Life on the plateau continues

I'm having another one of those hectic life periods--just add a community theatre project, an additional freelance gig, and some other random assorted volunteer commitments, and voila: schedule overload! But meanwhile, I continue to cruise along on the same weight plateau of 192 pounds I've been on for several weeks now. Given that a hectic schedule used to mean excuses to eat crazy while pulling all-nighters at the computer, I consider this plateau a raging success--it means I'm maintaining my food disciplines even when life gets crazy. Either that, or all this excess activity is wearing off any slight food excesses I might have committed. Either way, I call it good. (Though I'll be glad when I get to the end of this latest round of deadlines and can have myself a little vacation-at-home.)

Somewhere in there, I did also succeed in finishing The Omnivore's Dilemma, and while I do have a few criticisms of the book here and there, by and large it's really made a strong impression on me. I'm now on the library waiting list for Pollen's followup book, In Defense of Food: an Eater's Manifesto, in which he sets out his nutritional desideratum: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants," and then lays out all the obstacles to achieving that goal in American mainstream processed-food culture. I can't wait! (Although given the waiting list at the local library--last I checked, I was #72 in the queue!--it looks like waiting is what I'm doing.)