recorded food again today. it's not very healthy! well, it could be worse, though. it has been worse. :) but i've accomplished day 3 of my 31 day vow.
Is it possible to just get less interested in food and stop thinking about it so much? I remember in one of marilyn vos savant's columns (she's hte high-iq woman in parade magazine), she talked about the importance of doing things you didn't feel like doing. she said the only spontaneous ideas she got involved food.
i laughed when i read that. i get lots of spontaneous ideas about work, puzzle solving, etc., but i also get a lot of spontaneous ideas about food. as in, "pizza would be great right now!"
i also find that food is the one thing i'm really never too lazy to pursue. i'll cheerfully drive across town for a good bacon cheeseburger and seasoned fries. but there are lots of other appealing things i skip because it's just too darn much trouble to arrange. food, however ... at any rate the tasty food i really like. i'll go to a lot of trouble to get it.
i would have made a good hunter-gatherer. always up for a grub expedition or a search for the juicy woolly mammoth.
"all you need to do is put a little more effort into it"
today I successfully recorded my food.
i also had a long conversation with a friend who tried to convince me that all i need to do to lose weight is "put a little more effort into it." He was actually trying to be helpful, but i found it really distressing. His good idea was that fat people just need to stay on a healthy diet. if they do that they'll lose weight. And if they don't do it, then they're not really serious about losing weight. I tried to explain to him why food is such a hard behavior to change, and why it's hard to be consistent at something like this over a period of months. i didn't make much headway. he said i was just making excuses.
i find this really aggravating. i've done lots of hard things in my life. i've accomplished a lot. losing weight is hard for me. other things (including getting a phd, living overseas, giving talks to 100+ people & writing several novels) were fairly easy.
i already know it's a problem, right? and i'm trying to address it.
i would love to get your thoughts on this.
hi everyone. I'm setting up my blog and having a little trouble with it. I've got an initial weight loss goal of 33 1/2 lbs, and an initial mini-goal of 5 lbs.
