I had a rough week. Actually, I’ve had a rough month. Some stuff came to a head this week, and I said to myself, “time to start looking for a counselor.” Mistake number one. At first, I was irritated because I was only finding counselors who identified as ‘Christian counselors.’ I find this offensive mostly [...]
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, 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, [...]
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 [...]
So, I’ve noticed people have a habit here that I have never seen before in my years of professional work. Here’s the set-up: a not-so-thin woman in her 30′s or 40′s stands in front of the vending machine in the break room. She has no change in her hand, she is simply looking. A man [...]
Sometimes I envy our cat a little bit, at least where food is concerned. Kara pours food out of a bag and into a bowl for her, she eats it whenever she’s hungry, and it keeps her healthy and fit. Maybe that sounds strange since food is supposed to be such a romantic thing. In [...]
I’ve been thinking today. When does something become a habit? I’ve been dieting for a little over a month, now. Sometime, over the last week or two, I just realized I don’t really care about what I can’t eat any more. I stopped seeing everything in terms of being deprived or denied something. I can’t [...]
This is a quick follow-up to an earlier post in which I laid out a hypothesis about what makes people fat. At the end of that post, I mentioned that I was going to modify my diet for a week to test out some of the basic ideas that underlie that hypothesis…specifically, that weight loss [...]
Kara and I are plugging steadily away on the Medifast diet, a program consisting of 5 daily high-protein meals of approximately 100 Calories each plus a “lean and green” protein-vegetable combination and a few condiments and healthy fats. The weight loss is steady, and at first it’s fairly impressive. Medifast just barely qualifies a low-carbohydrate [...]
So Kara and I are back on Medifast, one of the diets we’ve tried and failed before. I don’t really want to get into it too much (yet) since I’m sick of this blog becoming a chronicle of diets we’ve blown, and I don’t like feeling like dieting is becoming a hobby. But I would [...]