On or about 11-20-05 02:24, George Pope did engage James Bradley

 GP> On (05 Dec 05) James Bradley wrote to Cindy Haglund...
 JB> The latest - which was closely followed by a new diet-book, wouldn't
 JB> you know it - is that a fatty snack, or an occasional boost of sugar
 JB> (Glucose/fructos/whatever) is just what the primal doctor ordered.

 GP> I figured this out long ago (without a PhD AND without a book
 GP> contract!)

 GP> If you deny yourself too much, eventually something HAS to give!

 GP> Better to let it out in a controlled way (a la pressure cooker steam
 GP> valve)

Do you ever wince when someone holds back a sneeze?

 GP> My philosophy is "Moderation in all things. . . INCLUDING
Moderation!"

If you say you'd try anything once, I'd call you a lier. 

 GP> (if you live a life of denial, you're going to have too much tendency
 GP> towards over-indulgence building up -- something's gonna give & at the
 GP> wrong time(cf. Murphy, the prick!)

"Son of a preacher man."

There's a reason a `normal' mind learns checksums. If I didn't learn that tenth
gear, on the steepest slope, onto a repository full of a winters worth of
gravelling - was going to hurt, I'd have done it every year. I had three broken
bones at once from a dare-devil stunt, where on the bed next to me, was a
fellow that had two broken legs.

As soon as he was out of hospital with one cast, he jumped on the same waggon,
went down the same hill, and broke the second leg. He was hospitalized longer
than me to make sure he wasn't going to bust his neck next.

Murphy holds a vital place in our lack of humility. Show him some respect! <-|O

 GP> Every now and again I allow myself to sit down & eat a half a pie (or a
 GP> half dozen yeast doughnuts, or. . . ) (but I end up teaching myself
 GP> stronger willpower by not allowing this to become too much of a habit,
 GP> but still allowing it sometimes (I tend to go through regroup &
 GP> restrengthen phases where I gotta go cold turkey to regain control of
 GP> my self & my appetites(eg. sweet teeth)

 GP> I got given a 12-pack of Atkin's Advantage meal replacement
 GP> drinks(choco) -- tasty little things (at $2.25 regular shelf price,
 GP> they'd BETTER be!) -- I just have to keep reminding myself they REPLACE
 GP> a meal, not ADD to it! (so no making a nice big dinner & washing it
 GP> down with the Advantage drink! *G*)

Try Ensure. Last week, 12 for $14 at a grocer's. Often it can be found for
under $18.

Heck, when mom made apple pie, dad and I would have one and a half gone before
supper. I can truly call you a light-weight! 

I'll still round out a meal with an ensure, and eat until I can taste the burps
through the night. Often, limiting the burps, in case the dribble starts to
come up again.

"Glass house"? I don't think so. Come next spring, God willing,
I'll fire up
the out-door coffee perk, and starve my way through a day eating raspberries,
then Nan-king Cherries, then apples off-the-hoof... It troubled even my doctor
last time, but if I have to push the body, I'll be sure to keep myself hungry,
and feed those sugars and amino acids whenever the stomach complains too much.

I had to be sedentary for a few years. By this time, my physical activities
were being gradually curtailed. (This can be construed as a "Glass
house.") My
diet started declining too, until I was concentrating on starches and proteins
- fats and cereals.

A bag of oranges, and a stalk of celery were being pushed to their nutritional
limits. Now that I have too many jobs on the go again, I was fortunate to find
a good Vietnamese noodle house. GREAT summer rolls too! This summer, after I
had pushed the carcass to exhaustion FAR too many times, I rounded up the
waggons, and dragged myself off for a BIG hot bowl of tendon to tripe soup.

If *that* don't fix your sore joints, see a physician.


 GP> Because I care,

Who cares?



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