{"id":212,"date":"2008-05-27T15:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-27T22:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/?p=212"},"modified":"2008-05-27T15:43:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-27T22:43:00","slug":"on-eating-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/2008\/05\/27\/on-eating-better\/","title":{"rendered":"On eating better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had the munchies this morning. Real bad.<\/p>\n<p>I went out for a walk and stopped in one of the mom and pop shops to get something to eat. I don&#8217;t know how long I spent in that store, but I think the guy behind the counter was starting to wonder about me. I spent a huge amount of time looking at the cookies. Wow, there&#8217;s a lot of cookies out there, even in the Mom and Pops. I looked over the nuts and the chips and I was about to give up when I spotted the apple chips. You see, I&#8217;m unofficially officially on a diet &#8211; meaning I&#8217;m going to watch what I eat and eat less garbage but I&#8217;m not going to weigh everything I eat or spend all my brain cells counting fat grams and calories.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_zp3Ar3Ay1J4\/SDySBTdOhsI\/AAAAAAAAAJc\/Ibzz0kCxbyg\/s1600-h\/005.JPG\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bp2.blogger.com\/_zp3Ar3Ay1J4\/SDySOjdOhtI\/AAAAAAAAAJk\/0tU15rUnGnE\/s1600-h\/005.JPG\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5205196048067102418\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bp2.blogger.com\/_zp3Ar3Ay1J4\/SDySOjdOhtI\/AAAAAAAAAJk\/0tU15rUnGnE\/s400\/005.JPG?w=1080\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Something about the apple chips caught my attention and said &#8220;yum&#8221; to me. The fact that they came in flavors like cinnamon and caramel certainly didn&#8217;t hurt anything. And it said right on the package, &#8220;A heathier option.&#8221; Well, if one is healthier than two should surely help me rack up some good fruit and veggie karma. I bought both the cinnamon and carmel flavors and took them back to my little den where I sit and curse my computer, my professors, my %^$&amp; lack of abilitiy to concentrate or string one coherent sentance after another, and anything else I can think of to blame for why I can&#8217;t seem to get these papers done.<\/p>\n<p>Back to clacking away at these papers and nibbling away at the apple chips as I type. Four hours later, as I&#8217;m staring around the room giving my eyes a break from the monitor (I&#8217;ve been at this since 6 this morning) I catch a glimps of the nutritional info on the back of the apple chip bag.<\/p>\n<p>Each bag contained 2.5 single ounce servings. Each serving had 140 calories and 7 grams of fat. So after happily munching away on two bags of apple chips and blissfully thinking I was gonna get some kind of kudos for actually eating an apple, I actually consumed 700 calories and 35 grams of fat. So much for not counting calories or fat grams. At 540 calories and 29 grams of fat, I could have gone ahead and had a Big Mac. Gah! I&#8217;m so depressed I might need some chocolate.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">\u00a9 Copyright Judy Haley 2008. All rights reserved.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had the munchies this morning. Real bad. I went out for a walk and stopped in one of the mom and pop shops to get something to eat. I don&#8217;t know how long I spent in that store, but I think the guy behind the counter was starting to wonder about me. 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