{"id":348,"date":"2007-10-25T08:38:32","date_gmt":"2007-10-25T15:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegerber.wpengine.com\/?p=348"},"modified":"2007-10-25T08:38:32","modified_gmt":"2007-10-25T15:38:32","slug":"dumping-excess-gerberage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/?p=348","title":{"rendered":"Dumping Excess Gerberage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I officially started a diet.<\/p>\n

I’ve decided to combine two plans: the Carbo-Calorie diet, which fellow comics writer Gerry Conway recommended to me circa 1975 and on which I lost about 70 pounds back then, and the Shangri-La diet, of which I’m highly skeptical but willing to keep an open mind.<\/p>\n

The Shangri-La diet, described here in detail<\/a>, is basically a very weird method of appetite control.<\/p>\n

The Carbo-Calorie diet, formulated in the 1970s by an engineer named Donald S. Mart, is a method of counting caloric and carbohydrate intake *at the same time*, using only one unit of measure, the so-called “carbo-calorie”, which doesn’t exist in nature but is a purely mathematical construct. The diet assures that if you eat 100 “carbo-calories” a day, it’s impossible to exceed *both* 1200 calories and 60 grams of carbohydrate — although, on any given day, you could, theoretically, exceed one *or* the other. Over a period of days, weeks, and months, it all evens out.<\/p>\n

The weakness of the Carbo-Calorie diet is that it doesn’t take into account the glycemic index, which didn’t exist thirty years ago. The weakness of the Shangri-La diet is that it may be hooey, although its many adherents<\/a> don’t seem to think so. (The fact that it isn’t a franchise, isn’t associated with a product line, and doesn’t lend itself easily to the creation of one are, to my way of thinking, all factors in its favor. The same is true of the Carbo-Calorie diet, by the way.)<\/p>\n

I’ll post more details on the Carbo-Calorie Diet if anyone’s interested. The original book is long out of print, and it’s difficult to find information about the diet on the net.<\/p>\n

For me, the biggest obstacle to losing weight will be the inability to exercise. Even the simple act of bending over and straightening back up now leaves me panting for breath, so I won’t be hitting the gym or taking any long walks for awhile. (I cannot describe how infuriating this is.)<\/p>\n

Anyway, my starting weight is about 215. I’d like to be at 180 or less before I go under the bone saw. Wednesday will be my weekly weigh-in day. We’ll see what happens.<\/p>\n

For those of you who were completely bored by all of the above, let me just add that Killhead can be an extremely violent entity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I officially started a diet. I’ve decided to combine two plans: the Carbo-Calorie diet, which fellow comics writer Gerry Conway recommended to me circa 1975 and on which I lost about 70 pounds back then, and the Shangri-La diet, of which I’m highly skeptical but willing to keep an open mind. The Shangri-La diet, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}