Food

I can’t stop eating. I just can’t. I haven’t weighed myself, but since coming to law school I’d venture that I’ve gained about 15 or 20 pounds.

I’ve tried various tricks to get myself to stop, but none of them have worked.

Though I generally have an internal locus of control, I can’t help but notice that many of my fellow Americans have trouble putting down the ho-hos. So, I suspect that part of the trouble with my eating is cultural.

Several aspects of our culture, I think, are suspect: advertising, unfulfilling work and family lives, too much work, etc. But one is the one upon which I will latch tonight: too many food products. How could you possibly get tired of eating chips, for example, when there are 28 different kinds of chips at CVS, 40 at Giant, and 65 at whole foods? You couldn’t. So, my new plan for curtailing my eating is that I will never eat a new food product again as long as I live. R&D all you want, Kraft, but if you didn’t have it on the market and in my stomach by today, I’m not trying it.

I realize that it will probably take me about 30 years to get tired of all the foods that I have tried up until now, but hey, at least I’ll get tired eventually.

Now I have to go finish my Black Bean All Natural Tortilla Chips with All Natural Black Beans.

EDIT: Oh, except you, Coke.  Make a diet soda with a sweetener that won’t give me brain cancer and I’m all over that.