The birth of Girtherism

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51. There was a paper on this topic, I think either in JAMA or NEJM.

It seemed to indicate that this was an excellent idea.

I downloaded it a few months ago.

I had worked out a nice routine around it: I never ate lunch and instead went to the library each afternoon. I was losing weight, and I felt healthier.

Then I ended up working from home and blew my discipline.

Right now, I'm on Naproxen for pain, prescription strength, which requires to be taken with food, so I can't go there right now.

I actually did this sort of thing, unintentionally, in my first big weight loss when I was a kid; my poverty made it easier, one meal a day. I dropped about 30 pounds I'd gained during depression associated with my mother's death. I also bicycled about one or two hours a day, every day, and sometimes for eight hours on a weekend. I certainly miss the physical shape I was in. In those days I could bike from Hermosa Beach up to Santa Monica, fast, run an hour with some friends, bike home again and not even feel strained.

When I was first married, my wife and I did pretty much the same thing with respect to eating, one meal a day, calories counted, with an evening run on the beach in San Diego. Again we both controlled our weight very well.

Of course, now I'm an old man, in a lot of pain these last few weeks, but getting some PT.

Thanks for the reminder. I know that what you are doing works. I should definitely take your excellent advice.

I hate looking like that asshole Donald Trump.

Thanks again.