drugs

Basic overview: I have taken drugs. All kinds of drugs. But before you think I'm a junkie with a needle hanging out of my veiny arm, let me rephrase. Diet drugs used to be my drug of choice in poor attempts to lost five stupid pounds. Really, why do we worry about five damn pounds when we have so many other things on our plates?
Because, like marijuana, five pounds are a gateway into something more dark and dangerous: obesity. And I worried that my weight gain would segue into more and more pounds. And I tried ephedra when it was legal. I thought I wanted to lose 10 pounds, but ended up losting 30 and ended up looking like a cracked-out skeleton with dark hair.
I was never a runner, but on ephedra I could run for miles on a treadmill just to get 'the shakes' out of my system. Apparently people dropped dead while taking ephedra, and in retrospect I can see why. I almost killed myself, and that is an admission I find to be both painful and illuminating. So now with a slightly smarter approach, I proceed with caution and will try the two most boring ways to lose weight: diet and exercise.

V8Nutrition, Spork culture

I am a college student. I am busy, and it seems like I live my life on campus because between class, research and the IPFW newspaper, there is no reason to leave campus. Exceptof course, to shower. But I don't leave to eat generally, because of the convenience of the fast food places.
But the food here is crap.
Which is fine because I eat like crap.
And in a world of complex carbs, transfats and The Biggest Loser, it's safe to say that we live in a fat nation, and I'm in the thick of it. Since I moved from the uber-healthy, extremely green city of Austin, Texas back to the biscuits & gravy and butta, butta and mo' butta culture of Fort Wayne, I have packed on a few pounds. And I plan on leaving them here by the time I graduate in May, so I will be exploring not only why we eat like we do, but also ways to undo the damage we have done to ourselves in the name of convenience. Diet pills? Likely not. Alternative fixes? Sure, why not? Let's explore together!