In August 2011 my weight was down to 146. I wanted to find out how low I could go, so I joined losit.com and started keeping track of what I ate and how much I exercised. I chose loseit.com because I'd heard of it, but there are other sites MyFitnessPal, etc.
Using a database taught me that walnuts (my go-to snack) were a lot more fattening that almonds (my new go-to snack.) Also cheese, which I love, is more fattening than hummus for an afternoon pick me up. I like hummus, too, but I still eat cheese, maybe not so much.
Since I could only eat a limited amount of food, I decided I could to be picky. Very picky. Now, if something is not up to my gourmet standards, into the garbage it goes. Things I threw away: cookies with only one bite out of them, inferior chocolate candy, frozen pasta, mushy apples. In our land of plenty: throwing away food is no longer a sin it's a necessity, no matter what your mama told you.
Author Loraine Despres will give you short takes on love, life's little ironies, and the world as she moves through it, with detours including how to attract men and keep them happy. That's easy. Writing, that's harder. The writer's life, that one is the hardest of all.
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