Plaidophile

Bad flash photography adds 15 pounds. Which makes me look 30 pounds overweight. Yes, I could stand to lose 10-15 pounds, but that doesn't make me a morbidly obese fatass on the verge of diabetes or a heart attack. My blood sugar and cholesterol levels are both well within normal parameters. I eat well. I walk a lot. I just have trouble losing weight. Calorie starvation isn't the answer (all that does is make your metabolism slower) and stupid fad diets aren't the answer either. What works well is less stress and more regular meals.

Hopefully I'll be getting a decent daily routine again, and I can actually stick to a decent three-meal-a-day regimen, and I'll definitely be getting 4 miles of biking or walking daily once I move to Oakland. Those are both much more useful than being told "don't eat so much" while simultaneously being offered a larger portion of crap.

Also, doing an hour of DDR a day for two years had very little effect on my weight. Most of the weight I lost in grad school was because I just plain wasn't eating, and that messed up my metabolism and as a result I've paid for it down the road.

My plan:

• Regular meals
• Less rushing
• More enjoying my food
• Not having weight loss as my driving factor in every single decision