Hmmm...A new career path?

Watch out Speilberg! Here comes Stacy Cain! Ha! Anyway, Mike and Steve went on a fishing trip this past weekend and I (nervously) let Steve take our new video camera with them. He took a few minutes of video so I used the software that came with the camera to patch it all together and put a title and some credits. Hope you enjoy it!

WARNING! Fish WERE harmed in the making of this video! However, they were only yummy fish.

Not Too Shabby!

Here is something that makes me feel pretty good. This is my weight loss graph and stats from Evenhealth.com.

This is a really cool website. It has lots of features that I don't take the time to use, but I do track my weight in it. I also do my ticker (that cow on the measuring tape at the top of the page) on this site. It actually even automatically updates my ticker when I enter a new weight which is a real time saver.

On the graph here, you can actually totally ignore all of the up and down before February. I think it just needs to fill in the graph, so it draws in random peaks and valleys.

One of the other cool things is the average weight loss on the bottom right. When I have a "no loss" week or something like that, I just look at my graph and my average weight loss and I feel pretty darn good about myself.

The Tuna Diatribe

Okay....Ladies and Gentlemen....I present for your inspection the source of my current confusion. This picture is of two seemingly identical cans of Bumble Bee Tuna. They are both 6 oz. of Solid White Albacore packed in water. However, my confusion arose when I rolled them over to check their fat and calories so that I could calculate points.

First, check out the serving size. I know it might be hard to read, but I assure you that they both claim that 1/4 cup or 2oz. drained is a serving. Now check out the number of servings. HUH?! One can says that it has 2 servings and the other says 2.5 servings. How does one can have a half-serving more than the other??

Now, I should stop here and tell you that, either way, both of these cans calculated out to 3 points for the can. This, however, still confused the pants off of me because I swore up and down that I had been eating tuna that the whole can was 2 points. Steve said I must have calculated wrong and so we bought these. However, when I got home and looked at the one's we had on hand, here is what I found. We had two cans that were also White Albacore Tuna from two other manufacturers. The Chicken of the Sea was 5oz and the StarKist was 4.5 oz.

GUESS which can calculates out to 2 points for the can???? The 5 oz Chicken of the Sea!

The two new tunas also have the claimed 1/4 cup, 2oz drained serving size. However, despite their size difference (and the fact that they are both at least one ounce lighter than the Bumble Bee tuna) they BOTH claim to have 2 servings. Even more confusing, despite the fact that they should be exactly the same type of fish, one purports to have 50 calories per serving and one supposedly has 60. If you remember, our Bumble Bee has 70.

I guess what really frustrates me is that I consider myself to be an intelligent and reasonable person, but I wanted to forcibly remove my hair after trying to figure out why type of physics manipulations the tuna companies must be performing on their fish when they pack it!

I wouldn't be surprised if you could easily find people who didn't know what a Tuna was (other than something in a can) so how can people make an informed decision when the information is so clearly skewed?

Okay, I got it out of my system....I feel better now. I'm gonna go pet my dog while my blood pressure evens out....