Fat Winter

They say bears fatten up before the winter. Humans fatten up during the winter. We need it to be warm and inviting outdoors before we can walk and run and kayak and garden and bike and rake and especially get into a bathing suit once in a while.

Desperate to lose weight, I just polished off a bag--not a whole one-- of tortilla chips and a jar -- not a whole one--of salsa. Granted, the chips were "all-natural" and made with "organic" blue corn, which might get me into Heaven but they still have the same amount of salt, fat and calories. 

I did this because I do not use heroin, hate hard liquor, can only handle one puff of marijuana per week and do not abuse prescription medications. So food is my drug, and today is a dreary enough day to require a drug, what with it being cold and dark in the middle of a sunless afternoon, and only March 1, which in Maine is like January in more habitable climes.

 If it's nicer where you are, be grateful and eat better.