Here’s what I ate today:
Today’s food choices, from upper left: multivitamin and calcium supplements x2; roasted seasoned red potatoes; chicken taco filling; Trader Joe’s dark chocolate nibs; scrambled egg with a side of Rudy’s smoked ham; Rudy’s smoked beef tenderloin and pinto beans; honey barbecue chicken drumsticks. Not shown: Applegate Farms chicken breast slices and Goldfish crackers.
I decided this morning that I would track everything I ate and drank today so that I could avoid unplanned eating as much as possible. This worked until this afternoon, when my students were doing their population genetics lab in which we use Goldfish crackers and model the genetics of the population of crackers. We do this to study the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, a biological principle that basically says populations don’t evolve if certain conditions are in place for that population. It’s a mathematical modeling lab and the kids really dig it. I mean, they get to eat! And I do too, if I want to. Pre-surgery Me would have eaten a handful of crackers every class period, downing the equivalent to 6 servings of crackers. But I can’t do that now, and I don’t want to.
La Guerra de La Gorda 