John Y’s Musings from the Middle: Dieting

Report back from the dieting field.

Day 4 since adding generous helpings of Nutella Spread to the Boot Camp diet. I have so far gained 2 pounds—but my mood has been elevated allowing me to not care as much about the weight gain and friends have noticed I am more pleasant to be around and easy going (and they also noticed several small instances of a chocolate-like substance smeared around the corners of my mouth)

So far, so good.

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I hate that awful scary feeling…

I’m sure we all do.

When we are frantically looking and can’t find it.

And then we worry –for a brief moment—that it is gone.

All of it.

That someone else may have gotten to it already.

And that it is too late.

And they have finished off the last finger full…

… of Nutella.

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I have heard about edamame three times in five days– but had never heard of it before.

I told my daughter that it was time I learnws what it is—but that I wasn’t ready yet to say the word out loud.

But it is a cool sounding name for a trendy vegatable.

Which made me wonder: Is edamame popular all of a sudden mostly because it tastes good or because it’s fun to say?