Cathy Classics by Cathy Guisewite for August 03, 2013

Now they do.

Even if there are nutrition facts on fast food items, people still seem to make bad choices. I think that each person needs to make the conscious decision for himself that he is going to eat healthy. Once that decision has been made, they will figure out what they should be eating.Good morning, Cathy clan!

“Have the ambulance park outside the McDonalds today, Honey. I’m going for a couple of Big Macs, large fries and milkshakes!”

Trouble with America? It’s always someones else’s fault, never your own.

Fast food restaurants no longer push to “supersize” unless you request it.

The problem is that people ignore the fact that places like that should be a occasional indulgence, not the norm.

Hi Cathy Clan!

I’m actually one of those people who look for the calories on fast food. I was happy to see Chipotle opened up in my area, with vegetarian beans. However, the one bowl I got took three days to finish, plus I had some left over when I tossed the remainder. It was supposedly less than 1000 calories, but I doubt that.

In the “Land of the Free”, when did it become someone else’s responsibility/fault for the bad choices that we make in life? No one is holding a gun to anybody’s head and is forcing them to drive to a fast-food restaurant and consume huge quantities of calorie-laden, artery-clogging food . . . causing them to get fat, develop diabetes, have heart-attacks, strokes and other serious health problems. That’s something everyone who has those problems has decided to do of their own free will. This is a VERY correctable problem but it’s just easier to blame someone else rather than admit out loud that we’re weak, lazy, spineless and have absolutely no willpower whatsoever . . . when all we really need to do is just say NO instead!!!!!

Hi, rgcviper!

lightenup: Thanks for providing your e-mail address. I’ll try to write you sometime soon. Between the continuing process of cleaning up my office again this summer, cross stitching something for a dear friend of mine who’s retiring from her job the first of December, housework, yard work, and helping my mother out with anything she needs, it doesn’t leave me with much time left getting anything done but the “bare essentials” [like cruising by “Cathy’s Corner”, of course!] when I finally do get online at some point during my day. I’m just so busy right now that I don’t even have time to get on Pinterest anymore [and that was my biggest obsession for about 3 months straight earlier this year!]. I would say I look forward to getting all my work done someday but somehow, I just don’t see that EVER happening though!!!!! ;-)

Hello and Happy Saturday, fellow “Cathy” fans. Hope everyone’s having a really nice weekend so far!!!!! :-)

And whose decision is it to actually EAT all that fast food? [Eye-roll]

On the other hand, this might be a good time to use an automated external defibrillator.

Y’know … those devices where people yell “CLEAR!” as they zap someone with the electronic paddles.

HI, MOM. Hello, “Cathy” Clan.

I think nutrition facts are good, but making it illegal to buy a big gulp just seems silly as well as messing with peoples’ rights. And I don’t buy big gulps because that’s more soda than I want all at once.

The sad part is that these are the cheapest meals going — and for folks working 2 or 3 jobs and barely scraping by, it’s cheaper to go to these places than it is to cook at home.