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June 21, 2006
No Bagels This Time
Our largest hospital is in contract negotiations again, and I am once again working on the internal organizing for the contract campaign. That means, in addition to mobilizing nurses, getting the food for meetings. I ran the contract campaign in 2003, and it was a very bad moment for my diet and health. Meetings with unlimited pizza and bagels with cream cheese helped me hit 131 pounds that summer.
Well, now I'm under 105 -- 102 on a good day -- and there's no way I'm going to eat a Dunkin Donuts bagel with cream cheese at the morning meetings. I used to be able to eat five over the course of a day... and some pizza on top of that! No wonder I felt horrible. Not enough protein, too many carbs, too much saturated fat, and too many poppy seeds sticking in my teeth. I remember buying size 8 suits, and I still looked pretty good, but I felt just awful.
Well now all the nurses I haven't seen in three years are coming to meetings. "You look fabulous!" they are saying. It makes me very happy. CR is not about weight loss, but when you're fighting the urge to go down the dark bagely path, a few compliments on your post-CR look don't hurt.
Posted by april at June 21, 2006 12:00 PM
Comments
There are lots of reasonably healthy things that can be provided for such "events", if only people would think beyond the usual donuts/bagels/muffins and other gak. Unlike MR, I am not totally against these things. However, like many other foods, they should be eaten in spartan moderation -- like maybe 1/2 a bagel once in a while. SO, what are you supplying for food? I am genuinely curious. If you run out of ideas (HA!), I have quite a few! JD :-)
Posted by: Judith at June 21, 2006 3:27 PM
So, maybe it's now time to create a philosophy for CR. For, I don't see any around any Cr'ed site. Maybe Cr'd people must declare that they want to live an uberlong life, then they must declare why they want to do that are they afraid of death or are they too much in love with life? Then, they should imagine themselves in old age. Like, really old age. What do they expect from that old age? If they want to stay as young as they are now forever, how can they so naively believe that that will happen with CR? Let me tell you one thing. I have never seen any 80 year old in a perfect condition. That will just not happen because the system needs people to die to function. The system feeds on death. I am very interested in seeing the living dead, but they ( the candidates) have a better bargain than CR I hear.
Posted by: istanbulwitch at June 23, 2006 9:27 PM