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  Day 77 – Sometimes Efficiency Isn’t Efficient

  June 20, 2010 / 100 Days of Starvation, Feed Your Head, Food, Tips

  “If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes.” ~John Wooden 186.4 lbs One of the reasons we eat so much prepackaged food is “efficiency”. Although our ancestors looked at the changes the industrial revolution had wrought and foresaw a future where we’d do nothing but picnic and play sports all day while efficient machines drove productivity, we know that isn’t what happened. Instead you find yourself microwaving a burrito while scrambling [...]

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  Day 9 – Full of Crap

  April 13, 2010 / 100 Days of Starvation, The Status Quo

  “An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.” ~ H. L. Mencken 223.3 lbs The last couple of days I hadn’t had what gets euphemistically called a BM in a while. That’s probably why I was only losing about a half pound a day. When I finally had a good sit, I was pounds lighter when I stood up again. Some people are voracious eaters. [...]

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  Day 2 – Are You Kidding Me?

  April 6, 2010 / 100 Days of Starvation, Rants

  “I mean, seriously, we are a culture that can stand in front of a microwave with a burrito in it and scream ‘FASTER!‘” ~ Ross Brown 233 lbs. I’m pretty sure the 6 lb loss was water weight. There was a lot of peeing going on yesterday. I mean like Bob McKenzie putting out a fire.It sure wasn’t weight loss due to activity – I made some calls, had a few visitors… that’s about it. I was about as active [...]

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