The Alchemy of Alcohol

Secure that I was 179, I had a vodka martini at a Thai restaurant last night , where my wife and I ended up for dinner becuase we were to exhausted from work to cook. What'[s in a martini-- an ounce of vodka? When I awoke this morning, I was 4 pounds heavier-183!!!!
No, the scale isn't broken--it's better than the one in most doctors' offices. As for dinner, I had no rice, just Beef satay. I had eaten my normal breakfast, two hot dogs for lunch, a snack of nuts and fig newtons, as always. New was string cheese, taken for snacks-- I had eaten four sticks when I got home from work becuase I was famished. None of these things should have amounted in my gain. It had to be the booze!
This is the terrible part of low-carb--when you need a drink to relax, you are exploding a sugar bomb. I didn;t even Thai one on, so to speak. The drink was not strong enough to crate a buzz. It was more of a muscle relaxent. I whould have substiuted Ben Gay.
Now I must be riorous about the diet. It's too damn hot to ride the bike. I may try getting up at 6 a.m. tomorrow to beat the heat, the joggers, the "dieting and exercising" fat people dreaming of losing weight without giving up carbs.
You fellow boomers-- remember when the circus came to town and they charged you good money at the side show to see a fat lady, who was what, 400 pounds? I see that side show four or five times a day now for free. Why are we so much fatter now than then. The same rason there's more ADHD now than then. Back then, all the adults smoked. Nicotine supressed appetites and also acted on the brain like ritalin. We've exchanged one poison for another--nicotine and cancer for carbs and heart attacks.