did you miss me?

Here's a funny thing:  I have a Blog Block today.  

I went away again, to London, ON this time, by train. (I love trains.) I took a friend from there to Stratford (she drove) to see A Midsummer Night's Dream, and went back to spend the night so we could talk in the morning before I took the train home.  It sounds great and it was, but I'm still dragging and coughing with my endless cold so it was also tiring.  For two nights now I have gone to bed at 8:30 which is not a good idea because after 5  hours I am AWAKE.  So then I spend two or three hours doodling online before i can sleep again until time to swim.  Back-ass-wards.  I had no Wifi access in London and then I had no right-brain access at home so here I am, behind in my blogging.  

Did you miss me?  I did.  

what now?

People who write diet menus plans don't know much about food or else they are heartless. (Probably heartless.)  You read a recipe for a light chili dish and you are supposed to use 1/2  cup of kidney beans.  One half!  What are you going to do with the rest of the can? No suggestions and no mention of it in subsequent menus.  Or, you're making a low-calorie soup and you're told to stir in 1 tbsp. of tomato puree.  One tablespoon!  What do  you do with the rest of it?  Even a small can is 6 ounces.  Just about every recipe in a diet menu seems to exist in a vacuum.  There is no acknowledgement that one slice of dry toast leaves a whole loaf of bread just hanging there.  Okay, that's not hard. You can freeze it.  But the dibs and dabs of beans and puree and half-cans of this and that are harder to handle. No wonder people stick to diets for only three or four days.  The leftovers are too hard to cope with.

That's why I like the "Intermittent Diet."  You fast (well, not quite - cut your intake to 500 calories a day) for two days a week, say, Monday and Thursday,  and eat normally (whatever your normal is?) for five.  You can use leftover vegetables to make lo-cal vegetarian stir-frys or chilis and if a fast recipe calls for something you can't use all of, you have the next day or two to dispose of it. It's quite forgiving. 

And that's all I'm going to say about that.