Thursday, January 11, 2007

appetite curbing 101

Last week I went to the doctor (read: nutritional therapist -- this is California afterall) and was prescribed some supplements for vitamin/mineral deficiencies. The supplements are supposed to be taken with meals.

I'm not sure if it has to do with the trouble of measuring out so many multivitamins, so many iron capsules, so many calcium pills, & etc., but since I went to the doctor I've been a lot less hungry.

Then add to that that after spending the money on the doctor's visit to be told I am missing healthy things, it just feels wrong to count coffee as breakfast and Doritos as lunch. So while I go to the trouble of measuring out so many multivitamins, so many iron capsules, so many calcium pills, & etc., I've also got to go to the further trouble of assuring myself that what I am counting as a "meal" is at least arguably heathful in itself (for the record, PB&J sandwiches are arguably healthful, especially if it's crunchy peanut butter).

It's exhausting.

All in all, I have learned that my tendency toward laziness is stronger than my tendency toward gluttony.

And I'm really starting to feel for the guy in Proverbs 26:
The lazy man buries his hand in the bowl;
It wearies him to bring it back to his mouth.


How sad is that.

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