"Esse est percipi" ~ George Berkeley 189.1 lbs I'm at the point now where I'm counting the days until I'm finished these 100 days, and the end is in sight. On the one hand I have a long road of recovery ahead of me - working out like mad to keep from blimping up as I start eating again after hammering my metabolism to a dead stop - but on the other hand I'll be free of stressing over every...
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"He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened." ~ Tao Te Ching 190.8 lbs. Still hovering around the 190 mark. It's depressing to be going through all the stresses of starvation without the dramatic shrinking the news media are clamoring for. With less than a month to go I'm also starting to think about the upcoming recovery phase; getting my BMR back up to speed so I...
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"Arsenic is edible. Only once." ~ Unknown 189.9 lbs A block north of me is a church that hosts a Farmer's Market once a week. A block west of me is Broadway Avenue, the artsy district I've written about before, that occasionally closes down a portion of the street to host an even larger (but less frequent) Farmer's Market. I'm a fan. At these markets you can find everything from fresh...
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"People will do more research into the cellphone they buy than into the food they eat." ~ James McWilliams 190.1 lbs Once again my weight is hovering, not dropping. But fortunately I found the culprit rather quickly. This week I've not eaten much at all. But among the things I did eat were a couple of veggie dogs. These are fake wieners that I'd bought for a barbecue a while back (prior...
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"BP. Because you aren't mad enough to not drive your car." ~Totally made up new British Petroleum slogan 189.9 lbs. In doing this project I encounter a lot of arguments that I think are silly. Like the school boards who argue that feeding kids crap in the cafeterias is a perfectly cromulant way of keeping the budget in check, nevermind all the hyperactivity, obesity, etc. caused by such a...
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"People are more opposed to fur than leather because rich ladies are easier to harass than bikers." ~ Bumper sticker 193.9 lbs. Weight loss from starvation, check. Muscle atrophy, check. Social isolation, check. Oy. I can't emphasize enough that the reason I'm starving myself is to raise awareness of how we should eat, and why. I don't condone it; in fact quite the opposite. If you're...
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"Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart." ~ Erma Bombeck 201.8 lbs. Getting close, but no cigar. Still, if I drop 2 lbs in the next 2 days I'll still pass the pale of dropping 40 lbs in the first 50 days. I get a few emails of the "reads, shots, and leaves" variety - people who apparently skim an article and immediately start clacking...
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206 lbs. A slight uptick in my weight again, but I can feel in my gut that it's "Beethoven syndrome". I haven't had a movement in a while. Due to a funding crunch my diet has been nothing but tuna for the past couple of days, which tends to gum things up. Ah, the life of a low budget film maker... so glamorous! The irony here would be if I were allergic to tuna. Or at least sensitive to...
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"There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less." ~ Bertrand Russell 209.1 lbs No, I'm not saying I make money from this blog. But a lot of my readers write in saying "that's all well and good, but buying good food is expensive...
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"In the Middle Ages, they had guillotines, stretch racks, whips and chains. Nowadays, we have a much more effective torture device called the bathroom scale. " ~Stephen Phillip 207.6 lbs. I set a few milestones for myself when I undertook this project, and I was hoping to be down 40 lbs by the halfway mark at Day 51. So far I'm on track with 16 days to drop 7.6 lbs. Remember, I'm...
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