A (revised) Modest Proposal

From Jeanette Cool, via Debbie Majewski:
Subject: A Modest Proposal
Given the refusal of poor people to die when they are no longer needed by the Free Market
Given the refusal of poor people to pay their entire income for medical insurance, as they stubbornly insist in buying food
This Modest Proposal will ensure that every poor person will [...]

Project: Healthy

This has been a “one step forward, three steps back” kind of week.  For anyone keeping track, my weight loss total went down 2 lbs instead of up this week, which is very discouraging.  That’s because my daughter and my therapist beat it into my head that feeling guilty for eating 400 calories a day [...]

Project: Healthy

As of this morning, I officially hit my first weight loss goal—I’ve lost 15 lbs in 6 weeks. Next goal, to lose another 15 (total 30) by the end of March when I have my next medical check up.
I know some of you are worried about me, so I told the doctor that I’m [...]

Project:(Un)Healthy

This week I’ve gotten very, very frustrated.  In the first 3 weeks I lost 10 lbs by pushing my calorie consumption down to 500 per day instead of the 1200 – 1500 the doctor recommended.  But now, in attempting to bring my calorie count up to a level I can live with long term, I’m [...]

Project: Healthy

Week 3: 4 lbs.
Total: 10 lbs.
I’ve decided that instead of doing these updates as posts and making people feel obligated to comment, I’m moving my tally into the sidebar. I’m only write a post for significant events.

Project: Healthy

The diet is still going well. With Julie here for a visit it’s harder to keep my carb level down, because she does things like make me sticky toffee pudding, but it’s worth it. It was hard, but I ate one small piece and put the rest away.
I’m still not doing my time [...]

Project: Healthy

My dietary guidelines from my doctor:
1200-1500 calories per day
150 g. carbs or less
low to no fat
max. 2 whole grain starch servings (piece of bread, etc)
max. 2 fruit servings
max. 2 dairy servings
no potatoes
What I’m finding is that it’s nearly impossible to get to 1200 calories with only 2 starches a day – I’m averaging closer to [...]

Welcome 2010

Every January since 2005 I’ve made the same resolution, to treat my body as Wabi-Sabi.
“Wabi-Sabi is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete.
It is a beauty of things modest and humble.
It is a beauty of things unconventional”
–Leonard Koren, Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers Poets & Philosophers
But that can’t be the case this year, though it [...]

Black Bible Belt

Chuck Norris once again opens his mouth and shows that his brain is Missing In Action.  The acolyte of Mike Huckabee has been graced with a column on the right wing website “Human Events;  Headquarters of the Conservative Underground,” the better from which to lecture us on the evils of abortion.  He knows, because God [...]

3 steps forward, 2 steps back

Since I wrote last Monday, I’ve done very little except sleep and heal. So, feeling pretty good last night, I ventured out into the world for Asian food.  And ended up being Car #3 in a 4 car pile-up.
Luckily, no one was seriously injured. But my knee took a beating in the collision, [...]

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