Second day of Weight Watchers, still hanging in. I realized that I could overcome my afternoon hunger problem by just treating my lunch as the first of a series of snacks--IOW, instead of having a filling meal, with, say, a bowl of soup or leftovers from dinner with a piece of fruit and some yogurt, I just eat the soup or leftovers and save the fruit and yogurt to have for snacks later. That way I have more than one afternoon snack and can sort of spread the food intake to keep the hunger pangs down.

It's weird. No matter how much or how little I eat, I get extremely hungry in the afternoon. Morning and evening it's easier to control my eating because it's more, "Yeah, kinda hungry," than "OMG must eat now food food food must have."

Oh, other discovery? Healthy Choice chicken and rice soup is GROSS. Bland but oddly metallic. Will not purchase again.

I had the same reaction to their chicken noodle. Blegh.

YES I CHANGED MY MIND. I'm the boss of this, that's my perogative.

grumble Learning curve, people, learning curve. And no one wrote procedures, so I'm making it up here.

Ooh. Did we go away for a few minutes?

I have issues with Healthy Choice's roast beef coldcuts. It just tastes weird.

Did we go away for a few minutes?

Yes. I was scared.

How could cold cuts be Healthier? I don't get it! Why would roast beef sliced at some Healthy Choice processing plant be healthier than something sliced at the deli counter?

(I may be extra suspicious because I've been reading Margaret Atwood's Oryx & Crake this week which is all about genetic modification of food getting Out of Control.)

Why would roast beef sliced at some Healthy Choice processing plant be healthier than something sliced at the deli counter?

Less salt! Less fat! Chemicals are healthier!!

Unrelatedly, I recently saw a local news story about, "Did you know that roast beef is lower in calories than tuna salad?!?!?!?" Dude. Are you kidding me with that?

Even more unrelatedly, I might kill someone at my 9:30 meeting tomorrow. Just a head's up if I'm not around.

So some folks at the Daily Kos have been critical of Obama recently. Here someone writes to Andrew Sullivan to explain (last paragraph is the best):

My take is that Kos and folks like him in the netroots, including myself, are what the militant feminists were for the women's movement. We're sick and tired of Republicans in general, this administration in particular, and what passes for liberalism in this country that we've got nothing but contempt for the 'battered-wife', mainstream Vichy Democrats the beltway press, in our view, glorifies. Because Obama has seemingly criticized the partisanship we crave we thus see him as attempting to align himself as a battered-wife, Vichycrat against those who have done the most to organize resistance to this evil, evil administration sitting in Washington. This makes us angry because we see it as both disrespectful and counterproductive.

But, I support Obama despite this because I understand political reality and I love what he represents - a transition away from white baby-boomers bickering over the cultural changes of the 60s and 70s towards a politics that is truly representative of the multi-cultural, polyglot, open society that America is today.

So, while I wish Obama would stand up and rip out Dick Cheney's heart in front the soulless one's family and proceed to eat it raw on live television, I'll just mutter under my breath, hope for the best, and love him for who he is. He's got my vote even if isn't going to douse the Bush's with gasoline and light them on fire. That's the netroots job anyway.

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Heh. That pretty much sums up my feelings about Obama.