Pavlina: Life is Not For the Living

A surefire way to increase traffic to your blog is to leave comments on other sites. At least, that’s what they say. It is a good method, actually. This is especially true if one leaves thoughtful and insightful comments or even comments that go against the original posters/bloggers thought stream. I got a few hits after I posted a comment on the Super Eco site for their bashing of natural ingredients. I also got a few just recently after posting a comment on the dining@large blog for the Baltimore Sun’s Dining section. I frequent this blog because….I really don’t know why. Sometime they have good articles about restaurants I’ll never go to….hmmmm. Anyway, thoughts for another day.

This particular posting was about Calorie restriction. Now, I am not even going to go there. I don’t really want to write an entire post on calorie restriction as I am sure Wikipedia has a good write up on it, so feel free to go and check it out. I always think I do a kind of twisted calorie restriction. What I mean by that is that I don’t eat constantly , I stop eating when full (not over stuffing), I naturally seem to stay away form high fat//salt foods (no Spam, or pig brains for me, also not a fan of Mayo), and McDonald’s hasn’t seen me in years. So, I wouldn’t even call it Calorie restriction, per se, even a twisted version, as I eat when I am hungry. I think the point here is that I eat when I am hungry. Period. Actually I’m grateful for this, and it was struggle for me to get here. I had a twisted past history with food, let us just leave it at that.

I don’t have anything against the people who practice calorie restriction, anymore so that I have something against those whole eat a bucket of chicken everyday. Hey, my life is too short for that. What I do not like (no surprise here) is people getting their knickers all in a twist about what other people are doing. I know myself to be guilty of it on occasion, I know, I know. So all the comments were just laying down layer after layer of vitriol. Things like, “does it make you live longer or does it just seem like it” (okay, that one is a bit funny), “Notice that no one interviewed is over 70? Where are all the really healthy 100 year olds that use this diet?”, Mental. Illness.” , “Deep fried crazy” and my favorite, “This is too ghastly for comment except to say that the woman in the picture’s head is about 3 times to large for her shoulders.”

Ugh.

Be nice.

Really.

So I wrote this: “That’s right, why don’t we all pile negativity on those who can restrict their eating? I don’t practice CR, but I also eat a lot less than the average American. The fact that I am well within the average BMI numbers is no accident. We could all use a bit less food if you ask me. Just look at the average size of people today! I think it’s disgraceful.”

That was a bit disgraceful, but I was fired up after plowing through all that negativity!

Then this is what someone replies to me: “Eating less than the average American is one thing (I’m fairly sure I eat less than the average Americain). Deliberately making yourself feel hungry is quite another thing. I’m not really sure what “life is not for the living” means.”

I didn’t know one had to “deliberately” make yourself hungry. I always thought that what happened after a finite amount of time has passed since your previous meal and your body is telling you it need more. “I’m not really sure what “life is not for the living” means.” Ah, the killer blow! Guy never even came here! Such sadness! If anyone needs to know Life is not for the living, this guy does. Oh, he sent the arrow through my heart! He didn’t go to the About section! Could it be? Do I have *gasp* poor website design!!!

So then I reply that back. Cause I got ‘no life.

Actually this is what I wrote:

“Name of Guy: I didn’t know one had to “deliberately” make yourself hungry. I always thought that what happened after a finite amount of time has passed since your previous meal and your body is telling you it need more.

Thank you for summing up in your comment replying back to me. If these people want to restrict what they eat, how does this hurt you or anyone else? Calling them crazy, or OCD is uncalled for. Offer your opinion, but try not to let it cross over into personal attacks. It’s bad etiquette.”

So, I’ve written both about Life is Not For the Living, and comment etiquette so this guy just clicked the link to my site, but didn’t even bother reading anything. Then went back to the original post and left me that little snide comment.

Nice.

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