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I stepped on the scale earlier this evening, and while it seems an odd thing to say in today's culture, I'm happy to say I finally almost fit on the scale. From a high of about 400lbs (about 4-5 years ago, measured via a loading dock scale), when I stopped paying attention to scales, down to about 370lbs. two years ago, and now down to 330-340lbs.
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teeka's cooking. Really. No, its not that she can't cook - she can, and better than I can too. The big change was that I stopped eating fast food or doing on minimalist "convenience food" cooking, and started doing actual cooking and eating better (and, more importantly, no longer eating a million calories a day in fast food).
The other good thing about it is that its a lifestyle change, which means that its an easily sustainable diet, and as long as I keep losing 20-30 pounds each year, I really don't have a problem with it. And, for those of you who are offering, I can't do the Atkins or any of the other high-protein diets. According to my urologist (yes, I have my own) they promote the formation of kidney stones, and after having 3 or four of those blown up and passing a couple, I don't mind not having had one in several years.
I do wish (in a meandering, stream-of-consciousness sort of transition), however, that the network hadn't eaten the pictures we took with an SEM of the last one. Kidney stones, if you've never seen one up close, are very nasty looking things. Since they accrete as small calcium/oxalate crystals, they are (on a microscopic level) all point and edges. Does it make me a geek if I work with people who also think putting a kidney stone you passed earlier that morning into a quarter-million-dollars-worth of scientific instrument just to see what it looks like is cool? Of course, then I had to explain to the urology people (the ones at Physicians Plus Urology on Park Street by Meriter hospital are all really great people) why my kidney stone was coated in gold, but they thought it was amusing and wished the pictures had come out too.
And I can attribute a lot of it to
teeka's cooking. Really. No, its not that she can't cook - she can, and better than I can too. The big change was that I stopped eating fast food or doing on minimalist "convenience food" cooking, and started doing actual cooking and eating better (and, more importantly, no longer eating a million calories a day in fast food). The other good thing about it is that its a lifestyle change, which means that its an easily sustainable diet, and as long as I keep losing 20-30 pounds each year, I really don't have a problem with it. And, for those of you who are offering, I can't do the Atkins or any of the other high-protein diets. According to my urologist (yes, I have my own) they promote the formation of kidney stones, and after having 3 or four of those blown up and passing a couple, I don't mind not having had one in several years.
I do wish (in a meandering, stream-of-consciousness sort of transition), however, that the network hadn't eaten the pictures we took with an SEM of the last one. Kidney stones, if you've never seen one up close, are very nasty looking things. Since they accrete as small calcium/oxalate crystals, they are (on a microscopic level) all point and edges. Does it make me a geek if I work with people who also think putting a kidney stone you passed earlier that morning into a quarter-million-dollars-worth of scientific instrument just to see what it looks like is cool? Of course, then I had to explain to the urology people (the ones at Physicians Plus Urology on Park Street by Meriter hospital are all really great people) why my kidney stone was coated in gold, but they thought it was amusing and wished the pictures had come out too.
