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Regarding My Calories Aka Crap

How faithfully my calories I count. Believe me, I have counted them since age fifteen. Oh, the amount of food for decades I had! But after each new decade - CRAP! Metabolism slows down. Things get bad. I recalculate calories or exercise more. Otherwise, I fatten. THAT I deplore! Oct. 6, 2020 For John Lawless' The Crap Shoot #2 Poetry Contest

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John Watt

Date: 10/19/2020 8:26:00 PM

Happy to see this as a winner. So many of us can relate.

Sam Kauffman

Date: 10/16/2020 3:29:00 PM

Right with you standing at that infernal scale Andrea! Oh the delicious treats I have passed up and missed. Sigh. But I do "deplore" the alternative! Congratulations on your win. Really fun! Hope you are recovering from you fall. Let me know how you are doing. Sending prayers for healing.

Linda Alice Fowler

Date: 10/16/2020 5:58:00 AM

Ha! Cute Andrea. Congratulations on the win! Linda

Victor Buhagiar

Date: 10/6/2020 11:10:00 PM

Try the Keto diet. I never diet. I prefer to die fat. ~~

Andrea Dietrich
Date: 10/7/2020 10:54:00 AM

I have to have variety, Victor. Keto is actually good for preventing cancer though. I think it's similar to Atkins which I did for a few years. But Atkins only "maintained" me at a certain weight and I never dropped to a really slim size even eating mostly protein. I just was not meant to be a super slim girl. Unless I want to be starving all the time.

John Watt

Date: 10/6/2020 4:49:00 PM

Andrea, you really put the DIET in Dietrich! My COVID year has been a year of growth, if you know what I mean. Great write, I hope it's a winner ~ John

Andrea Dietrich
Date: 10/7/2020 10:56:00 AM

haha, a year of growth. I think I put on three pounds. Not horrible, but still it's disconcerting to me. My metabolism must be changing as I have not been eating any differently from before