It's official. The entire planet is on a diet. There is not one magazine, one yahoo page, one book, one talk show, one man woman or child who is not reading or talking about diet. I knew that before, but not really. It was an intellectual sort of knowing. Now that I'm actually trying to do my own diet, my eyes hurt from seeing other diets everywhere I look. How do so many magazines get published all with the same article: "Lose ten pounds!" Sure in one magazine it's in a few weeks, the other is without hunger, the other lets you keep your energy, but they're all the same.
How freaking lucky are we, as a society, that we have so much food that we spend all our time and money trying to eat less of it. It's unbelievable really... How lucky are we, that we need four hundred magazines to tell us to walk twenty minutes a day. Think about it. We have so many cars, we have so little need for manual labor that we have to force ourselves to walk. My head is spinning. It occurs to me that all the presidential candidates are running on the wrong issues. If one of them stood up and said, "I know how we can all be thin" he, or she, would win in a landslide. I believe I heard Huckabee lost a hundred or so pounds. Advice Mr. Huckabee: Don't discuss any other issue. Just tell America over and over that you lost the weight and we can too. You're in, man.
It's one of those hell in handbasket days. I know longer believe there are red and blue states. I think there are over eaters and food nazis who are trying to stop over eating. The over eaters are those of us who like food and don't count calories and carbs. We don't read labels because we don't want to know. We enjoy food and will cover our ears when you tell us how they make a hot dog. Then there are the crazy ladies who want to outlaw candy and sodas. They're in a fierce battle against fast food restaurants and schools and anyone else they can accuse of serving fat or sugar. They believe deep down that food is the cause of all our problems... ( It's at least as evil as smoking) and they hope to change the world one Hostess yoyo at a time.
In theory I'll side with the fatties. It's more libertarian. Still I am trying to shake that weight. It would be nice to comfortably button my pants. I consider myself as trying to bridge the gap... create a way of eating that includes all fabulous foods but still considers health by adding in water and vitamins and yes... walking... it's a olive branch to both sides. I can be a healthy pig... I pray this works... If I simply gain weight or stay the exact same, I'll live to tell about it, but I'll grumpy at the reunion.
To that end:
yesterday's food: english muffin, egg, jam, tea... (forgot vitamins)
whole back of cheddar cheese popcorn
chicken pesto sandwich
beef stew, wine chocolate
Totally blew off fruit and regret that.
Today: cereal and banana... good start.. .vitamins... TBContinued!
Today I'm grateful that fatties and thinnies can all live together in peace
I'm grateful for my diet
I'm grateful for all the magazines filled with diets
I'm grateful for Joey's pre-school
I'm grateful he won't cry tomorrow, like every other day and make me feel like weeping with despair at leaving him in pre-school
I'm grateful Joey eats real food and not candy (which appears to be his preference)
I'm grateful for losing so much weight without any pain at all
I'm grateful the writer's strike is ending soon so my family can go back to our usual problems.
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