Starch & Carbohydrates

Hello again and welcome.

It's confession time.

I've been eating snickers again.  Let me clarify.  I have been eating multiple snickers "energy bars" every day for eight days without questioning it.  This would be a great opportunity for me to assure you I have been combating this intake of extra chocolatey, melt in your mouth calories with very manly and responsible amounts of push-ups, chin ups and throwing logs.   No.

Daily my job and activities through-out are intense enough and labourious enough that I regularly consume whichever shiny product is bold enough to claim to be food.  This has led to many incarnations of who I, Jesse, have been in the past.   There was Burger-fat Jesse at 220+ lbs's.  Leading to Muscle-armed pizza-fat  Jesse floating around 200 lb's.  Before that we had The" Garb-a-rator" in high school at 156 lb's.  Then Lumber-buff around 180 lb's and sporting the worst teenage beard as i made the move from Truro to Halifax.  I'm aiming for ripped as hell bicycle hunk.  A mix of me from when i had a free gym membership and i could eat as much cafeteria food as i wanted and this past summers "midnight cyclist, what cycles at midnight".

Exercise for me has always been a great excuse to eat.  If do a set of squats followed by an intense push up gauntlet the i'm having a chocolate peanut butter protein shake and a steak.  Motivation!

I offered to put in some extra days at work as an opportunity for me to fill up my back account appeared and I am now remembering why people commented on how much better i looked when i decided to leave my night shift.  I used to buy poptarts after my 12 km cycle to work and then snack on chocolate covered peanuts all shift.  Let's skip what i ate for lunch it's embarrassing how many times i'd have to type pizza-pop.

This i hope has given you a better understanding into what i'm trying to accomplish with my journey across Canada.  I want to break myself out of this habit.  It's not as simple as eat less snickers.  I also want to loose the habit of eating poorly when i'm over worked.  I plan on being over worked in the coming months.

I'm learning bicycle repair and First Aid.  I'm experimenting with painting and writing again.  I have a guitar and a banjo to learn.  I have many many great days ahead.

The first step is to put down the snickers and pick myself up.

P.S. $1.99 for a chocolate bar is as clear a sign of the end times as we're gonna get.