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TV Shows that make me crazy

So my job rocks where I get to work from home one day a week. SUCH a blessing. So since I never get to watch daytime TV, my Wednesdays are a treat for me when I do get to stay home and work. Yes I do lots of work at home even with the TV on in the background. 🙂 From now on though, I think after my Y&R is over at 1:30 the TV will be going off and music will be played instead. Yesterday, after listening to The Talk and Dr. Oz, I find myself thinking that I need to throw everything away in my pantry, change my family’s diet, and change everything and anything we eat. I realized that these types of shows make me a crazy person. For instance, one segment was showing viewers the hidden sugars in foods you normally would think are healthy. OMG. That is where my crazy started. The expert showed a jar of pasta sauce and explained if you eat one cup of pasta sauce a day for a year, you would have consumed 40 cups of sugar (or something like that), but, she went on, if you would switch to a tomato basil sauce, you’d only consume 20 cups of sugar (the exact cups of sugar are not exact but you get the point). So after I hear that I go in my pantry and sure enough I have the ‘bad’ pasta sauce and immediately think-Oh my goodness…I’m feeding my family garbage. But then I take a step back….and think…wait a minute….who in the heck eats a cup of pasta sauce a day? My family surely doesn’t…we maybe have it once a week or every other week. So I start to talk myself back to reality a little bit. We have very active kids (yes they like their video games too), they love fruits and veggies (but yes they eat donuts every now and then too), and definitely don’t come from a family with obesity problems (diabetics yes, so sugar consumption is an issue and will be kept on watch). So back to normal we will continue, but I will never flip on those TV shows again…maybe I need to DVR The Chew so I can learn how to cook better and have yummy meals (that are healthy). That won’t make me AS crazy….but wait…when do I have time to cook? LOL…the cycle continues…