Off Atkins

[avram]

OK, I’m off Atkins. For now. This run was a proof-of-concept, and with fourteen pounds lost in eleven days, without even exercising, I consider the concept pretty damn well proven.

Step 2: I find out how quickly it comes back when I go off.

December is a silly time to be trying to lose weight; I’m officially Not Worrying About It till 2004.

Fruit! Sweet Gaia, I can eat fruit again!

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[tnh.livejournal.com]

That organic grocery on University Place just a couple of blocks south of Union Square has pineapple-oranges. There's no pineapple in them; they just smell a little bit like it. Heavenly. They look like fat and slightly wrinkly little tangerines. They also have sweet limes there, which are rare, and exceedingly interesting if, like me, you're on a mission from God to sample all the kinds of citrus in the world and make marmalade out of most of them.

Actually, sweet limes -- along with pummelos and lavender gems -- are in the small class of citrus that doesn't make good marmalade. Something ammoniac in the peel. The juice is nice, though.

More than anything else, I miss fruit when I'm Atkinsing.

[avram]

I haven’t stopped in there in at least a couple of years. I’ll be in that area tomorrow, though.