watch out for the sauces!

Yeap, the evil sauces. Why? Because they add stupid calories to your food.
I say, no one is perfect and living on algae is no fun, therefore, we all must choose our stupid calories wisely.
Human nature is inquisitive and indulgent, so it is OKAAAAAAAY to enjoy food, to drink alcohol socially, to taste the goodness of KFC, and to have bacon for breakfast - sometimes! You see, there are already plenty of stupid calories floating around and we all want our share. So don't let the sneaky stupid cals take up the room for the occasional stumble and poison your foods.
The sneaky sauces, such as marinades, ketchup, anything Thai, anything dipping, anything teriyaki will add flavor and calories to your foods, mostly in disguise of my favorite condiment, the corn syrup! These can be easier avoided and left off, making room for that 1/4 of decadent dessert that you might indulge in. Or that glass of wine. Or that piece of bread. In any case, avoiding sauces has worked well for me, and avoiding piling up stupidity works even better. For instance, one cannot have wine, bread, pasta and dessert in one meal. In my case, I would choose wine and pasta. Or wine and one piece of bread. Or just wine. Furthermore, the stupid calories have to be carefully accounted for - just because you only choose one item, it doesn't mean you can have a bushel of it. Or barrel, or a whole dessert. One should never consume a full order of any sweet or starchy food that is served in a restaurant.

Another human notion is gathering. We gather stuff, including wealth, food clothes, and other collectibles. It's pretty much pointless. It is greedy and has no benefit to us, it actually makes one miserable, fat, pretentious and miserable. And fat. So instead of gathering and accumulating, try having needs satisfied and sharing the surplus. Save for later, but what's not used, don't discard - give away!
I am not a socialist - I believe in individuality and having good traits and deeds rewarded. But I do not believe in building dynasties for future generations to squander, and having to buy perfumes of Tori Spelling and Paris Hilton. Why? I think if someone doesn't know how to use wealth and what to do with it, to make oneself worthy of having it in the first place, than it's a waste anyway, might as well give it away. I also do not believe in supporting useless people (I use this in its harsh sense) or providing for the ones who waste themselves and contribute nothing to this world. So where is the balance??? I really don't know. But I do know that Bill Gates is doing a lot with his fortune and that each of us have to stop gathering stupid calories and stupidity, period. Less is more, believe me!
Many of our current issues revolve around the greedy gathering characteristic of our race... just take a look at everyone's giant house that no one could afford and now being written off, accumulating more debt. Just take a look at our need to get bigger plates served at the restaurant so we can buy products and services that promise instant fixes without us expanding effort. Just take a look at having all monies on the market only to make more monies that will be invested back into the market to earn more monies - and loosing the whole stupid illusion, all at once...Just take a look at our appetite to devour everything and our need to stand out by having more (of anything; botox, guns, clothes, cars) that has no real meaning in the universe and in the course of human history anyway. If Galileo lived now and preached about how tiny Earth is and how we don't see the big picture - we might burn him on a pile of wood chips too. Consumption is the enemy, and on top of that, the sauces.

So forgive my rant (again), and stay away from the sauces. Big fixes don't happen overnight, and sauce seem to be a good first step:)
Instead of treating symptoms we should nix the cause. THAT is the only permanent fix, my friends.