Occasionally I’ll be eating something and then look down and be like, “Why the hell am I eating this? This has loads and loads of calories and zero nutrition. It isn’t even good! I do not need this!” and then I KEEP EATING IT. And I have no idea why. Do you know why I don’t know why? Because there is no scientific reason why.
I like science a lot. I like rationality, precision of speech – I don’t do “emotional” well. So it kind of sucks that my “get healthy” kick has to involve emoting and “feelings”. Bleh.
I know what a calorie is – the amount of energy it takes to raise one kilogram of water one degree Celsius. I know that it takes 7700 calories to burn one kilogram, or 3500 to burn a pound. I know we evolved to prefer fat and salt (hello, Fritos!) and that eating trees is out of the question for us because we can’t digest cellulose.
But I have no idea why I keep getting Cheesy Bread from Dominos.
Oh Amber! The answer to this question has eluded me for years. Your post made me chuckle, though. I wonder how many calories chuckling burns?
Darcie
17 Feb 10 at 12:36 pm
Mmm, cheesy bread. We need to party and have a dance-a-thon, that will burn calories.
MeadowsLing
17 Feb 10 at 7:33 pm
Cheese is the answer to the meaning of life. That’s why you eat the cheesy bread.
Nadia
17 Feb 10 at 8:26 pm
But you do know the answer…. you even wrote it. Fat and salt. Oh, and yummy. Also yummy.
Simone
19 Feb 10 at 10:23 am