I wish… February 15, 2008
that I had written this post on ALOTT5MA. Gosh, that’s pretty much every plane I have ever been on.
congratulations to Sara on her big news and best wishes to her and Chris.
good vibes to the HR department at Google and for them having the good sense to hire my sister.
that our house would stop being so cranky and doing strange things that force us to get handymen to do stuff that we can’t do because we’re not handy.
that I could be as disciplined with eating as Rick is. He’s like a waif at this point.
I would get my act together and write the posts for this blog I had promised. This weekend. Really.
I’ll just say it once, and then I’ll shut up. My thesis is this: only a small percentage of people (certainly less than half) are capable of having any *discipline* about eating. Neither of the two people in this household fall in that category. And this is why no sugar/extremely low carb diets work. You divide the food universe into two categories: 1) foods I can eat and 2) foods I cannot. Then you eat constantly in as large a quantities as you want and whenever you want from category 1. But the deal is this: you cannot *touch* food in category 2 or the whole thing collapses. (If you absolutely must sample small amounts of foods from all categories, then you need to go back to the discipined route.)
I know I sound like a believer, but that’s because I am one. Still, a friend of ours here, who had been wanting to lose weight since her first child was born 14 years ago, just went on our version of Atkins and 2 months later she’s just a couple of pounds away from her pre-first-kid weight.
Now this is me shutting up….