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10 Foods That Make You Fat

Most people are looking for ways to lose weight, and a lot of it. Really we just want the body fat to come off. We want to be trim and toned. We want to look good for the summer. I understand that. I get the fact that people don’t look at you because you’re a fat tub of lard. (Okay I’m not talking to YOU specifically, whoever is reading this, I’m just saying because I’m a fat tub of lard women won’t take a second look at me.) However here at ‘Monday’ we would rather be fat and happy then beautiful and frustrated.

Think about it for a second. You think because you are fat and ugly you would be unhappy. That when you are thin and beautiful/handsome you would be happy because then you would be attractive to the opposite sex. My stance is that you would be more miserable. Firstly you have to keep exercising. This is a total pain in the butt, and the abs, and the biceps, in the triceps, the quads, the deltoids, the traps, etc. Secondly you have to keep watching what you eat and you have to make sure you eat healthy non-fattening foods. This means counting calories, or portion sizes, or fat grams or some such.

Not to mention that then you have to be sociable. You have to work at attaining correspondence with the opposite sex. You have to stay that way. You must keep your appearance up, and so forth. You might have to learn manners. You may have to have money and a vehicle. There are just so many factors to dating, that it’s probably just less stressful to be fat, alone, and happy. To that end I want to present ten foods that will make you fat. Some of these will be healthy, some of these won’t be so healthy, but all of them will make you fat. Remember to gain a pound you have to eat 3500 more calories than you burn. To gain one pound a week that’s 500 more calories than you normally eat. That’s only 1 King Size Snickers a day!

So here are ten foods that will help you get fat:

1. Butter – Butter is essentially fat from milk that has been churned. 1 tablespoon (about an eighth of a stick) contains about 100 calories. That means the more you put on your toast or potatoes the fatter you’ll get.

2. Doughnuts – Doughnuts are essentially rings of dough that has been deep fried. They’re usually topped with a glaze, or cinnamon, or chocolate, or powdered sugar, or millions of things. Sometimes they can be filled with jelly and other things, in which case they’re not really a rings but disc shaped. An average glazed doughnut carries about 200 calories, although depending on what it’s topped with or filled with can be even more than that.

3. Nuts – Are you nuts about nuts? Almonds, cashews, macadamias, hazel nuts (otherwise known as filberts), and what have you contain tons of calories. They’re also very good for you, like they might reduce the risks of some kinds of heart disease and so forth. They also carry the good fats. They tend to clock in at about 150 calories per serving and up!

4. Beef – Like steaks and stuff. While beef is pretty high in protein which is essential for muscle building and fat burning, it also is pretty weighty with calories. The calorie content might make you fat, about 60 calories and up per ounce. (A good 10 oz steak could be 600-800 calories). However, as I just said, protein helps burn fat and builds muscle. But if you don’t do any strength training and you eat way more steak than you burn off in a day, you can still get fat from it!

5. Bread – Oh boy! French bread, which is my favorite. In fact a loaf of my favorite French bread clocks in at about 1300 calories. (If you’re in the US Albertson’s French bread is my weapon of choice). While most whole grain breads are healthier for you, they can also be a source of calories. Usually most store-bought bread clocks in about 100 (give or take 20) per slice. It varies a lot, get the nice wheat bread with hazelnuts in it and that’s pretty hefty.

6. Candy / Chocolate Bars – Admit it, you all like a good snickers, or a Twix. Usually most regular sized candy-bars clock in at around 250 or more calories. A Snickers bar is really good for this, as it also contains peanuts. Peanuts can be pretty hefty in calories too. This leads me to Peanut Butter.

7. Peanut Butter – I have a confession to make here. I don’t like Peanut Butter, and I will never eat it. Those people that swear by PB are eating a lot of calories. Where peanuts are good for you they’re also very fattening and by extension so is PB. Make it into a PB & J sandwich and you’ve got enough calories to rival a hamburger. You’re looking at 100 calories per tablespoon, or more depending on what brand you buy.

8. Potato and Corn Chips (Crisps for you Europeans) – The delicious chip or crisp. About 140+ calories per serving which is usually about an ounce. Considering that a good bag of potato chips contains about 10-12 ounces, you’re looking at 1400 calories for that bag of Doritos.

9. Milk – It does a body good. 150 calories per 8 fluid ounces (or a cup) good. So every time you drink that 16 ounce glass worth of milk, you’re drinking 300 calories. Two glasses? 600 calories. This will get you nice and fat. Of course it also has a ton of protein which combined with strength training can help you build muscle, which zaps fat. But here we’re just concerned with drinking it for fun.

10. Pie – How about an apple pie? Marie Callenders apple pie contains about 3000+ calories per pie, or about 300-400 calories per slice. It’s mostly dough, and sugar, and sugar, and more sugar. So that can definitely make you fat, but it’s oh so good.

So there you have it ten foods that make you fat. Notice these aren’t necessarily the “top ten” because this is a matter of opinion. In fact there are tons more food that makes you fat. In fact anything can make you fat even low calorie and diet foods if you eat enough servings. I think the only foods that won’t make you fat by eating a lot are certain vegetables like celery.

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10 Ways We Use Technology to Exert As Little Effort as Possible

Technology is great. You can pretty much do almost everything from within your own home, and in many cases don’t need to get up off the couch to do them. So in this article I’m going to explain some of the ways in which we use technology to exert as little effort as possible.

A long time ago they had to work for a living, and I mean work with a capital “W”. Everything was made by hand, clothes, food, furniture, you name it. Then the industrial revolution came along and changed all that. We now had machines that did a lot of work. Still we had to do manual labor. Then came the 70′s when the personal computer was born. At first wasn’t much more than glorified calculator. Now it can do a lot more. It can compose music, do art, and works of literature, balance your budget, etc. Now with the internet where you can do everything virtually; you almost don’t even need to leave your home.

Here are some ways we use technology to exert as little effort as possible. Keep in mind this isn’t a list of modern conveniences like indoor plumbing and heating. Maybe I can write a future article on ways technology has made us lazy?

  1. Key-less entry – we now no longer have to unlock our doors by turning a key, we can either use a keypad or we can press a button to unlock doors, and even start cars in some cases. Of course this assumes we’re still going to use a car. Now we can call or make reservations online for a bus, shuttle, or taxi to come pick us up.
  2. Fast Food – The drive-thru window is relatively new. Before the 70′s you had to go into a restaurant to buy food, now you can just drive up to a window and get your food on the go.
  3. Alarms or Timers – What about alarms that get us out of bed instead of having a rooster wake us up at the crack of dawn?
  4. Automatic Coffee Maker – Is not just a synonym for wife now, we have machines that once set will wake you up in the morning with that smell of fresh coffee.
  5. Automatic Dish Washer – See above. Now you don’t need to wash the dishes in dirty water and dry them with the same towel you wiped your face on, instead you just put them and some soap in a machine and it gets them cleaner than your wife ever could.
  6. Robot Vacuums – The next best thing to Robot Butlers. Just set it and forget it.
  7. Internet – The internet is a great way to order things and you don’t even need to leave your house. You can even get postal services to come and pick up stuff so all you have to do is take it to the front door. You can order food, furniture, clothes, everything.
  8. Video Games – Why play board games where you physically throw dice, why not have computers do the mental work, you just have to sit there pressing buttons.
  9. Video Rental – You now don’t need to go to a counter to rent movies, you can go to a kiosk press a few buttons and out pops your movie or game. In some cases you can just subscribe to a service that sends them out without late fees and allows you to keep them as long as you like.
  10. Robots that build cars – To make this a top ten list I had to add one more, and I decided to add robotic car manufacture. Back when Ford introduced his car for the masses, the assembly line was state of the art. Now cars can be built in a quarter the time as they used to by hand.

So there you have it, ten ways in which we use technology to exert as little effort as possible. Do you have anymore to add to this list? If so be sure to make a comment about it. Please keep in mind these should be technology items that enable us to work less or not-at-all.

Until ‘Monday’

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20 ways to be a perfectionist.

We grow up with the phrase “Nobody’s perfect.” We also get told to do our ‘best’ and that’s all we can do. There’s no shame in trying, and success is a bunch of failures strung together, so we learn what not to do. What If I told you we *could* be perfect. What if I said your best isn’t good enough, that there is shame in trying and failing, and that success isn’t learning based on a bunch of failures. With the following tips I will show you how to be a perfectionist. Never settle for second best.

  1. Be highly critical of your own mistakes. You’re not perfect until you’re perfect. Keep trying if you don’t meet certain expectations.
  2. Never get any projects done because it’s ‘never good enough’. Trust me it isn’t even NEAR good enough.
  3. Obsess over minor details, the smaller the better.
  4. Fear failure; you can’t fail; you will not fail; not even once.
  5. Never think in shades of gray, it’s either perfect or it isn’t.
  6. Beat yourself up because you’re just not perfect like you should be.
  7. Take yourself very seriously.
  8. Don’t give yourself an inch.
  9. Constantly moan and complain to others about your mistakes.
  10. Remember everything you do is wrong.
  11. Start to revise or re-factor from the start, don’t wait until things are done, you are a perfectionist after all.
  12. You need to redo that project just one more time.
  13. Anything that is less than perfect is unacceptable; just get that in your mind right now!
  14. Having high standards is great, having impossible standards is even better.
  15. Just remember you are NEVER happy with what you have produced, and you never will.
  16. Don’t focus on the end result or the big picture, only focus on the details.
  17. Aim to be the best in everything you do, even if you don’t do it very well or don’t like it.
  18. Spend your time on the 80% that doesn’t matter rather than the 20 that does.
  19. Feature creep is the perfectionist’s friend. Feature creep is the phenomenon where you have more things you want to put in that keeps creeping up on you until you’re covered with it. It’s never going to be perfect unless it has tons and tons of features.
  20. It’s all or nothing.

Until ‘Monday’