Atkins – As Dead as Bread
Since Glenn gets so much comment spam, he shut down comments on his posts and is using TrackBack only. Less fun for me, but better for him I’m sure. It’s a good way to keep me writing and interconnected instead of on some lonely "blog island." Anyway, he seems to think that the death of the Atkin’s company (or at least bankruptcy) is a good thing. I couldn’t agree more.
Not only was my former workplace infested with Atkin’s addicts, they couldn’t even stick with the plan. All this talk about Atkins, so quick to fall face first into that gigantic cheeseburger with bun. And that’s the real problem with Atkins – it works for a short while, but who can keep up that kind of diet more than a month? What kind of stupid-ass plan has you eat no bread? The foundation of our civilization as we know it?
I have the world’s easiest and permanent diet: eat pretty much what you want (excluding the fried food. Good god stay away from the fried food. Once in a while won’t hurt you, sure) and exercise your fat ass. I’m no model of health, but in the past few months I’ve lost 10 lbs. That is, when I’m not too hobbled by a permanent ankle inversion injury to exercise.
Let’s not forget all the rice bowls a certain someone on Atkins would eat all the time and while shoveling the rice into her mouth would say, “I know this has too many carbs.” Or something to that effect. Let’s hope it doesn’t get revived at least in your old office. For my sake.