The 14% Solution for Good Health...or Not

I remain unmotivated and listless...perhaps today it' the fault of Meatless Monday, perhaps not. My total intake of protein today came from some Kashii cereal...even the carbs I had for dinner failed to generate much enthusiasm. I'm seriously worried about myself. Luckily, Taco Tuesday is just around the corner. That's a 14% solution I can look forward to.
I'm not actually rambling, even though it seems like it.
Fourteen percent of our lives is spent on Mondays, and it's that day more than any that sends folks into paroxysms of depression. Maybe it's the back-to-work thing; maybe it's that we've upset our internal clock by adjusting our sleep schedule over the weekend to encompass all the fun stuff we did that we couldn't do during the week; maybe we've just come to expect Mondays to bite. At any rate, there can be a positive twist on it for those of you of a less carnivorous nature, and it's called Meatless Mondays, a program (if you can call it that) begun in 2003 by the non-profit group The Monday Campaigns in conjunction with Johns Hopkins medical folks in an effort to lower our intake of saturated fats, reduce our carbon footprint and conserve the water resources which are dwindling. The idea is simple: eat no meat on Monday, and not just for the alliterative benefit: supposedly, behaviors undertaken on Monday are more likely to be repeated throughout the week; and it's no secret that we all eat too much red meat. The city of San Francisco (go figure) was the first total city to adopt the Meatless Monday idea, opting to begin a few weeks ago on April 7th.
Critics? Oh yeah. Talking heads the likes of Glenn Beck indicate that such a plan is a design by the government to "indoctrinate our children into the ways of vegetarians" as if that were a terrorist plot. Beck goes on to say that we Americans love all forms of meat and that, should he be incarcerated and given a last meal, it would be the biggest steak he could get. OK, fine, but he speaks as if all of this is something new when it's not, really.
World War I gave us not only Meatless Mondays but Wheatless Wednesdays in an attempt to get better food for the boys "over there." Interesting...but being physically healthy has never sparked the "fun" for most people.
Maybe I need another Double Down from KFC.
Or maybe I'll just stay in bed tomorrow.