Stop the insanity!!!

Remember that Susan Powter commerical where she screams "STOP THE INSANITY" from the nineties?  I do.  It was pretty freaking funny if you ask my, but she had a good point.  After looking at her website, she is a little batshit crazy, but overall, she's trying to get us to empower ourselves, literally.

I think about the definition of insantiy and how there a couple different ways to define insantiy.  Merriam-Webster defines insanity as "a severely disordered state of mind, usually occurring as a specific disorder (as paranoid schizophrenia)."  I prefer to think about Albert Einstein, who has been credited with authoring the amusing definition "doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results."  But there's some debate that he actually said that.  So again, I go to research the interwebs and come across a similar quote: "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results" by Rita Mae Brown.  Rita Mae Brown??? Isn't that the name of the character Whoopi Goldberg played in Ghost?  Oh, wait, She played Oda Mae Brown, who then impersonated the fictional person Rita Miller and took all the money.  Whoa!  I digress...  The point, doing the same thing, expecting different results.  Now, I'm a scientist, and have practiced the scientific method of research for years.  One of the central dogmas of the scientific method for doing research is that you should well document your experiment.  Why you might ask?  For reproducibility.  Another person should be able to come along and perform the same actions and get the same result... on purpose.  So with that in mind, if you change any one variable in your experiment, you should get different results.  Stay with me here.  I'm trying to bring it home.  All these years I've been overweight, I've somehow been expecting that it will just miraculously disappear.  For some dumb reason, I thought my metabolism would just suddenly take an upswing and the pounds would fall off, even though I haven't changed one damn thing in my lifestyle.  Insanity, right?

So here I am, finally ready to make that change.  Even still though, this morning I found how difficult that is going to be.  The convenience of fast food and the lure of it's deliciousness.  I was sucked in.  I got a sausage McMuffin and a large diet coke.  I took off half the english muffin and tossed it in the trash.  I didn't even get the hash browns to be tempted by yummy fried potatoes.  Ugh!!  Already!  So let's take a look at what I did eat versus what I used to eat.

Past:
Sausage Egg McMuffin - Calories: 450, Fat: 27, Cholesterol: 285, Sodium: 920, Carbs: 30, Fiber: 2
Hash Browns - Calories: 150, Fat: 9, Cholesterol: 0, Sodium: 310, Carbs: 15, Fiber: 2
Total - Calories: 600, Fat: 36, Cholesterol: 285, Sodium: 1230, Carbs: 45, Fiber: 4

Today:
Sausage Egg McMuffin - Calories: 450-66=384, Fat: 27-0.5=26.5, Cholesterol: 285, Sodium: 920-123=797, Carbs: 30-12=18, Fiber: 2-1=1.  (I found nutritional data online for the english muffin then halved it to deduct for the half I didn't eat.)

So percent improvement
Calories: 41%
Fat: 26%
Cholesterol: 0%
Sodium: 35%
Carbs: 60%
Fiber: 75% (not good)

So yeah, it was better than eating all that, but it still isn't what I should be eating at all.  Whenever I think about breakfast food, I think of carbohydrate laden food.  Suffice it to say, that I need to do some serious work in this department.  But I felt "full" or "sated" for several hours. 

Awesome!