thebean's blog

As with most things in my life, my brain, over packed to the brim with impossibily nerdy things like Star Wars/Trek trivia, a complete working knowledge of WoW (even though I haven't played in a couple of years), and other such things, attaches a Simpsons, Family Guy or Futurama quote to nearly everything I do.  Failing that, I can always fall back on "that's what she said"...and often do.

So, I admit, I've fallen off the wagon lately.  Hell...I probably would have eaten the wagon, if it were made out of delicious food instead of wood.  I'm not *that* fat.  I've stopped walking, but thats really more of a function of the fact that it hasn't stopped snowing for more than 45 minutes in a week than a lack of desire to continue chasing that SOB Scott around downtown Auburn twice a day. 

Last couple of weeks, I slipped into one of my typical funks.  Usually happens about the time it gets cold.  My good friend the grill is next to useless due to outside temps, seasonal fresh ingredients dry up and are replaced by bland, flown in imitations from countries with questionable food sanitation practices, and my usual small stack of dishes doubles in size.

It seems like blog posts come in spurts don't they?

We're well into...week 6? I think?  I dunno something like that.

The exercise has been taking a bit of a toll on me, I must say.  Sure, it's less than 2 miles of walking a day, and some light weights and crunches, but when you go to that from your most exertion being mowing your lawn or shoveling snow, well, its quite an adjustment.  I hope it gets better.  I'm sure it will.

So, I've been at this for a couple of weeks now. 

I have no idea what my starting weight was.  I have no idea what it is now.  Lower I hope.  I feel like it's lower.  I should probably buy a scale one of these days. 

For a fat guy I know a lot about nutrition.  My problem has always been not particularly what I eat, but that I don't particularly like to exercise, and I like to eat.  That and frequent relapses into McDonalds addictions...but I digress.  Here's a fun article from Micheal Pollan, a food writer who has written some very good books, including In Defense of Food, which is really the bible of what should be an effort to do w