I just finished reading Mindless Eating. t warning:diet talk ahead

I really think it made more sense than anything I've read in ages when it comes to talking about food. It talks about all the different ways we eat more than we think we do. And this all leads up to the idea that we can't tell the difference if we eat 200 calories more or less than we usually do. And he has different sorts of strageties that can help you find how you can put this margin to use. But based on your personal eating habits. he says find 3 things that will improve you r eating - write them down and check off if you did them at the end of the day - the idea that it takes 28 days to form a habit. you won't be perfect, that's not really the point. He is not promiseing anything fast. 100 calories less a day is about 10 lbs over a year.( half a lb a month) If I could get down 20 to 30 lbs - This could mean less medication for me. I eat fairly well - and I have done really, really well when I was counting carbs - but I can't do that every day. So I figure that anything that improves my eating just a little means less counting.

Thanks for posting that, beth. I've been intrigued by that book. Nice to know it's worth checking out.

Calling in sick today. Am death warmed over. Stoopid common cold, how I hate thee.

I should start playing bridge online again.

But for the moment, I'm gaing back to bed.

Ohio's new governor was sworn in but what makes the headlines in the paper? OSU football.

I had forgotten that tonight was the championship game. *eyeroll* Ima have to strangle the first person I see wearing a buckeye necklace.

Ye gods, Cash, if I did that, I'd be strangling someone at 8:39 this morning.

I'm going to a low-key get-together tonight, but for the purposes of helping the hostess with constructing some artificial flower arrangements for a friend's upcoming wedding. My plan is to leave before it's over and not know the score the next morning.

Heh. You poor Columbus residents. I predict that, no matter who wins, there *will* be couches set on fire on the porches of student houses.

Cincinnati is definitely Go Buckeyes, but with much less rioting and burning of furniture. It's like, Yes, we're part of Ohio, but we don't have to destroy shit to prove it.

There was discussion on the radio this morning about measures to decrease the craziness. They've emptied dumpsters all over the city, and there's a parking ban today on five streets right near the heart of campus.

Why can't people just stay in their living rooms and drink? Pass out in your own space and don't endanger your neighbors, that's what I say...

Why can't people just stay in their living rooms and drink? Pass out in your own space and don't endanger your neighbors, that's what I say...

I recall at Ball State when we went to the NCAA tournament, kids spilling into the streets and having a blast. Without burning anything or destroying property. Or even running over school officials with a car. There may, however, have been some underage drinking. I think the most annoying thing to me is that every doofus who managed to get in one semester before dropping out (not to mention a BUNCH of thirty-something Midwestern males who never set foot on a college campus if it wasn't for a football game) seem to bleed scarlet & grey in this town.

I supose it doesn't help my mood that I'm sorely lacking in sleep today. Liv's still got some teething issues she's working out, and between that and DH and I both having trouble getting to sleep, topped by Owen rising at the ass crack of dawn and asking for macaroni & cheese for breakfast...

Let's just say there isn't enough coffee on the planet right now.

seem to bleed scarlet & grey in this town

A world of this. Today at work, it was declared to be a "scarlet and grey day"... the wording was "Meaning, employees are allowed to wear Scarlet and Gray for support of the Buckeyes big game, or business as usual."

So if you don't wear Buckeyes gear (which seems to include jeans for most everyone), you have to wear the normal business attire, rather than getting a dress-down day like everyone else. I almost wore orange and blue in protest, but I was worried that I would be fired. Plus my orange blouse was wrinkly.