if you're going on a diet:

There's a blog I get linked to regularly through my GoogleReader feed on logically taking apart sex-shame and other bullshit, GretaChristina. A while back she took apart the attitudes that she and our culture have to food, fat, shame, exercise, health, the bias towards attractiveness, and the peculiar way in which shame leads us to deliberately undermine our health to prove how much we "don't care". The hyperlinks she presents all lead to science blogs with hard evidence because she, unlike me, is a non-hyperbole sort of person. I think anyone wanting to lose weight should take a similar examination of themselves to accurately gauge what the difficulties are and share in a sense of community with the work through the tips and tricks of others who have been on this path to rational eating and exercise habits.

I cannot recommend anything more highly for this subject. Part 1, Part 2, & Part 3.

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While I was at Tuesday Movie Night I ate some corn tortilla chips. I've been consuming tortilla chips pretty regularly on the gluten-free diet, having always checked ingredients on the back of the bag to make sure they weren't wheat-containing. I'd gotten pretty comfortable with corn chips. These were from a restaurant, and post-really-bad-Wednesday I'm pretty sure they weren't just corn. I was planning to do an intentional gluten challenge after my birthday, and I still might if I can't track down an answer on those chips. I mean, maybe it was a bad ... M&M? Contaminated piece of bell pepper? The hummus? Everything else I ate that night was pretty low-risk for intestinal weirdness.

ETA: Confirmed. On The Border tortilla chips contain gluten.

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