Thursday, September 29, 2011
So… I came across this “comic” posted on facebook by an acquaintance. I always assumed vegetarians got their protein at the same store where they got their self-congratulatory, moralistic, righteousness. I love you assholes. But you’re still just making emotional appeals for a lifestyle that has never actually happened naturally at any point in human [...]
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Rapidly changing your habits can feel like a godsend at first. It makes you feel powerful and in-control and that’s all wonderful. When you change quickly, the people around you notice. You can ride that high for months. I’m not strictly speaking about my diet, although that’s certainly an aspect of me that has changed in [...]
Sunday, September 11, 2011
When the twin towers went down, I was in class. I was sixteen years old. My AP world history teacher peeked his head in the door and told the teacher of that class (English, maybe?) to turn the tv on. We watched the second tower go down live. By the time we heard about the [...]
Thursday, September 1, 2011
I’m not a sappy person. In spite of whatever this blog says or shows, 95% of the time, I am a person focused largely on what is rational, reasonable, logical, sensible. In the past, this was often to the detriment of my own emotional health. But that’s not what I came to say. About four [...]
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
So, I’ve been tracking my eating with Lose It (the app for my phone and on the web) for a full month. A month ago, Michael and I sat down with some numbers, for example: The number which represents the dollar amount we spend monthly on food for me (Medifast – 5 meals a day, [...]
At some point, as people grow, they realize a few things. Well, some of us do and others of us never do. But in order to grow into a happy person, a person realizes at the very least that they are responsible for their own happiness. I guess what I mean is this – everyone [...]
Saturday, August 13, 2011
I’ve been up for 2 (two) hours. Here is how my morning began. Wake up to cat scratching around my side of the bed. Yell at her. Hear a little more scratching, then nothing. Fall back asleep for a few minutes. Wake up to cat scratching again, sit up to yell at her. Cat crawls [...]
So, Michael decided to invest in a straight razor. Among all the old man toys (hair tonic, shaving oil, freaking terrifying straight razor) were two toothbrushes. Made of badger hair. There is something vaguely disconcerting about shoving an animal in your mouth. I mean, an animal which you’re not consuming for nutrients. But, let me [...]
Isn’t it incredible how many people trust their own intuition over everything else? Either that or everyone I’ve run into in the part hour or so has the uncanny ability to be everywhere and know everything. Yeah. You know more watching nancy grace than 12 people like you know after listening to testimony from experts [...]
I haven’t talked a lot about my diet on this blog. I have purposefully not talked a lot about my diet on this blog. This blog sort of became the chronicle of my failed diets. I hate that. I hate that because I have, at one prior point in my life, lost fifty pounds. I [...]