You could have one of those frozen meals

You mean 310 calories IN ONE MEAL?!? Nooooooooooooo!!!

Seriously, I want a t-shirt that says "NO, I DON'T WANT TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR DIET!" January is the worst for that shit, because of resolutions and whatnot, and all the "I'm so BAAAAAAAAAAAD because I ate a cookie" talk makes me want to punch people in the neck.

And the obsessive diet talk is triggery as hell for me, but I don't tell the diet-talk people that, because it's none of their business and I don't know them well enough to be willing to explain why. (And I don't trust them enough to believe that they would understand why and accept that it's valid.)

But seriously? Eating NEVER makes a person "bad." Unless you ate a puppy or something.

You know the only hard-and-fast rule of nutrition? IF YOU DON'T EAT, YOU DIE. So. There's that.

I just sent them an email saying that their ad is dangerous and encourages an unhealthy idea of how many calories a proper meal should be and that such commercials encourage disordered eating.

When my sister was at the worst of her eating disorder, she would tell me that her max daily caloric intake was about 800 calories. I explained to her that she would get more calories in an Indonesian prison.

Those ad are marketed right at her. Pisses. Me. Off. Mostly because they don't pose them as an addition to a healthy meal or part of a healthy meal. They position them as a meal substitute.

Fuckers.

I just sent them an email saying that their ad is dangerous and encourages an unhealthy idea of how many calories a proper meal should be and that such commercials encourage disordered eating.

See, you had the proper response. I just ranted and then got a scoop of ice cream with Hershey's syrup.

And it's gooooood.

minor asthma attack. Brief. But while I had a mouthful of red wine

Take the Pew Political Quiz and see how you stack up to the rest of the country!

I got 12 out of 12 easily...I listen to a lot of NPR.

I hate those fucking Campbell's soup ads. Seriously! 60 fucking calories?

So very much this!

I hate those fucking Campbell's soup ads. Seriously! 60 fucking calories?

Lordy, yes. 60 calories of flavored, slightly-chunk chunky water isn't a meal. It's tea. They're marketing vegetable and meat flavored tea and telling people it's a meal.

Edited to remove an all too accurate typo.

We were ranting at that at work yesterday! Seriously, for an average-sized person, 1800 calories daily would be modest. For that soup to be one of three meals, you'd have to eat TEN CANS!

Or one can and two snickers bars, which would be delicious but not good nutrition.

Or one can and two snickers bars, which would be delicious but not good nutrition.

THAT's what I'm talking about.

But I wonder how many other people would be convinced by the phrase "build up herd immunity"?

Yeah, you know, I am too. OK, I'll get on that.

Timelies all!

It's snowing here. We were planning to go to a friend's party tonight, but I guess we'll see how much snow we get, etc., before we decide.