Mmmmm gluten and the New Yorker's epic fail
Last night I went looking for web forums for people on gluten-free diets to see how they handled them, particularly when traveling and when trying to do Weight Watchers (I'm sure I gained 10 lbs in London - I indulged in Fish and Chips quite a bit). The answer seemed to be that it's very hard when traveling, especially abroad (well, duh - I'm fairly sure I won't be able to keep it up in Budapest) and that Weight Watchers doesn't work with a gluten-free diet.
Here's fun fact #1 about going gluten-free for health problems: it's an all or nothing thing. If you eat ANY gluten once you've emptied your system, the problems comes completely back and you have to start all over again.
Here's fun fact #2: just about everyone on the forums I was reading said that they gained 10 - 20 lbs when they went gluten-free. My goal will be to stick to lean meats and veggies, and hopefully that will negate a big weight gain - but we'll see.
And here's a question for everyone - how do you feel about the New Yorker's cover illustration of Barack and Michelle Obama? My own feeling is that I get what they were trying to do - it's supposed to satirize the myths about them - but it's an epic fail. I think there have been too many interviews with average citizens who believe those myths, and thus it's not going to be received in the spirit intended by your average citizen. Perhaps after an Obama victory, when he would have proved himself against those myths, THEN it would have been clever to run the cover. But right now it's a sore sticking point, and the cover just emphasizes that in an unpleasant way.
Thoughts?
Here's fun fact #1 about going gluten-free for health problems: it's an all or nothing thing. If you eat ANY gluten once you've emptied your system, the problems comes completely back and you have to start all over again.
Here's fun fact #2: just about everyone on the forums I was reading said that they gained 10 - 20 lbs when they went gluten-free. My goal will be to stick to lean meats and veggies, and hopefully that will negate a big weight gain - but we'll see.
And here's a question for everyone - how do you feel about the New Yorker's cover illustration of Barack and Michelle Obama? My own feeling is that I get what they were trying to do - it's supposed to satirize the myths about them - but it's an epic fail. I think there have been too many interviews with average citizens who believe those myths, and thus it's not going to be received in the spirit intended by your average citizen. Perhaps after an Obama victory, when he would have proved himself against those myths, THEN it would have been clever to run the cover. But right now it's a sore sticking point, and the cover just emphasizes that in an unpleasant way.
Thoughts?