"I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I am not" ~ Kurt Cobain 180.1 lbs I popped back above 180, but the minor variance doesn't concern me much. It's mostly the kick in the psychological kishkas for passing an arbitrary number, when really I put on less than a pound since yesterday. The fact that I even mention it shows that it's a good thing the starvation phase is...
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"When you understand interconnectedness, it makes you more afraid of hating than of dying." ~ Robert Thurman 180.4 lbs In doing this project I've come to realize just how food is connected to so much of what we do, how we do it, and who we do it with. In the affluent United States, where 2/3rds of the adult population are overweight or obese, and 1/3 of children are already there...
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"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." ~ John Powell 181.4 lbs Today I tried to emulate the 'ghoul' scene from The Machinist, even though I'm around the weight Christian Bale was when he started his crash diet. Having lost about the same amount of weight as he did I feel we're kind of in the same camp. That and I'm one odd person. For those of you who haven't seen...
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181.7 lbs Okay, most of us know TV is not real. You're unlikely to find a hot blonde living in a bottle and willing to call you 'master', even if you are an astronaut. Doctors are so overworked they wouldn't be find time to log as many hours snogging in the supply room as they do solving complicated medical mysteries in 42 minutes or less. No cartoon "zow!" appears to the blare of trumpets...
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"A cautious people learns from its past; a sensible people can face its future. Canadians, on the whole, are both." ~ Desmond Morton 190.2 lbs Yay, it's Canada Day! For non-Canucks this is the day we celebrate having become a Dominion. Fireworks, festivities, music in the park... think "4th of July" but 3 days earlier and with stronger beer. Of course this year I can't touch the stuff....
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"In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, 'Make us your slaves, but feed us'". ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky 187.2 lbs It's official. I'm in the final 2 weeks of this phase of the project. Some of the email coming in is telling me "dude - people already know starvation is bad. Thanks Captain Obvious." When it comes to, say, internment camp or desert island starvation, yes....
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"If I had milk in the fridge, it would probably have more colour than I've got" ~me 189.7 lbs. I've been hearing that I'm pale more and more lately. I'm not sure if it's due to the starvation or that I spend less time outside than most of my friends in the summer sun. There are a few reasons I stay in during the day. My clothes don't fit that well anymore; shirts that were skin tight are...
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"Don't be obsessed by the mirror. It only reflects what you want to see." ~ Franca Sozzani 189 lbs. In this 100 day starvation project I've pointed out a few things that bear repeating. There is no magic bullet. Diet isn't something that can be reduced to a catch phrase or simple answer, it's a complex thing. And extremes of anything are usually the wrong answer. Moderation is the key. An...
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"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." ~Winston Churchill 189.4 lbs. Today I walked around the Broadway area (the artsy, "small town"ish section of my city - like Whyte Ave in Edmonton, Davie Street in Vancouver, and so forth) with a friend of mine visiting from out of town. I had just gone with him to a local bike shop where he'd purchased a bike...
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"A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her" ~ David Brinkley 195.2 lbs. On May 11th, 2010, Michelle Obama unveiled the White House task force report on solving childhood obesity. The goal defined in the 120-page document is to roll back the rate of childhood obesity in the United States to 5% by 2030, the same as it was in the...
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