Seem to have a pattern now of putting something up on this blog most Saturdays. Today will be no exception.
My two topics today, unrelated as they are, include: (1) losing weight and (2) two new books on the topic of writing I have been reading.
First, losing weight. I've got a wedding to attend in June and to do so I must either lose weight, buy a new suit, or feel extremely uncomfortable throughout the wedding and related festivities. Of the three options, the first obviously seems the most sensible--if I can summon the will.
I hereby summon the will.
I know what I need to do to make this happen. I stick to the Glycemic Index Diet as set forth in this book. It's something that works, when I stick to it. In a nutshell it involves lots of fruits and vegetables, high fiber food, limited meat and fat in general, moderate amounts of starch, and snacks like applesauce and yogurt. But there are particulars, outlined in the book, you follow for it to work best. You stick with high glycemic foods, i.e., those that take a lot of work for your body to process. The book by Rick Gallop is short, simple, and sensible, which is what I need for a diet to work. I can lose weight following the rules without feeling hungry (have done it before)as long as I don't start compulsively stuffing myself long after I'm full. (It requires I be happy and don't eat to comfort myself, etc. I need instead to find other forms of entertainment.)
No diet works when you are that way inclined (compulsively stuffing yourself after you are full) unless it's something like the Cabbage Soup Diet--something I tried, successfully, in preparation for another wedding many years ago. With that diet you're taking in gallons and gallons of low calorie liquid so that weight loss becomes inevitable. (Come to think of it, the same approach was used with success on prisoners in concentration camps during WWII.) Afterward, however, you become heartily and mightily repulsed by even the thought of another bowl of cabbage soup.
The big point here is that I have determined, made up my mind, what have you, to lose, between now and Saturday, June 6, a pound a week. My current weight (the average of my weight-ins for the past week) is 204.3. Therefore on June 6, 2009 my weight (the average of the previous seven days) should be 193.3 pounds or less. Now one pound a week is doable. I even can, once in a while, cheat ever so slightly, and still achieve it (partly because I will have been continuing to do my elliptical workouts as well as walk to work). If I cheat not at all, well, I could lose more. Do you care to join me in this quest for slenderhood, for a more comfortable fit into some article of clothing? Feel free!
I hereby declare that I shall post here the results of this endeavor next Saturday--and the next, and the next--to further spur myself on, if you will.
As for comments about the two books on writing, well, I shall save that for another time, perhaps, for life beckons.
My two topics today, unrelated as they are, include: (1) losing weight and (2) two new books on the topic of writing I have been reading.
First, losing weight. I've got a wedding to attend in June and to do so I must either lose weight, buy a new suit, or feel extremely uncomfortable throughout the wedding and related festivities. Of the three options, the first obviously seems the most sensible--if I can summon the will.
I hereby summon the will.
I know what I need to do to make this happen. I stick to the Glycemic Index Diet as set forth in this book. It's something that works, when I stick to it. In a nutshell it involves lots of fruits and vegetables, high fiber food, limited meat and fat in general, moderate amounts of starch, and snacks like applesauce and yogurt. But there are particulars, outlined in the book, you follow for it to work best. You stick with high glycemic foods, i.e., those that take a lot of work for your body to process. The book by Rick Gallop is short, simple, and sensible, which is what I need for a diet to work. I can lose weight following the rules without feeling hungry (have done it before)as long as I don't start compulsively stuffing myself long after I'm full. (It requires I be happy and don't eat to comfort myself, etc. I need instead to find other forms of entertainment.)
No diet works when you are that way inclined (compulsively stuffing yourself after you are full) unless it's something like the Cabbage Soup Diet--something I tried, successfully, in preparation for another wedding many years ago. With that diet you're taking in gallons and gallons of low calorie liquid so that weight loss becomes inevitable. (Come to think of it, the same approach was used with success on prisoners in concentration camps during WWII.) Afterward, however, you become heartily and mightily repulsed by even the thought of another bowl of cabbage soup.
The big point here is that I have determined, made up my mind, what have you, to lose, between now and Saturday, June 6, a pound a week. My current weight (the average of my weight-ins for the past week) is 204.3. Therefore on June 6, 2009 my weight (the average of the previous seven days) should be 193.3 pounds or less. Now one pound a week is doable. I even can, once in a while, cheat ever so slightly, and still achieve it (partly because I will have been continuing to do my elliptical workouts as well as walk to work). If I cheat not at all, well, I could lose more. Do you care to join me in this quest for slenderhood, for a more comfortable fit into some article of clothing? Feel free!
I hereby declare that I shall post here the results of this endeavor next Saturday--and the next, and the next--to further spur myself on, if you will.
As for comments about the two books on writing, well, I shall save that for another time, perhaps, for life beckons.
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