Anne and I decided to take on the South Beach diet. She, because she eats too many carbs and me, because I drink too many carbs. Plus, my waistline has gotten distinctly tighter lately, and I am far too cheap to purchase new pants and get alterations.

What will this involve? Well, for the first two weeks, it’s almost no carbs. We’ll be avoiding going the all-red-meat route so as to avoid descending the evolutionary tree. (Although gnawing the opposing lawyer’s hand everytime s/he makes an objection in court would have the elements of both surprise and intimidation…) Therefore, we’ll keep our chicken and bean heavy diet going, continue using olive oil regularly, skip the pasta, pizza, chinese food which are our fallbacks, and make more forays into salmon (which Sam’s Club usually has at moderately good prices).

Also, should I have coffee with any of you, don’t add milk or sugar to it in front of me - I’m off milk and sugar for the first two weeks as well, and coffee tastes abysmal with Splenda in it. I’d hate to have a nervous breakdown watching someone drink coffee as it should be….

-j.