Fat food writer's blues

Posted by Ed Levine, November 30, 2005 at 1:37 PM

I admit it. I've gotten fat. I was a fat kid, and I got even fatter in college. Of course I tried the Atkins diet in college, and I did lose a lot of weight, but I also came down with what I believe is the only known case of scurvy in this country in the last fifty years because I stopped eating citrus fruits, as the late doc atkins instructed me to do, and I neglected to take the vitamin c he suggested.

After college I came to New York and worked in the music business. I succeeded in losing 65 pounds right after I got to Gotham, and I managed to keep it off until I started writing about food.

Now, thirty years after I took off all that weight, I find myself at a similar weight crossroads. I weigh even a little more than I weighed in college, and I hate myself for it. I tell myself it's impossible to be a food writer and lose weight, but that's bullshit.

So I am embarking on my own personal weight-loss program based on everything I've read in recent years.

I'm going to focus on eating lots of protein and vegetables and limit my carbohydrate intake. The carbs I'll eat will be whole grains and fruits like apples and pears. I will try to limit my fat intake to good fats like olive oil as much as possible, though I know I can't go off bacon cold turkey. Lastly, I am going to practice portion control and I am desperately going to try to avoid stupid, wasteful calories like potato chips and cheap, bad cookies, which don't even taste good.

Oh, yeah, I'm going to try to limit my peanut butter intake significantly. I can go through a jar in three days if I don't watch it.

I already play squash three times a week, and I am going to try to do something else two days a week, either swim or use an elliptical trainer.

I'm too embarrassed to tell all of you what I weigh now, but suffice to say I need to lose forty pounds minimum. I will keep all of you abreast of my progress every three days. I don't think I can deal with getting on the scale every day.

Sincerely,

Your fat food writer.

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