Additional end of day 2: June 21, 2007
I ran across these concerning weight loss in my time I give for educating myself and have to post them:
Weight Loss Quotes
We never repent of having eaten too little.
Thomas Jefferson
If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner.
Henry Sambrooke Leigh
Skinny cooks can't be trusted.
American Saying
As I ramble through life, whatever be my goal, I will unfortunately always keep my eye upon the doughnut and not upon the whole.
Wendy Wasserstein
The rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live.
Socrates
Take twice as long to eat half as much.
Anonymous
Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.
Peter De Vries
Your body is the baggage you must carry through life. The more excess the baggage, the shorter the trip.
Arnold H. Glasgow
In eating, a third of the stomach should be filled with food, a third with drink and the rest left empty.
Talmud
One way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.
Cyril Connolly
More die in the United States of too much food than too little.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.
Samuel Johnson
And, I want to share a essay I wrote back in college (PHI 101)
Don Crews
PHI 101
What is the Relationship Between Philosophy and the Good Life? Why?
A consciously aided intellect of self-examination nurtures solid roots toward the good life; this prelude receives its origin from Socrates as written from Plato, which states, “An unexamined life is life not worth living”. These words from Socrates have isolated value to a person who is aware of how to approach this examination of life; and this is through the mechanics of Philosophy. This is the relationship between Philosophy and the good life.
In the truest sense of the acquisition of wisdom, a person who is able to provide a conscious partnership between, self-examination through consciously aided intellect and proper use of Philosophy, constructs pursuit of the good life. This state of consciousness has to have intellectual properties contained within the self-examination as well as within the practice of Philosophy. In other words, self-consciousness is the realization of self-examination and the intellectual property is consciously using Philosophy within the self-examination. Correct intellect and practice, makes the person half-dead—because this foundation leads to awareness of the separation of self and soul. Additionally, this foundation is why Philosophy and the good life are related.
However, just briefly explaining the reason why there is a relationship between Philosophy and the good life, doesn’t give it true meaning if one doesn’t briefly describe the importance of this relationship. The good life is not just related to our fleshly bodies or separation from mind and our bodies, but includes what may or may not await our deaths (like disconnection of body and soul). When properly and consciously using Philosophy to address self-examination, a person will realize the shortcomings of the body and how it affects the mind when confronting various stimuli within life. This self-recognition allows room for improved reasoning and logic. In addition, this will make the person more critical and/or analytical toward certain life environmental conditions. Moreover, the person has increased self-recognition in investigating the origin of existence and ask personal questions for its meaning. Though not exhaustive, these are a few attributes of why the relationship between Philosophy and the good life are important.
Donald D. Crews
PHI101
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Don Crews
PHI 101
Henry David Thoreau
What is the Relationship between Self and Wisdom?
Like methodically peeling an orange and exposing its interlining fruit; so should our eyes peer meticulously into our environment and its inhabitants to seek truth in its features. Likewise, let our sense of perception be untainted by slavery to one’s self and be open to breathe in the attributes of our immediate surroundings and one’s personal placement within it. The inhabitants within nature can be teachers to one’s self when the self is in recognition of the separation between one’s self–from the existence of certain virtues within the “Higher Law” , and the behavior of the inhabitants within society, and its governmental and/or business functions. This type of recognition of separation, brings self awareness to one’s self and contributes to our connection with nature (and its inhabitants), and provides the separation of the attributes of man and nature due to the freedom to evaluate the differences and similarities between them; this assists in the pursuit of wisdom due to learning about one’s self within the surrounding existence. This is how I perceive Thoreau and the relationship between the Self and Wisdom.
With Thoreau, simplicity seems to be the breading ground toward the acquisition of wisdom, and it appears that he believes that people who live a quite desperation to be within society lose the ability to pursue the acquisition of wisdom; however, Thoreau admits that one cannot disconnect from society without disgrace being associated with this disconnection. Additionally, this loss in the ability to pursue wisdom is due to the severe concentration on wanting to be, rather than looking inside the self for the truth and realizing within the self the self-separation as previously described. Thoreau had apparently read the writings of Plato, as he briefly mentions Plato within his essays. Within this in mind and when one correctly examines Thoreau, one can clearly see that Thoreau had expanded upon the philosophical statements of Socrates. The foundation for this expansion is in these statements by Socrates: “Knowing thyself”, and “An unexamined life is life not worth living”. Thoreau seemed to come to the same type conclusions only to expand upon the foundation of these conclusions.
It’s my belief, that in order to thoroughly appreciate Thoreau, one needs to look past Thoreau’s apparent arrogance, and examine his beliefs without any type of personal prejudice. For example, Thoreau’s remedy for quiet desperation to be is simplicity (and the means of wisdom) can be applied today within one’s self and the self’s associated existence, but maybe not in the context Thoreau had envisioned. Rather than focusing upon criticizing the literal meaning of Thoreau, maybe one’s self needs to expand on Thoreau’s beliefs as Thoreau did with Socrates—in our own pursuit of wisdom. I’m not saying to ignore Thoreau’s possible philosophical complications, but rather focus upon his individual conclusions and intellectually apply them to ourselves today. Focusing too much on the impracticality of Thoreau’s application for wisdom can be a hindrance to our acquisition of wisdom without including self-expansion of Thoreau’s application for wisdom. Thoreau’s beliefs can be applied today and to say they could not, a person could be missing the intellectual properties of Thoreau’s quest for wisdom.
Donald D. Crews
PHI101
Now really think hard on these, how does these essay's apply to weight training and dieting? Chillen-out with Philosophy and applying this to weight training and dieting to meet our goals.
You can be what you want to be, and you can do what it takes to get there. Its all about managing the head games with yourself that is important, and JUST DO IT! GO FOR IT, GET AFTER IT!
FF: Go dude, Your doing well on lowering your sugar, keep it up, and ROCK ON!
