I Can’t Weight (One Man’s Diet)
I Can’t Weight (One Man’s Diet)
by: Gary E. Anderson
From the book Spider’s Big Catch
Gary E. Anderson
www.abciowa.com
Like many people, I’ve decided I need to take off a little weight from the holidaysâ€â€the holidays of six years ago. But I’ve never dieted before, so being a conscientious kinda guy, I logged into my favorite web browser for some advice.
I found 3,978,158,342 sites offering help with losing a few pounds. (In fact, I was so overwhelmed, I had to grab a sandwich before even tackling the search.) As a public service, I’ll try to encapsulate what I learned, although I may have gotten a little confused by some of the terminology.
Most of the sites spent considerable time talking about calories, so maybe we should start there. As far as I could make out, a calorie is defined as the amount of heat it takes to raise a gram of water from 58 degrees…
