are eating is far more important.

Oh random third. Lance Armstrong admitted to taking performance enhancing drugs. I'm about to open a huge can of worms here, but I just don't give a shit. I would like to know which ones, just for my own interest, but otherwise... I don't think he is a devil. I don't think he is evil, or a cheater, or should be stripped of anything. I dare anyone to take any drug out there and try to ride the Tour de France not just win it. One ball or not- drugs give an edge. Yeah it's unfair. It's also unfair that that chick has longer legs than me or rounder muscle bellies or bigger boobs. It enhances the genetically gifted and kicks training a little higher..... but you can't tell me he sat on his ass and watched SOA while his competitors trained. He trained his ball off too.
I get it's not a popular opinion yet it is one shared by those familiar with performance enhancing drugs- which is not the general population. Generally people hear STEROIDS ZOMG!!
You don't have to agree with me, but it's my place to ramble so too bad.
Happy Tuesday. LOL not a very uplifting post but I'm exhausted from a weekend of the stomach flu and still taking care of 2 kids all day and trying to clean and santize an entire house and do 8 loads of laundry and train clients then wake up suddenly at 330 am and not be able to sleep.... UGH.

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