Whatever happened to the Conspicuous Consumer you may have wondered? He has not written for awhile. Those of you who are optimistic types may have hoped for the best, imagining the CC getting thinner, maximizing his health, flying away like a little bird leaving the nest. Unfortunately, you would be wrong. Silence, in this case, is not golden. When the Conspicuous Consumer is well..inconspicuous, a better bet is that something is being hidden or an undesirable behavior is going on. I am sorry to report that much of my hard earned progress gained earlier in the year, or rather lost, has been given up. If it were the Civil War you could say that battles occurred up and down Virginia and the South moved briefly into Maryland and Pennsylvania. Did it happen overnight? No, it was bite by bite. You could say, "no one was minding the store" or "the owner went away on holiday". The truth is not so black and white. In general, in the time I have been away I have continued to exercise, if somewhat sporadically. I have continued to eat healthy food, just too much of it. Sure there have been a few chinks in the armor, like recently when I made a pan of brownies "for my family" and bought half a gallon of Breyer's vanilla ice-cream and fudge sauce "for guests", all to be a good host now. And somehow it worked out that I was the main one eating this happy combination. And since there were leftovers, for several nights in a row I had to take care of those as well so there would be no waste. Maybe the results are black and white. Today when I stepped on the scales they said 218 lbs.
If you find this news sad and disappointing, I apologize. I feel embarrassed to report it. Worse, I feel my pants starting to tighten again. All I can do now is begin again and continue, in the words of my friend Gandhi, these experiments with truth.
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