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alexpgpThings started out pretty fast this morning at the store, and although the idea of going back to the house kept flitting through my mind throughout the day, by the time I was able to do so, it was almost 5 pm, and I was tired.
In an unusual fit of I-don't-know-what, I deleted Natara Bonsai and InfoSelect from my Zire 71 and my desktop, and discovered Plucker, a Free Software app for offline Web and e-book reading on PalmOS handhelds.
Today marks my second Tuesday in a row of fasting, which I freely admit I am doing to help lose some weight, but I am also curious to see whether I experience any inkling of the overall health benefits claimed for this one-day-a-week practice by a Russian gent I met while working at NASA before I returned to Colorado in 2001.
Last week, my weight dropped a few pounds as a result of my fast, which I frankly expected to make up, at least partially, in the intervening week. Although my weight did fluctuate up and down a pound or two in that time, this morning's weight was the same as at the conclusion of last week's fast.
One of the things I have noticed about myself lately is that I tend to bolt my food. (I have always had a tendency to eat quickly, a habit that was inculcated in the Marines and reinforced in various work environments.) Prior to my recent aching awareness of the need to eat less, my response to eating fast was to eat more.
However, a couple of times this past week, I found myself staring at what moments before I had deemed a reasonable portion of food and thinking "That wasn't satisfying at all." For the most part, I resisted the temptation to load up on a second helping.
I am reminded of snippets - particularly from the work of Solzhenitsyn - wherein he describes in exquisite trouble to which zeks would go to make the consumption of food last as long as possible. I should perhaps go find a passage or two and reread them.
Cheers...
In an unusual fit of I-don't-know-what, I deleted Natara Bonsai and InfoSelect from my Zire 71 and my desktop, and discovered Plucker, a Free Software app for offline Web and e-book reading on PalmOS handhelds.
Today marks my second Tuesday in a row of fasting, which I freely admit I am doing to help lose some weight, but I am also curious to see whether I experience any inkling of the overall health benefits claimed for this one-day-a-week practice by a Russian gent I met while working at NASA before I returned to Colorado in 2001.
Last week, my weight dropped a few pounds as a result of my fast, which I frankly expected to make up, at least partially, in the intervening week. Although my weight did fluctuate up and down a pound or two in that time, this morning's weight was the same as at the conclusion of last week's fast.
One of the things I have noticed about myself lately is that I tend to bolt my food. (I have always had a tendency to eat quickly, a habit that was inculcated in the Marines and reinforced in various work environments.) Prior to my recent aching awareness of the need to eat less, my response to eating fast was to eat more.
However, a couple of times this past week, I found myself staring at what moments before I had deemed a reasonable portion of food and thinking "That wasn't satisfying at all." For the most part, I resisted the temptation to load up on a second helping.
I am reminded of snippets - particularly from the work of Solzhenitsyn - wherein he describes in exquisite trouble to which zeks would go to make the consumption of food last as long as possible. I should perhaps go find a passage or two and reread them.
Cheers...
