Absolute Truth Part II

I've been looking for a title of my new site/blog. I am going with blogger so I am somewhat limited in what is available, but it is also relatively easy to eliminate choices that way. I wanted something that was easy to remember and perhaps somewhat catchy (but not clever, because that would get annoying). My first choice was to go with the title absolute truth, but alas that site is taken by a now defunked blog that covered recent events a few years ago. I considered going with some sort of off shot of the title, but ended up giving it up in hopes of a better. While reading about satire I came across what I considered a really great idea, a modest proposal. For those of you that don't know A Modest Proposal was written by Jonathan Swift and deals with the future of the food industry and the poor eating people in the form of Soylent Green (it's made of people). I figured that a satirical essay on how people eat would fit right into my theme. Well it turns out that name is also taken by a blog that appears to never have been updated. Shucks, and I really liked that one too. Well I was hit by inspiration in the shower. I was trying to think of what sort of updates I would do and I came up with the diet of the day. I loved this idea because the diet of the day shows just what is wrong with the health industry. You can find hundreds if not thousands or hundreds of thousands of people who will tell you that they've tried everything and it doesn't work. But it does. Every diet will work (well kind of, but I am not going into that here). The problem is people either don't stick with their diet long enough, or don't follow it closely enough. If you've tried 20 diets in 5 years, then you are doing it wrong. A change in diet is not a short term solution. A change in diet should be a life long commitment. Dieting to lose those 5 extra pounds will only hurt you in the long run and shouldn't be a goal. Well both diet of the day and diet a day are taken. I still like the idea of diet of the day and think I will try and incorporate it into the blog some how.

Right now I am going with the name The Ergonomic Diet. It isn't my favorite but it is growing on me. If anyone has any suggestions feel free to let me know.

Absolute Truth

I read a lot of articles on the web regarding people's health and really it boggles me at how out of touch some people are. Every site I go to has the answer and has tons of examples of how whatever they are touting works and how everything else is crap. So here comes the conundrum: if all these things work and everything else doesn't what the hell is going on? Well as Lewis Black once put it while referring to our health, "We're all snowflakes". And this is true. What will kill me may save you and what makes me gain weight will make you lose weight (because I'm the loser in all these situations). The only time I seriously lost weight in my life was a time I didn't care about it at all. My first semester at college I had a diet that consisted mainly of cookies and energy drinks with some hamburgers and pizza in there for good measure. I always had to servings of dessert and I never paid much head to what was going in me. I lost roughly 30 lbs that semester. My big change was that I started working out nearly every day. I started training for an ultimate team. Days when I didn't have practice I still threw around, but didn't do much more then that. So what does this tell me. Well actually absolutely nothing. It tells me that when I ate shit (and lots of it) but burned a lot of energy I lost weight. Crazy. I've never been able to motivate myself to that same level of exercise but have come close. The problem is I can't maintain it and I wouldn't expect anyone else to either. What I've decided I am going to do with this information is try and start a new blog with a title similar to this post. I'll add an update about that when it happens (I'd like to prepare some content before I actually being publishing). Also I think this title deserves a poem, so I'll get to work on that as well.