Home Can Be the Pennsylvania Turnpike
No one caught the Billy Joel reference in my last post to CR Comm. Why, oh why, did I ever think that anyone would get my pop music references?
I'm about to get back on the PA Turnpike.
Later.
I'm about to get back on the PA Turnpike.
Later.
posted by April @ 4:40 AM
4 Comments:
At 8:56 PM,
Anonymous said…
I guess I'm the negative responder. I actually am concerned. Per your request, I read the CR stuff. I'm sorry to say that it doesn't sound like you're really following it. Per your blog, your eating is getting more restrictive, your weight loss is not slow and really, you're not getting the nutrition your body needs. (And a pop tart is not so horrible when your body's malnourished.) Your other commenter scares me too. Why would people speak of anorexia for no reason? What would be their interest in mentionning it if they weren't truly worried? Anorexia is too pervasive in this culture and it kills, it really does. And part of anorexia is the belief that everything is fine, that you're invulnerable. Malnourished people can drop with no warning. And anyone can find a doctor who's ignorant about eating disorders and who colludes with self-destruction.
At 10:43 PM,
Anonymous said…
>(And a pop tart is not so horrible when
> your body's malnourished.)
This reminds me of the book Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. In the book, the four horsemen of the appocalypse all live on earth in various manifestations. My favorite of all is Famine. Famine existed in the real world as the CEO of a fast food empire. He had slowly removed all nutritional content from the food that was eaten, and then added sugar and fat to it, so people would then be able to die of malnutrition, while still being horribly obese.
Funny part about someone saying you're not eating enough is that I made a slight alteration to your black bean soup recipe to make what I'm calling "Poor Man's Feijoada". Now, I only used one can of black beans, and I'm a big guy, or at least my stomach is stretched beyond recognition (I at one point was able to eat a 4 pound burrito in one sitting to win a t-shirt -- but that's a story for a different time), and I could barely eat that soup, there was just too much goodness (but oh did I rave about how good it was all day, so yummy... must have more, but stomach too full). This is not even considering the fact that I ran it through NutritionData and found how wonderful it was for my body as well. Nothing like discovering something that takes so little effort, tastes so good, and is soooooo good for you as well (at a decent level of calories to boot).
At 10:49 PM,
Anonymous said…
Random thought, if people thing that you're starting to eat much less, perhaps providing a daily caloric total (and not leaving it as an exercise to the reader) would help with that, it might serve well for you as well...
At 6:33 PM,
Anonymous said…
"Negative Commenter" wrote:
"Per your blog, your eating is getting more restrictive, your weight loss is not slow"
It certainly is at the moment, though it wasn't early on.
" (And a pop tart is not so horrible when your body's malnourished.)"
Nonsense! Adding more sugar to a malnourished body leaves it just as malnourished.
"Why would people speak of anorexia for no reason? What would be their interest in mentionning it if they weren't truly worried?"
They can be truly worried, and dead wrong.
" Anorexia is too pervasive in this culture and it kills, it really does."
Anorexia, media hype to the contrary, is mind-numbingly rare. It is most prevalent in teenaged girls, amongst whom the incidence is <1.5% and probably lower still; it becomes rarer as people get older. Anorexia should be treated seriously where it occurs, but it is just absurd how much hype this gets in the face of the obesity epidemic.
-Michael
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