Well, it's been a long time since I last posted anything here, and my weight loss efforts are worse for it. Not because I quit posting, but the not posting was a symptom of the boredom with the diet and the whole weight loss 'thang'.I quit going to WW sometime in September, 2009. I went for about 6 months, but the last 6 weeks or so, my heart just wasn't in it. I really get tired of all that darn tracking, even though I'm sure it helps. I got down, reliably, to 191. I was even 189 for about a half an hour. I've been creeping up ever since Christmas, and this morning the scales tipped in at a half pound over 200. Ick. I hate having fat genes, fat taste buds and a fat disposition. Damn.
So here I am, vowing to work at it again. I walked for half an hour yesterday, and am going to try to eat no sugary foods or snacks. I've been reading again, because that's the only thing that can make me realize that all the foods I crave are nothing but poison.
I've been reading Michael Pollan's 'Food Rules'. The rules are pretty simple and can be boiled down to seven words: Eat food. Mostly plants. Not too much. By "food" he means real food, not the stuff he calls "edible foodlike substances". If it's made by a food scientist in a lab, don't eat it. Stick to the periphery of the grocery store. Hang out with the vegetables. You know the one about not eating white stuff (not a Pollan rule BTW).
There was a new show on TV last night about an English chef, Jamie Oliver, who is trying make us realize that we eat too much crap and processed foods. I also watched King Corn last week, a movie about how we're killing ourselves with cheap food. This Iowa corn grown with government subsidies, is just about the cheapest of the cheap. (Is the government trying to kill us?) We can't eat it, so we grind it, feed to cattle, and it makes them sick. We have to give the cattle tons of antibiotics to keep them healthy enough so we can kill them (before they die of acidosis from their crappy-ass corn diet) and make them into more cheap food. This crappy corn is also made into high fructose corn syrup and added to practically every food manufactured. It has zero nutrition, but we swig it down by the thousands of gallons every day in sodas and a jillion other products. Sickening. I have another movie to watch, Food, Inc., and I'm hoping it influences me to stop eating so much crap, too.
So, anyway, the name my tune is Try, try again....
