The Sensei-ble Diet

I don't really call it a diet. I won't ever diet. Instead, I really think of it as a way to change my eating habits.

Some of my friends are on the Atkin's diet. One gave me the South Beach Diet book, which I gave back a day later. I don't have time to plan these things out. Plus, I tend to do things different from the way someone tells me to, just to be rebellious.

Food has been a pleasure in my life. I don't really eat because I am hungry. Until two months ago, I ate because I enjoyed the taste of food...how it sat in my mouth and brought uninteruptable pleasure to my taste buds. I love the taste of a well-prepared prime rib that melts in the mouth like butter. I love the spices and cheesy goodness of good lasagna.

That was until I saw myself in the mirror with a developing double-chin. Then, even my most loose fitting suits were getting tight. My jeans were ready to burst. My waist was at an all-time girth of 50 inches.

I decided to experiment. It has been a success. The experiment was this: When making dinner, put as much food as I want on the plate. Then, grab a second plate. Put half of the food from the first plate on the second. Cover the second plate with foil and place it in the fridge for the next day.

There have been times I decided to eat the whole thing in one sitting. I did not consider this failure, but just letting myself do whatever I want. Because I did not see it as failure, I did not give up. Instead, I just did the two-plate practice next meal.

The next thing I did was that I make sure I eat breakfast every morning. It usually is a bowl of cereal, but could be fruit. Also, each morning, I take 500mg of vitamin C, 100mg of vitamin E, and I take Glucosamine Chondroitin for my arthritis.

I went from drinking 3-4 Cokes per day to 1 Coke in the morning. The rest of the day, I drink juice, milk, or water. LOTS of water. When I get a craving for caffeine, I drink water. Eating has now become an inconvenience...interrupting my enjoyments of life.

The benefits of the two-plate practice are:1. I only cook half as much as I used to...I don't need to cook every night...2. I spend half as much on groceries, 3. It is successfully droping inches and pounds from my body, 4. I don't have to read somebody's book to know how to do it.

In the last two months, I have lost over 25 pounds, and I am down to a 44 inch waist.

My goal is to get a 38 inch waist, weigh 185 pounds, then I will begin a weight training regimen to build muscle and get to 250...looking like Mr Olympia.

 

IF someone reads this and publishes it as a diet, I want 50% of the sales...not profits...sales income. If someone reads this and does it, tell me about your successes. I would love to hear about them.

A Problem with Racism

A problem with racism is that if it ever became completely unacceptable to judge someone on race, the judgemental person would find something else would find something else to exclude someone.

We can't include that person because:
He's a guy.
He's too old.
She's from New York.
She would be the only one with brown hair.
He went to West High School.
He's a Fundamental Baptist.
She's too fat.

Get the idea?

I have a good friend who married a lady from China. She has said that not only do many Asians look at other Asian cultures as inferior and judge based on it, in China, they judge based on what province and city you are from!

I submit this to you, we should not judge based on physical traits, but rather on past action and current attitude. You can judge character by what a person has done in the past. It is still possible to change, but if in the past, you were convicted of robbery and you still feel you did nothing wrong, you can fairly be judged, and people will not trust you.

Unfortunately, judgement based on categorizing a physical trait comes from identifying a common character trait of that physical trait. An example: You would judge that an overweight man would not want to exercise with you, but, Chris Farley was overweight, and he was a very physically active man. So judging him by his weight is unfair, but judging him on his party lifestyle was completely fair.

My experience of being a victim of racism:
I grew up ion Iowa. Although it is characterized as a hotbed of racism, that has not been the case since the late 60's. Of course, there are isolated examples everywhere. I had not exeperienced racism, as perp nor victim, despite having grown up in a predominantly black area. I did not suffer judgement based on color, but I received plenty based on my family's financial situation.

Anyway, I moved to Washington, DC in 1992. My wife and I went downtown to see the sights. While on the Metro train, I put my arm around her. The seats being back to back, I accidentally bumped the man behind us. The man said, "Hey! Watch it WHITE BOY!" I was stunned. This was my first exposure to anyone judging based on color.

It's incredible. In Waterloo, Iowa, people are judged based on character. In the hotbed of liberal thought, racism permeates EVERYTHING!

While I am on that, I hate the fact that Washington, DC is making so many laws to correct injustices that are prevalent here, and apply them to the entire nation! Unfortunately, many actions taken to justify wrongs here only make it a greater problem in areas where there was no problem. Here, maybe quotas are needed because of the racial attitudes. But, In Waterloo, Iowa, the quotas cause resentment because someone was singled out for a job based on a racial advantage.