1. Food eaten off someone else’s plate isn’t really your food so it has no calories.
2. Food eaten from a stick, doesn’t stick.
3. Food eaten in an airport has no calories.
4. Food eaten within 15 minutes of exercise. OK, 30 minutes. OK, the next meal you eat.
5. If you split a dessert, it has very few calories. Not none, but when you round down, it’s almost zero.
6. Food eaten on vacation doesn’t have any calories… until you get home. Then they show up.
7. Just one bite of anything: zero calories.
8. If you pick it with your own hands: no calories. Farmers market, that’s kinda like picking it with your own hands, right?
9. Anything eaten while you are floating doesn’t count. (Think: boat, inner tube, iceburg)
10. Every beer after your third is calorie free.
11. If it’s your birthday, food doesn’t have any calories for the whole day, which starts at midnight the day of and runs until you go to bed. Plan accordingly.
12. Anything you drink through a curly straw. Those calories just can’t make it around tight turns.
“Almost every American I know does trade large portions of his life for entertainment, hour by weeknight hour, binge by Saturday binge, Facebook check by Facebook check. I’m one of them. In the course of writing this I’ve watched all 13 episodes of House of Cards and who knows how many more West Wing episodes, and I’ve spent any number of blurred hours falling down internet rabbit holes. All instead of reading, or writing, or working, or spending real time with people I love.”
“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.”
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