Breakfast burrito, steak burgers, chicken burger, french fries, taco de pescado

Hey everyone what is your favorite food?

Burrito?
French Toast?
Goldfish?

How about, "No thanks, I don't have a favorite food"?

I recently read an article in The New York Times that said if you have a favorite food you will die at least 9 years younger than people who don't care about having a favorite food. This will be because you ate too much of the same thing for your whole life. Your body doesn't like when you do that. Ya gotta mix it up. The key to health and longevity can be found in the old adage "everything in moderation." This is always true. This adage. And things written in the New York Times are almost always true, also. Anyway, this article inspired me to try to do everything in moderation for an entire day. I tried this today. Here is my day.

Woke up. This was the only time I woke up today, so that was fine.

Went to work. This was the only time I went to work today, so again, no problem.

Worked. This is where I really started to lose control. I worked for 10 HOURS! 41.6% of my entire day is being spent at work! Not very moderate! No sir!

Ate lunch while at work. I only ate one lunch which might seem OK but it was a big lunch. I ate a quesadilla (from the kids menu at least but it was still big) and a bowl of chili. I forgot I was supposed to be doing things in moderation so I ate until my food was gone instead of eating until I was full. Oops. Oh and I ate snacks all day ah man I blew this a lot.

Went home after work. Only went home once today.

Went on the computer at home after getting back from work. I shouldn't have done this. I was on the computer all day at work.

Practiced guitar. I did this really moderately. Like, only for five minutes. I was glad I was doing things in moderation today while I was playing guitar. All I could think while I was playing was, 'This is not fun, and I suck at this. I should go do something that requires less effort.' So I did.

Blog. Doing that now. I'm keeping it pretty moderate; however, this overlaps with my problem of being on the computer too much. Blogging is using a computer. Prior to this experiment I suspected that I was slowly dying from non-moderate computer use and today's events have helped confirm my suspicions.

Later I'm going to watch Curb Your Enthusiasm. I just downloaded four episodes and I want to watch them all right now. I'll probably only watch two since I'm trying to do this moderation thing today. That's pretty good if I only watch two. I think. I don't know.

So with these things in mind I went to the NYTimes Life-Expectancy Calculator and I entered my info for the day. It told me that I would die 14 years before most people because I live a life of excess and indulgence. Which is fine.

Conclusion: Use less computers, stop going to work, or at least stop staying there for so long, and eat more weird food and not too much of it. That's my advice to you.

This post was inspired by zenhabits.com and other self-help live-life-love-life type blogs that tell you how to do things that won't actually make your life better because you won't ever actually do the things they tell you to do. And they will actually just annoy you because you will think "the guy writing these things is a loser and why would I do any of this dumb stuff it's a lot of work."


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