Earlier parts begin here. PART SIX: MY BODY’S COUP D’ETAT. THE NEW RULES. Earlier I compared dieting, for the morbidly obese, to walking across the United States, but with the addition of a sadistic joker God — rather like Robert Heinlein’s book JOB: A Comedy of Manners, in which two innocent people are the target […]
Month: July 2016
WEIGHT-LOSS SURGERY AND TRANSFORMATION, CONTINUED
Part One here. PART TWO: THE FUCKING SCIENCE On May 2, 2016, the New York Times made a bit of a furor when it published an article called “After ‘The Biggest Loser,’ Their Bodies Fought to Regain the Weight.” The majority of contestants were gaining weight back – not surprising to most readers. What did […]
WEIGHT-LOSS SURGERY AND TRANSFORMATION: An Essay In Several Parts
In December 2014 I had weight-loss surgery. People have been curious — why do it? What does it entail? Couldn’t you just diet and exercise? Indeed, a certain number of my questioners have little idea what “weight-loss surgery” means (why should they) and assume I somehow had 130 pounds of fat surgically removed. (One asked […]
Brideshead — Revisited, Recalled, Rediscovered
Sometimes I type “jackal-haunted nights” or “Queenie was a blonde” into Google just to see what’ll come up. […]