Man, dieting sucks.
I've been able to be a lot more active since I unchained from my desk, and have lost almost 30 pounds in the last year. I really let things get out of hand there for a long while. Yuk.
Still working at it. I'm mostly OK during the day, but the Late Night Hungry Horrors are my primary remaining dietary hurdle.
Isn't aging fun?
Reminds me of this old email joke (not original with me) about A.A.A.D.D. - Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder:
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I decide to wash my car. As I start toward to the garage, I notice that there is mail on the hall table. I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car.
I lay my car keys down on the table, put the junk mail in the trash can under the table, and notice that the trash can is full.
So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and take out the trash first, but then I think that since I’m going to be near the mailbox when I take out the trash anyway, I may as well pay the bills first.
I take my checkbook off the table and see that there is only one check left. My extra checks are in my desk in the study, so I go to my desk where I find the can of Coke that I had been drinking. I’m going to look for my checks, but first I need to push the Coke aside so that I don’t accidentally knock it over.
I see that the Coke is getting warm, and I decide I should put it in the refrigerator to keep it cold.
As I head toward the kitchen with the Coke, a vase of flowers on the counter catches my eye–they need to be watered.
I set the Coke down on the counter and I discover my reading glasses that I’ve been searching for all morning.
I decide I’d better put them back on my desk, but first I’m going to water the flowers.
I set the glasses back down on the counter, fill a container with water, and suddenly I spot the TV remote. Someone left it on the kitchen table.
I realize that tonight, when we go to watch TV, we will be looking for the remote, but nobody will remember that it’s on the kitchen table, so I decide to put it back in the den where it belongs, but first I’ll water the flowers.
I splash some water on the flowers, but most of it spills on the floor. So, I set the remote back down on the table, get some towels and wipe up the spill.
Then I head down the hall trying to remember what I was planning to do.
At the end of the day; the car isn’t washed, the bills aren’t paid, there is a warm can of Coke sitting on the counter, the flowers aren’t watered, there is still only one check in my checkbook, I can’t find the remote, I can’t find my glasses, and I don’t remember what I did with the car keys.
Then, when I try to figure out why nothing got done today, I’m really baffled because I know I was busy all day long and I’m really tired. I realize this is a serious problem, and I’ll try to get some help for it, but first I’ll check my e-mail....
May I recommend a book? Intuitive Eating by Tribole and Resch. Most of us overeat for reasons that have nothing whatsoever to do with hunger. The trick is finding out what those reasons are and dealing with them in a non-food way. Easier said than done, of course. (And when it comes down to it, food is a better coping mechanism than a whole lot of other things I can think of.)
ReplyDeleteOn a different note, I went to acupuncture recently as I heard good things about it with respect to migraines. I quit going as it didn't help my migraines (and it may have made my back pain worse - or maybe not, but something did). But ever since I went there, my appetite's been down. And understand, I LOVE to eat. Always have. (I'm a supertaster too.) So not having food constantly call to me is a little weird.
In any case, congrats on your success and good luck! :-)
I've tried several diet books. Most were dry and needed a lot of sauce. I even had to braise some of the hardbacks to make them soft enough to eat. But once softened, even Betty Crocker tastes Ok with fava beans and a nice chianti...
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Fred, I know this is off-topic but I thought it's something you ought to know (or can pass to the appropriate person): I've been doing searches at langa.com (which I know you no longer own), but when I click on a result (such as http://www.langa.com/newsletters/2005/2005-07-21.htm), the webpage comes up and then gets redirected to www.langalist.com - which is currently being held as an ad page and has popped up at least one porn page.
ReplyDeleteGotta love the "getting older" memory tricks, or "CRS" as some call it... Was delighted to find Tom Rush's "Remember" on YouTube, which I heartily recommend!
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Enjoy!
Dennis M.
Barstow
Hi, Fred. I'm the fellow biker whose place you have ridden by several times without stopping :-)
ReplyDeleteAnyway, here's another diet recommendation. It eliminates the evening hungries. I found out about it reading Scientific American's article about people who experimented on themselves. The guy is Seth Roberts, and the book is the Shangri-La diet. Google it and you'll find a lot of stuff; I bought the book and it's a short, interesting read. I keep thinking it doesn't work for me, but I've lost 15 pounds the past three months and I feel like I'm overeating all the time. If you ever do stop by, lunch is on me.
Fred, the ol' guy in the post - if that was me in similar condition, I'd be happy that I could still remember the advice to give; who to give it to, and even happier to remember what it meant. It'd definitely be a successful day.
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