Why am I constantly eating?
 

I'll tell you why: Coz I'm off Atkins. I eat because I'm addicted! I keep telling myself that I'm going back on Atkins...but, I don't. I'm totally going to start-right after I finish this Chinese Pie.

What's a Chinese pie? :confused:

I think you can't stop eating because you have to read wierd turn of the last century English poetry. I'd be depressed, too, if I had to read "Dulce et Decorum Est." Why don't you switch your major to Spanish or Latin American Studies? That way you could be reading Naruda or Gabriel Garcia Marquez or Isabelle Allende.

Mexican and Latin American Cuisine is wonderful, too. You'd have to search out the specialty shops to get all the ingredients in the recipes given in "Like Water for Chocolate."

How did you ever make out with Houseman, BTW. and were my suggestions re "Dulce" any help?

Chinese pie is shepherd's pie only you use ground sirloin, not lamb.

And here I sit, eating a popsicle. Sigh. Yeah, I AM thinking of switching my major.

I made out with Housman ok. Still trying to come up with thesis statement for Dulce. ---man, I wish it was Dulce de leche! :yum:

Well, good luck. "Dulce" is one of the more depressing things I've ever read and much good it did the author dying to be able to write it first with authority.

It would take me a dozen Chinese pies to get through writing about THAT poem!

Yes, I eat comfort foods to excess. Anxiety, pressure, insecurity are the appetizers.

Bri - how did you find Atkins? My gf is currently doing it and has done really well, but I wonder what it teaches her long term?

Anyways, I eat out of comfort too or coz its there...like if I have chocolate in the house, I HAVE to eat it.

I run daily and gym 5 times a week....so I dont pay too much attention though, my problem is usually not eating enough.

Bri, you wanna go on a diet with me?

Hey, yeah! That's a great idea. What do you want to do? What kind?

I'm thinking that we ( and anyone else that wants in) should do whatever diet we feel ok with, but we have a thread where we post EVERYTHING we eat, and all of the excercise we get. EVERY DAY.

then we can update the thread with pounds or inches lost ( you don't have to tell us your weight, just how much you lost/gained)

thoughts?

J and I have both lost 20 lbs in the last 6 weeks.

I hesitate to mention, because you know, I mentioned it before and failed, and that was annoying and embarrassing.

So far it's Weight Watchers which gets it done for me, and I've admitted that I'm unable to do this on my own. It's expensive for what it is, but the savings in food actually make up for the weekly fees. Amazing what happens to the cash budget when there's no pizza coming out of it.

I just started a diet last Wednesday. I don't own a scale, so I'm not sure if I've lost any weight, but I feel like it.
Maybe we should start a diet thread (unless somebody has already done that). I would play along!

I would love this! I think it's a great idea. I need accountability--and UT congrats! And to you, Seakdivers. Ok--so, tomorrow we begin?

K. you start the thread

I would love to lose a few pounds, but the eve of a big move is not the time to try it. Good luck to everyone and I may join the weight loss thread once I've made it to my new home. :)

sorry, no crazy liars allowed in this one.



ew, was that too mean?