last three days been eating cottage cheese, honey and fruit salad pretty much, though had some chicken wings today… like 5.. but still.. been keep the calories off… hopefully if I can get down to 220 my blood pressure may fall back into check and I may not feel short of breath all the freaking time.

The simple fact is that we do need some kind of universal healthcare, but we should also be looking at ways to marginalize the need for using health care. For instance, this country is freaking obese. Hell, I am obese. We need to stop making ginormous portions for dinner, we need to stop making the extra large drink at McDonalds cost less than the large drink.

I went to Claim Jumper yesterday for lunch, they had a small and a large version of certain things on the menu. I ordered a small chicken thing. The plate they brought out was the size of a small cargo jet. I have noticed this across the board at many places as well. There is no reason that we should be getting portions of this size. It is almost like we are forcing ourselves to get fatter.

I went to a buffet in Jacksonville once, Golden Corral, we would got here after church, and without a doubt, every weekend that we were there, you would have the requisite “buffet guy” there. He would be wearing sweat pants that could have made twenty sweatshirts for average sized people. He would literally be sitting on two seats, eating 9000 calories a plate.

Have we as a society really decided that being able to order, or being able to eat this much is a good thing? Universal Healthcare is a good thing, but if we as Americans do not do something about our weight, we will be dragging down the healthcare system with our propensity to consume too much. Heart Disease, Diabetes, strokes, the list goes on and on and on with the crap we are doing to ourselves.

The insurance companies are not helping much either, they want us to eat ourselves to death, they want us to get this stuff so that they can make money off of us.

As you know, I have given up doing smokeless tobacco, I have also given up caffeine laced drinks, the next step I think will be to actually go to the gym. It is difficult to take that first step. It is also difficult to maintain doing it. But hell, if i can do it, anyone can do it. I have the resolve of a 2 year old, I want what I want and want it right then and there.

The little girl has a pig headed stubborn attitude like she can and do anything that she wants, which I attribute to her mother, the mother attributes this to me. All in all the little girl genetically is predisposed to certain things, but I think a lot of her make up is also what she sees around her. So we, as her parents, need to keep certain things in check.

The little girl is in time out for at least the next 45 minutes, she has already been there for about 15. She has had a chip on her shoulder since waking up. I cooked her breakfast and she has been whiny ever since. We were supposed to go to Home Depot get some lights and some other little errands, but due to the fact she wants to act like a poo poo head I am going to sit back and wait her out. Today is -0- Tolerance Sunday.

Her parent teacher conference went really well, she is in the top 2% of her grade academically. Not only is she smart, but all of the kids know that she is smart, and she knows she is smart. The teacher basically outlined it, academically she is not an issue, socially she has a few kinks, the term “Drama Queen” is the one that stands out. Seeing how she is and linking the term “Drama Queen” to that is very easy to do. She is spoiled beyond belief with us.

It is not that she is a problem, she is actually a really well adjusted little girl and smart as hell, but I am hoping to dear god that we can “fix” this attitude of hers, even slightly before it grows into something that becomes unmanageable in her teenage years which we can already tell will be difficult.