Re: this article, you’re right. It’s yet another example of the modern American philosophy that we deserve to have whatever we crave (be it food, money, sex, or relationship-related) and the negative repercussions of our self-indulgence must elicit collective sympathy, and sometimes recompense, from those who 'allowed' our vices to be satiated. Punishing the (so-called) 'enablers' has become a cottage industry. Tort lawyers and leeches surely sprang from the same primordial slime (token remark for the evolutionists among us).
Reading about such imbecilic cases like the above tend to make those who are rigorously watching their nutrition intake even more furious than they might otherwise be (you didn’t say that in so many words, but I sensed it between the lines? :)
Thanks for asking about my conditioning progress.
Am biking between twelve and fifteen miles a night, and twenty or thirty a day on weekends (barring snow on the roads, in which case I use the fitness room at a nearby rec center). Rick doesn’t do biking with me, but he does go to the gym with me, and has learned to really enjoy that. He is starting to benefit, too. (BTW, have you seen the Citi Premiere Pass credit card commercial with the heavyset black man weighing himself in the gym? I won’t say anymore about it, except that it’s priceless! You’ll know it when you see it. :)
Am eating mostly complex carbs (mostly baked potatoes, carrot juice, dried beans and lentils) and proteins (lean chicken, cottage cheese), and fresh fruit (mostly grapefruit, oranges, and bananas), and fresh spinach. Am losing a little weight (which is not my goal), and am gaining muscle (which is).
The canal tour is in late May, and the New England race is in late June, so I hope to be at my personal best by then, for both.
Congratulations, again, on your excellent progress … maintain the momentum!
(psst ... this is the end of my post … so don’t scroll down … really … I mean it … no joke … you hear? …)
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~ joanie ..