Weight loss and cooking

I seem to have lost nearly a stone (depending on how you read the scales). Wow,

that's good. Though I feel sort of guilty because I hadn't yet started being really

good, I was still intending to do that, really soon now.

Perhaps the perfect sort of food is the good but not great, because boring food you feel you deserve a bit more of, and great food you think "Oh well, I can manage a bit more. When'll I want to do that again?"

Perhaps walking to town a lot helps, I don't know.

But thinking about it, I am now more likely to think "No, I couldn't" rather than "A bit more wouldn't hurt, it's only once" outside mealtimes. Which is probably the defining factor. Though my mealtimes are completely to pot, as I generally have a sandwich at work at about 11.30, and then not have time before $society and either grab takeaway, or cook something at midnight:30.

And having my own personal kitchen with a big fridge and freezer is good, because it's approaching trivial to produce reasonable sort of food...

Interestingly, I still think of myself as "can't cook" but that has moved on. Once "can't cook" was "could pick things up and eat them, but couldn't make a sandwich". Later, was "could heat things in microwave or oven, but couldn't make something". Now I can put together raw ingredients in a variety of ways, but still can't reliably (1) make it look good or (2) have a very wide repetoire of ideas.

Things I believe for no reason, Vol II, Chap I

1. The world is largely as we perceive and remember it.

Background

I was originally hoping to produce a decent list of basic axioms I seem to have accepted, and then say something optimistic like "I believe the great majority of reaosnable people should be able to agree with these statements." And perhaps, work down the list to see if everyone agreed. But I fell at the first, most fundamental one.

This one, in fact, often isn't true. A small but significant part of the time I am dreaming. But I always choose to believe it.

I considered saying something like 'I should act as if...' but: (1) 'Should' is a tricky concept. I don't think I have a moral imperative to believe this, I just think it makes sense to. (2) I realised that I did believe this whether it was reasonable to or not.

( Quibbles, reasons, and history with, for, and of the belief... )