The Cheese Grates It: The Bullshit of Calories In Calories Out and Thin Equals Healthy

I want to smack everyone who says "you just need to eat less and exercise more" upside the head. I doubt I even eat 2000 calories most days, which is the average calorie intake for adults. 

Most of the time, I don't have the money to be able to eat three meals a day. I'm still fat, and I'm pretty sure I always will be unless I get extremely sick, such as my great grandmother did with acute myelogenous leukemia. I'm rather sure she was diabetic and hypothyroid and probably had PCOS as well, just by looking at her face. 

She was never diagnosed as such, but she tended to crave sweets, which is a sign of insulin resistance. Of course, all my family could ever talk about was how fat she was. Why the fuck is everyone so obsessed with other people's bodies? Also, she lost 105 pounds within the space of a year, and then she died. Guess that's a triumph right there--she had a thin body to put into the casket.

~The Cheese Hath Grated It~

The Cheese Grates It: Silly Cheese, Don't You Know Pomegranates are for Weight Loss, Not Eating Pleasure?

Here's a WTF moment in eating. (Trigger warning for discussion of food and body policing.) I get deliveries from Home Chef, and today for my lunch, I decided to make the blood orange and bulgur salad.
It has lots of good ingredients, like arugula, bulgur, almonds, blood orange, sweet potatoes, shallots, and pomegranate seed.
When I went to open the container of pomegranate seed, I noticed the picture of a pomegranate, which at first looked like it had a Saturn ring around it, or perhaps it was wearing a belt for reasons. But nope, it was a picture of a tape measure. Because fucking pomegranates are not something you eat because you like pomegranates or fruit in general, they are something you eat because they may just help you achieve that coveted, Next To Godliness thinness.
 Fuck. That. Shit.
I'm going to enjoy my salad anyway. I'm going to eat it right out of the god damn bowl, because I'm the only one eating it. Anything left over will be put in a container for later. But you know what? I would have enjoyed it all the more if I could have just prepared it without having the ever present reminder that people with bodies like mine should be eradicated shoved in my face.

~The Cheese Hath Grated It With Much Wrath~