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Food: Diets for the terminally .. busy.
Sat, 28 Jan 2006

I'm on the tubby side; I know it, but I don't really like it. Sure, not much of a problem now but someday I'm sure it will be and proving that we're not animals means thinking ahead once in awhile... damnit. Anyway, I've always preached that the best diet is one that a person can stick with fairly naturally, and than dieting alone really isn't the solution. Sure, most of us work where only unhealthy lunch options exist but the real problem is most of us plant the caboose in front of a cathrode ray tube for 2/3rds of every day. Jenny won't help, since you have to eat artificial food-like substances for the rest of your life -- that they oh so conveniantly sell, and that don't work when mixed with human food. Dr. B won't work, since they want to build a Jenny-like fake diet by re-engineering your eating habits. Sure, a few people can do that but as every study has shown.. diets do not work, especially for those of us with lactose conditions or other dietary constraints.

So whats a modern person to do?

Obviously, the answer is to eat like a normal person (for your ethnicity) should, and to get a bit of exercise now and again. Eating normal shouldn't be too too hard -- a few less chippies, and a bit more potatos. Exercise is very tough given how much we all work, and how we all commute everywhere. But it has to be done. I had a plan a year or so back and I think it started to work, but I managed to blow it.. so my immediate goal is to reinstate that plan, and stick more to it. The walking everywhere part I did quite well for a year or so, but blew it a month back.... so this time, no more exceptions!

Jeff's suburbanite plan:

Is that enough?

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Recipe: Impossible Cheeseburger Pie
Fri, 20 May 2005

Sometimes I'm feeling a little peckish for something in particular, be it pasta or steak or pizza or just a fine sandwhich (the very best of which - like a Club House - will be called sammiches. I also suggest avoiding dishes that refer to themselves as 'gourmet' since that really just means pretend to like it when you really don't). But for me, once in awhile I get this urge to return to basics -- to fill up on a meal that harkens back to youth -- like mom used to make. And when you're a kid you don't go for fancy or complicated but simple things like peas and potatos which for me means Impossible Pie (or sometimes what I call Gray Stew, but thats for another article.) Recipe and terrible pictures below.

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