Last Rants of 2012

Here are a few things I find ridiculous that I need to rant about:

1. Parents that tell their children to "finish their plates" so they can have dessert.  If they FINISH every pea on that plate, they don't have room for dessert!   In essence, we are rewarding our kids for overeating with more food.
2. Skimping on calories all day only to feel deprived and go overboard late at night.  Just eat a real meal and quit starving yourselves!
3. Guzzling Gatorade after a 30 minute cardio workout.  Water will suffice for hydration!  Gatorade was made for the Florida Gator football team in the wicked heat of summer.  Most of us really can't afford the calories.
4. Free refills on large popcorn at movie theaters.  Why?  Isn't that large bucket more than enough for 1 show?  Unless you are feeding a family of 8, please order a small and don't succumb to the large 'deal'.
5. Tossing the egg yolks and eating egg whites with bacon.  Wrong.  Bacon (saturated fat) raises your cholesterol, not egg yolks!
6. Taking the elevator to go up 1 or 2 floors.  Unless you can't walk, take the steps already.
7. Bringing cupcakes to every school function.  A child is perfectly happy with apple slices, carrot sticks or graham crackers for snacks.
8. Providing snacks to a 1 hour soccer game that ends right at lunch time.  No explanation needed here.
9. Claiming healthy food costs too much, but going out to eat 3 or 4 nights a week.
10. Believing a pill or special combinations of food will magically make you lose 30 lbs in 1 month  If this were true, I'd no longer be in business.

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