No real gentleman weighs more than 300 pounds.
–William Howard Taft
It’s been all over the news the last few days: William Howard Taft, our 27th president and later supreme court justice, struggled with his weight just like you and me, the lowly peons, do.
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
― Dwight D. Eisenhower
All the time I hear it: “Oh, so you’re doing ________.” Usually the blank is filled in with Atkins. Sometimes with Paleo. And when I answer, “Not exactly,” I then get questioned about how what I’m doing is different from one of the aforementioned diet plans.
So let me answer that question first and then try to elucidate the differences in some of these plans.
Just think of all those women on the Titanic who said, ‘No thank you’ to dessert that night. And for what?!
― Erma Bombeck
In a previous post, I mentioned seeing an old, sugar-addicted friend who had some snarky things to say about my dislike of sugar. That’s a common reaction from some people. Whether they label it “Atkins” or not, they treat what I’m doing as “a diet.”
I dislike this.
There are several reasons why.
This is your last chance to go over to awkwardfamilyphotos before I get into it. Run.
The best Doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet and Dr. Merryman.
–Jonathan Swift
Did you see the exciting news? Obesity is now a disease! O Happy Day! Our problems are solved.
Ask Me How It Happened 