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.)
Come visit my new primary blog
As you may have noticed, there hasn't been a whole hell of a lot of action on this blog in recent months. That's mainly because I've been spending more of my creative energies these days on other topics and in other places. This reflects my determination to integrate this healthy eating/weight management routine into the rest of my life, as opposed to continuing to make my whole world revolve around the health/food thing.
What this means for this here blog is that, at least for the time being, it's going to go dormant. I'll definitely be keeping it online, but more as an archive than an active blog.
If you'd like to keep following my little life (mis)adventures, I happily invite you to check out the blog that is now the "front door" to my website: The Duck's Nest. There you'll find me going on not only about food and health, but a wide variety of other things that amuse, interest, concern, and/or obsess me. Fun times!
November 10, 2008 at 07:46 PM in General commentary | Permalink | Comments (0)