Cooking in 1999

This is how I’d like to cook my meals. I especially like the way the computer keeps track of your nutritional needs. The video below is an ad from 1967, from Ford-Philco, showing what life would be like in 1999.
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Dreamin’ Morgan Freeman

Well, it looks like my efforts in reducing the amount I’m eating is working. I probably lost about a kilo this week.
Side effects include:

Banana cravings, which have now passed
Increasing focus on topics other than eating disorder recovery
Dreaming of Morgan Freeman

The last one was a bit of a surprise for me, I have to admit. But [...]

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Fat/Thin Fantasy

The fragrance of the blossoms drifts in the open door, the voile drapes moving softly in the breeze. There’s a soft light, seemingly coming out of nowhere.
She lies spreadeagled on the bed, uncovered, unclothed. No piece of skin touches another, her cheek rests on the crisp striped sheet covering the undulating waterbed. Breathe in, breathe [...]

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The banana diet, the enigmatic fruit

In my quest to reach the next level in moderate eating, including more weight loss, I craved bananas. So I put extra bananas on the grocery list, and ate a couple over the weekend. Then it seemed like a good idea to eat one with breakfast, and the next thing you know, I’m eating 2 [...]

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Jumping into the fire with both feet first

Sunday morning:
She looks at the scale impatiently.
“Why am I not losing weight faster? I want to. I’m eating less. I’m drinking my water. I’m exercising. “
“It’s simple,” says the rational voice inside her head. “A simple matter of complex physics, psychology and biology. You have to reduce your intake and increase your outgo so that [...]

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The cooling embers

She spent the rest of the morning in her passive-aggressive state, getting very little done. “Hah!” she thinks, “If they insist on doing things that aren’t rational, I’ll at least do them poorly.”
After lunch, she starts getting some work done. Boss-lady calls to apologize for the overload that came in during the weekend, and to [...]

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It’s Raining Men, the right way

After watching a mediocre showing of Deutschland Sucht den Superstar, the German equivalent of American Idol, I had to go find the original version of one song sung tonight, It’s Raining Men!”
Here you go:
Not only is it quite amusing, but it’s also a wonderful example of fat women doing their thing, and not being cowed [...]

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Farina Soup

Griesskloesschen Suppe is a fine German delicacy. Made from a delicate broth, refined by tiny bits of fresh vegetables, it’s a delight for the senses.
The crowning effect for the soup is the dumplings made from farina (semolina). A little egg, a little butter, and they mix up into teaspoon-sized bites of deliciousness.
Once the dumplings have [...]

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I am SO Angry!!!

Fat: What No One is Telling You is a PBS documentary, and I’m angry about it.
What really ticks me off is that they paid so little attention to behavioral change, and that they nearly ignored the consequences of WLS gone wrong.
They showed picture after picture, for example, of Carla and David Hurd exercising. They are [...]

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Book Meme

At least I think it’s called a meme. I’m still pretty new to this blog lingo. Here’s a quote from Wikipedia:
The term “meme” (IPA: /miːm/, rhyming with “theme”. Commonly pronounced in the US as /mɛm/, rhyming with “gem”), coined in 1976[1] by the biologist Richard Dawkins, refers to a “unit of cultural information” which [...]

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