Frisco Melt

Steak N Shake's frisco melt is hands down the best post bar food on the planet. The description from their website is the following: Two Steakburgers with American and Swiss cheeses, on buttery grilled sourdough with our sweet 'n tangy Frisco sauce. Additional cost for bacon, WAIT A SECOND. I could have been getting bacon?!

Anyways, the frisco melt is AMAZING, this is not up for debate.

This morning when I woke up, I decided I would find out exactly how bad it really was for you. I mean, I was probably making it much worse in my head, trying to calculate the weight watchers points right? I tend to be an overestimator. I go to the Steak N Shake website. It says they currently working to improve and review their nutrtional information. So I venture over to calorieking.com and type in Steak N Shake. I find the frisco melt. Are you sitting down? 980 calories and 72 grams of fat. Oh yeah, and 0 fiber. Yes, the calories is mind blowing but the fat grams. Are you shitting me? Really? Did they inject it with extra fat somehow? It doesn't even seem big enough to hold that many fat grams (the picture above is misleading, it doesn't look that big when you actually get it). For those of you who count points, that is 26 points. More than my entire allotment of points for an entire day. Yowza Steak N Shake, yowza.

Exercise Is Bad for Your Health

Well, your mental health anyways. I joined Cardinal Fitness yesterday. I came to the realization that I shouldn't be sore the next day after running to 2 bases during rec league softball.

When I work out, it's just me, my iPod, and my thoughts. If it's a good song on the iPod, for instance, the Black Eyed Peas "Boom Boom Pow", while using the elliptical, I imagine myself in a boxing gym in a montage of sorts. You know, doing some punches, kicks, something that resembles a karate chop with dimmed lights. It's intense. Then there are times where I just bounce from thought to thought. I talked to my step sister Laura yesterday for close to 40 minutes. She asked how long Marc and I had been together. I told her it had been a year in April. Her response, "WOW, that's a long time for you." She's right. That is a long time for me. Then I started thinking about boys I had lived with in the past and came to the realization that 3 of the 4 are engaged or married, 1 I lost track of, but last I heard, had a baby on the way. And then there was another realization. In all these cases, the girls they are married to/are marrying is the girl they dated right after me. I never saw Good Luck Chuck, but I'm pretty sure I'm the live version. Has anyone see this? After all is said and done is Chuck ok?

So yeah, working out is bad for your health. Apparently I need to get more critically acclaimed music like the Black Eyed Peas so my mind stays in the boxing montage.

Some Things Never Change

Even though I canceled my Weight Watchers subscription back in May, I am still getting their weekly e-mail that reminds me "I don't have to do it alone" or "Get back on the bandwagon NOW". Well, today I was ready to give into the harassment and sign back up for Weight Watchers online. In all the e-mails it said they would waive my registration fee. Good enough for me. So I click the link and in the payment section it does not waive my fee. Hmm. So I contact customer service and explain the problem. They respond that if the offer does not show up I must not be within 6 months of my original cancellation. I next visit Chase's website. Sure enough, weight watchers had debited $16.95 from my account in May...that's within 6 months right? Perhaps I have ignored the more important phrase, original cancellation. If you want to get technical weight watchers online, I originally canceled you back in 2004. I signed up for the first time in June of 2003. That is a lot of weight watching.

Within this time my life has gone so many different directions. I have graduated college, bought my first business suit, moved to Chicago, moved to Lincoln, and moved back to Bloomington. I have lived with 4 boyfriends and had lots of failed relationships including romantic, friendships, and work-related. I have walked out a job and worked for a man who is now running from the feds and another who would be had he not died. I have gone from 4 nieces and newphews to 10 and have had 3 siblings get married. My life is like Illinois weather, if you don't like it, wait 5 minutes, it will change.

The only thing that seems to have remained constant during this time of never ending change is my worry of weight, or weight watching. While I may have cancelled the service an immeasurable amount of times I never officially quit weight "watching". I wonder if there will ever be a morning I wake up and don't think I should weigh myself, which by the way, a daily weigh-in works 1 of 2 ways. If you like the result it reinforces the good things you've done and encourages you to keep doing them, and if you don't like the number, it reminds you that you can't eat McDonald's for 2 out of 3 of your daily meals and expect not develop that second chin.

I guess there really isn't a point to this blog. I just realized I hadn't blogged for awhile. I also realized that maybe I should expand the horizons of this space to more than just food and weight issues. I can certainly be fired up about more issues than food and weight, although those just seem to be the contants. Maybe I should change the url to www.sarahstopthinking.blogspot.com.