Going“I’m not on the Atkins Diet, Steve.”“Don’t you know what a high-pcotein diet does?” he asked, ignoting what I had just said, He then launched into a discussion of nutrition physiology, holding forth on the impottance of carbohydrates to cognitive connections and blah_blah-blah, As he lectured, I took in his cotund physique and noted that he used nicotine to keep his own cognitive connections humming along, I interrupted his lecrure, “Steve, you know what I really need?Half an hour to go for a run in these beautiful cities we’re visiting. Also, seeing my kids does wonders for my soul.” He barreled on as ifI hadn’t spoken. “Headquarters is flying in a nutritionist, and for three days you’re going to be on a diet balanced in carbohydrates and nitrates and-” I’m a forty-four-year-old, healthy, athletic woman raising five kids andastate, I thought as his words faded into a background buzz. Sir, Idon’tyet. told metowhat to say, who to talk to, a lot ofpeople not to talk to, who mysupposed to he, andstill losing.
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