Diet Update, November 2011

It just occurred to me that I haven’t written anything on my diet recently here. That’s because I’ve not been as great about following it, but I have been keeping carbohydrate intake relatively low, and as a result my weight has pretty much held steady for the last year, which is a victory itself.

When I do eat poorly too much sugar and too many refined foods, I feel depressed, tired, and sick. When I cut that stuff out, my mood improves and so does my energy level. Stress makes it more difficult to stay on the diet; awareness makes it easier. Too much awareness actually makes it more difficult.

I say this because the holier-than-thou, pseudo-religious, extremely arrogant attitude of people towards people who don’t share their food beliefs was a real incentive to fall off the wagon, and that goes for the low-carb crowd as much as it does the low-fat crowd.

Everyone is trying to find their way right now in the face of a polluted well of scientific data, and calling people who cook cupcakes drug pushers (for example) doesn’t help.

Anyway, so the plan now is to be on the diet and try not to worry a lot about the politics.