Yeah, it's rare that I don't end up throwing away the last little bit of bagged or boxed salads, or the last banana. Tomatoes, corn, and broccoli seem to last long enough for me to finish them.

I wish I could find a way to make vegetables non-disgusting. Without the addition of cheese, that is.

I prefer most vegetables uncooked. I think at least in part because the Midwest way of cooking most vegetables is to cook beyond the point where they've lost all texture.

My natural inclination is the carb. Bread, potato, noodle, whatever. I like fruits and vegetables, but getting enough protein is tough for me, mostly because I'm lazy, especially in the morning. And trying to convince S. that bacon is not really the healthiest protein has been tough.

But dining is a big source of enjoyment in my life, and doing all the point-calculating and management would turn it from a pleasure into an onerous chore.

This is my biggest problem with losing weight.

I'm just trying to get myself used to smaller portion sizes.

I've been making myself do this by taking leftovers pretty much every time I eat out (my monthly cheeseburger excepted - they done't travel so well or have much reuse potential), and not cleaning my plate when that's not feasible.

Further proof that Malki! lurks here (especially the mouseover text)?

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Okay, I've had two servings of fruit now and working on my second serving of veggies (nibbling on baby carrots).

I just did a rescue mission on the crisper bin and found a smallish bag of broccoli florets that wasn't enough for a meal but just right for a quick side. Sauteed that in olive oil and butter and salted it and it was tasty.

Years of WW have trained me to eat fairly well. I rarely cook meat at home, don't snack, don't really drink soda (although booze is still my vice), eat only high fiber/whole grain carbs, rarely eat processed foods, don't eat to overfullness and most dinners cooked at home are two veggie dishes. Even doing that and running (and strength training) I still gain weight. For men it's different but in my experience only calorie counting/WW works if I want to lose weight. If you just want to eat healthy? Mostly eat things where you can identify all the ingredients. Whole foods, not processed.

I need to have a big meeting with my boss about big project at 3. I have three meetings between now and then, and none of them are related. I am hideously unprepared, and have no time to talk to people to get prepared. Also, of course, my head hurts, and I'd rather be home sleeping or drawing. I don't have time to take lunch.

And people at IO9 are treating me like a spoiler whiner. Except, no. Their new design will put spoilers on the front page, and the editors have admitted they don't know how to address that.

So I hate the world. Also, APIs for applications I don't even know how to use written for languages I don't write.

I am very lucky in my metabolism and my weight 'set point' being low, so I've never done anything I would consider "being on a diet." But I have always tried to do the general things people are discussing here, partly because this is how I was raised - home-cooked food from simple ingredients is important for me culturally as much as healthfully. We don't keep soda in the house, and most of the sweet baked goods we eat are baked by me (so I, um, at least know there are 2 sticks of butter and 3 eggs in 'em - and no preservatives!); we usually use meat as a seasoning and not as a main ingredient. Enough vegetables is harder, especially in winter and with pretty picky kids, and the price. In season, we could happily eat a bag of fresh local carrots every night, they are sweet as candy. But also $4 a bag, so we get them once a week and eat them in one night. (My ability to grow my own carrots is pretty limited still.)

Their new design will put spoilers on the front page

What? Why? How so? Not that I use the front page very often, since I usually just follow the links from the Facebook feed, but still.