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    Grinding and Grounded

    Hey, look! A Metaphor!

    I come to report that here in week 4 or 5 or whatever it is, I am down 5/17ths of a Schubert. Or, in non-mentally ill parlance, down five pounds. My fat jeans that I was barely wedging my carcass into have loosened and I can wear a couple of [...]

    The Tales of Two Schuberts

    I have made a grave error. Very grave! I have named my BODY FAT after my old fat bitchy cat, Schubert. I am trying to lose one Schubert (about 17 and a half pounds) because that’s what I gained as I lay in the bed, post surgery, eating post surgical mac-n-chee with pounds of post [...]

    The Unbearable Carbness of Breading

    Lydia is visiting her family’s hardscrabble no tech farm in Pennsylvania (detoxing from the luxurious cheeses of France, no doubt) so will not be back with us for a few more weeks. I am therefore posting a little early. LA LA!

    Hello, WW! According to my icons, I like cats and books and…boat building? being [...]

    Five Full Plates (of Fruit)

    The Random Number Generator has spoken, and it loves the Early Bird today. Not the Earliest bird. But pretty dern close. Bird 2, SillyMe, who said, in a comment that made me snork coffee out my nose, “I started the day with a doughnut. After that fail the rest of the day is automatically [...]

    Re-Innocenting the Diet

    These pre-challenge weeks, I find I am filled with The Vigorous Eaty. This trouble is compounded by my participation in endless rounds of a game I play when I am violently unhappy. Which I currently am. The game is called WHAT CAN I EAT NEXT? I invented it. It goes like this:

    1) Be hungry.
    2) [...]