Proof,

By the way you and Rob pick candidates, I would assume your diet plan consists of just keeping the refrigerator empty.

Oh, and then, Bill, take your maggot invested mind over to the Thompson on You Tube thread, where I totally demolished your last argument there!

Eventually you will fool your subconscious mind into believing…

Bill: Someone who wishes to remain anonymous suggested to me (though I wish I’d thought of it!) that the method you use to lose weight may be the same method you used to pick a presidential candidate?

Happy New Year!
(BTW, if you want to comment on Romney’s poll numbers, there’s a thread specifically for that here!)

Whistler,

If you want to lose weight and stay away from the goodies, do what I do:

Take any goodie you like, say custard-filled chocolate donuts. Then imagine that the custard filling comes from some truly disgusting source (blended maggot larvae, for instance).

Every time you are tempted by the custard filled donuts, repeat that image in your mind. Eventually you will fool your subconscious mind into believing that custard really is, in fact, blended maggot larvae, and it will stop sending signals to your brain to crave it.

Sounds disgusting, but it works.

In dieting successfully, it is not your conscious mind you need to control, but your subconscious. Through sheer willpower you will never diet successfully over the long hall. Successful dieting means changing behaviors and for that, you need the subconscious.

P.S., In the same way, you can train you mind to think of plain tuna on lettuce to be the most exquisite thing you have ever eaten.

People are dying to do that diet!

LOL, happy new year to everyone, I have to lose 10+ myself this year and I am going to be one ornery person.

Well Proof,

Let’s just see whose bug-filled donut wins this thing, eh?

I would say Thompson is a bug-filled donut, but based upon his campaign, the bugs might take offense.

Happy New Year, Whistler.

Oh, and here’s weight loss clue – eat less, move around more.

It’s a rule I intend to follow since I need to lose about ten pounds, too. I just reluctantly went up a size in jeans. I’m going to lose it. New Year’s resolution. Really. I’m gonna. Honest.

Sigh.

What the hell do you mean, do not disturb!?!? I just got home, to find several hundred emails to go through, both my news RSS feeds overflowing, all the cats indignant at our week long absence, AND I have to cook supper(picked up some excellent New York strips on the run in). Now THATS disturbing! Merry New Year, damnit.

Oh, and don’t sweat the 10 lbs. Plenty of time to lose weight in the grave.

Whistler: How’d you make out on the 10 lbs?
And if successful, will you publish the South Grand Forks Diet?

(Although I’m not sure, personally, how well a diet with the word “Forks” in it is going to sell!)

I just tried it out on a custard filled maple long-john.

It didn’t work.

That Tony Robbins stuff never worked for me.

Hmmm Maggot donuts!

I have to lose ten pounds by the end of the year

Well, Whistler, you know the old joke:

Want to lose ten pounds of ugly fat?
Cut off your head!

(I’m sure we can even find some nice jihadist willing to help!)