I’ve started running again in the last few weeks, and I am amazed at two things. One: How fast your fitness level goes down after a few months of inactivity. Two: How one’s basic fitness level doesn’t go down after a few months of inactivity.
The breeze pushed against the leaves, trees, blowing small eddies of leaping dirt across the path. She walked on it, the path, the red path bordered by small red strips of wood. Each step was a tired struggle as she pushed uphill.
Then she was over the top, and the vista of San Francisco and the bridge opened in front of her. A sense of vertigo touched her briefly as the yawning expanse of the Bay area pressed on her. The dizziness passed quickly, to be replaced by the familiar feeling of loss.
She continued down the path, which ended at a iron fence at the edge of the bluff. Her dark clothes flapping around her, she rested two small hands on the warm metal of the fence. She put her foot on the bottom railing. Her right arm dangled at her side, now, and her brown hair shone in the orange sunlight.
Below her, the wind coaxed white foam out of the sea water, breaking, only to be pushed anew.
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“I can’t believe it, I’m carrying the weight of two of my child in fat, right now,” my friend said. Indeed, when one puts it that way, measuring that quantity of fat, pointing out that well, here’s 30 pounds of fat and here is your child, also 30 pounds. There’s something visceral about that.
When you are driving in the urban wilderness, what is there to hunt? The most common game is McDonalds, lurking around every corner. Occasionally you’ll stumble upon a doe-eyed Chipotle, or a furry In-n-Out, delectable game in their own right. But these meals are hardly healthy, and it’s almost impossible for our over-specialized traveling busy city on-the-go jet set selves to get a simple healthful meal quickly.
Not that healthy couldn’t be fast. Not at all.
Here’s something I would like to see:
Bob on the Go
A Healthy Fast Food Dining Establishment
(Franchises Available)
M E N U
I don’t know. None of the above items is fried but they are extremely simple to prepare. I know tastes vary and mine do fall to the spicy side of the spectrum. When you read the above, fast food doesn’t even enter the mind at all — and that’s true for a big reason: fast food is fast precisely because it’s fried (with the exception of fast-mex like Chipotle or Baja Fresh).
Far from me to add my moan to the moans of many who … bemoan the fast food world we are in, I declare as of today I refuse to eat any kind of fast food for minimum one year. This excludes sit-down restaurants that are social events. (P.S. this includes Chipotle, which my friends know is a toughie for me.)
Come — join me in my fast food fast.
