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Ed Levine's Serious Diet, Week 121: What Is My Serious Diet, Anyway?
It turns out that my serious "diet" is actually an amalgam of all four definitions of "diet" on merriam-webster.com. "Diet" does relate to the food I regularly consume, to the kind of habitual nourishment I receive from, to the kind and amount of food I've prescribed myself to try to bring my weight under control. But it's in the derivation of the word, which dates back to the thirteenth century, that I found the true meaning of my serious diet.Ed Levine's Serious Diet, Week 120: Party Tactics and Strategies, Anyone?
At parties where seriously delicious things are being served I have a tendency to let my guard down. When my guard is down my self control mechanism can be temporarily disabled without me even realizing it. When that mechanism is temporarily disabled all my strategies and tactics I usually employ at parties to limit my caloric intake can be compromised. But if I was just really feeling good and enjoying myself for this one night, maybe those chicken wings and bellinis weren't empty calories?Ed Levine's Serious Diet, Week 118: Surviving the Jury Duty Lunch Break in Chinatown
My euphoria from last week's return to serious diet basics and subsequent three-pound weight loss was severely tested this week. Not only were there the umpteen post-Beards Award parties (not to mention the Beard reception dinner) at every serious restaurant in New York City you can name, but I also had to cope with walking around Manhattan's Chinatown at lunchtime during jury duty. What's a serious dieter to do? Either give up or fight like hell to maintain my discipline.Ed Levine's Serious Diet, Week 117: Getting Back to What Works for Me
I'll admit it, serious eaters. I was feeling discouraged after last week's Serious Diet post. Some of the comments upset me, though I know everyone was just trying to help. But what was even more upsetting was the upward direction of my weigh-ins. I felt bewildered,overwhelmed, even helpless. It wasn't until Sunday that I finally came to grips with what had been going on. Even more importantly, I figured out something very concrete that I could do about it. Where did I find such solace? In my very own words. Direct from last week's post.Ed Levine's Serious Diet, Week 115: Thursdays Are Cereal Nights (And That's OK)
I basically starve myself on Thursdays in preparation for my semi-public weigh-in on Fridays, and though the diet police may not approve, Food Deprivation Thursdays have overall worked for this serious dieter. So I'm willing to defy the diet gods and continue to eat very little on Thursdays. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.Ed Levine's Serious Diet, Week 109: Do I Eat Sensibly?
I can't pretend that I eat like everyone else, or anyone else for that matter. My meals this week may not sound sensible to other people, but they made perfect sense to me.Ed Levine's Serious Diet, Week 108: Eat Less, Weigh Less, Knee Hurts Less
I tried to get on the good foot, or should I say the good knee, this week on week 108 of my serious diet. The question of the day, or should I say the question for the rest of my life: Does "everything in moderation," combined with some form of exercise, equal a thinner me and less knee pain?Ed Levine's Serious Diet, Week 107: The Iowa Diet
Sticky bun from the Coffee Cup Cafe in Sully, Iowa. [Photographs: Ed Levine] I went back to my alma mater, Grinnell College, this past week to participate in a panel on the future of journalism. Food-wise I associate Grinnell, Iowa, with four things: pie, cinnamon buns, pork tenderloin sandwiches, and the Danish Maid Bakery's glazed doughnuts. Needless to say, none of them is good for my diet or my knee. But even though my knee was killing me the whole time I was there (below zero wind chill readings don't help an arthritic knee) I did manage to get in my fair share of the four main Iowa food groups. And maybe I didn't gain weight by doing so....Ed Levine's Serious Diet, Week 104: My Five Rules for an Eat-All-Day Diet
This week involved many of these. This past week I realized that simply "Saying No" (my apologies to Nancy Reagan) was not going to cut it on my serious diet; somehow, some way I was going to have to find a way to participate in the gustatory goings-on at SE World HQ and still lose weight (albeit slowly). Why? Because it's just too hard not to. Consider the following eating-oriented festivities that went on during the last seven days (including my birthday on Wednesday) at the office, a mere three feet from my desk: A pepperoni pizza taste test featuring the four big national pizza chains. A frozen pepperoni pizza taste test featuring five brands. A New York wings...Hot Topics: Technique of the Week | The Food Lab
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