My Chunky Blog

I started this blog with “I am going to post every day!” running through my head. But yesterday was tummy hell. I woke up to Tuesday nights dinner kicking my butt all the way to the bathroom. I had to convince myself not to hurl and spent most of the day eating bland food for fear of re-tasting it an hour later. I wasn’t a happy camper. During one of my visit to the porcelain gods, I had an idea of what to post here though. So the day wasn’t completely lost. And I caught up on sleep so I felt better this morning.

Are you eating enough fiber? Yes, that was my idea for a topic. You didn’t think I was going to brag about the benefits of puking up everything you ate for the last 3 days, did you?

So, back to fiber. Are you eating enough? You should! Fiber is good for you in many ways but the best is that it keeps your poopy pipeline moving nicely. Anyone who has ever been constipated knows how miserable it can make you. They probably also learned the benefits of fiber very quickly. I know I did. So how do you get more fiber?

Eat a salad! They are good for you. I don’t want to hear any complaining! Eat salad.

Eat more whole grains like, brown rice and whole wheat bread.

I can’t tell you the wonders of Raisin Bran cereal. When I was a naughty teen and snuck out at night to goof off with friends, we usually ran to the nearby parks… like a bunch of idiots. After all, if you sneak out of your house at night, going to a well lit park where every cop driving by can see you, is pretty stupid. Well, this one friend of mine, we’ll call him Adam, brought some raisin bran cereal with him to much down on a bowl while we… uh, swung. Yea. That’s it. We were swinging.

Anyway, he munched down on his hearty cereal of bran flakes and raisins. If we were smarter, we would have known that aside from hanging out in the middle of the night in well lit areas, bringing a heaping bowl of fiber with you and consuming it would be the next stupidest step. Within 20 minutes Adam jumped up with a look of abject terror and sprinted off through the trees toward home.

We finally caught up to him back at the house, along with his wide awake parents standing on the porch waiting for us. I guess when nature calls, scaling a wall, balancing across some roof beams and climbing back into a window just won’t do. He used his key and woke everyone in the house.

The moral of the story? For optimal health, be like Adam. Except for the sneaking out of the house and going to a well lit park in the middle of the night. I mean, eat your fiber.