{"id":390,"date":"2006-05-05T14:27:22","date_gmt":"2006-05-05T21:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/2006\/05\/05\/cutting-out-the-middle-man\/"},"modified":"2006-05-11T17:22:10","modified_gmt":"2006-05-12T00:22:10","slug":"cutting-out-the-middle-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/2006\/05\/05\/cutting-out-the-middle-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Cutting Out the Middle Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">I am completely and utterly incapable of self-restraint when it comes to snacking.\u00a0 If it&#8217;s there, I&#8217;ll keep consuming it until it&#8217;s not there any longer.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not a super good characteristic\u00a0when one&#8217;s trying to lose weight.\u00a0\u00a0Through the years, I&#8217;ve learned to cope with my debilitating weakness.\u00a0 The best method of coping is simply to not buy the food in the first place.\u00a0 This is not always possible though\u00a0as snacks seem to magically leap into my cart while I&#8217;m grocery shopping and insist on being taken home.\u00a0 I am helpless to resist.\u00a0 (&#8220;Whatever you say Mr. Hershey&#8217;s!&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Lately, my method of coping is to simply throw\u00a0perfectly good snacks away before I can finish them.\u00a0 (I know,\u00a0starving children, etc.\u00a0&#8211; I already feel bad about this practice, but I don&#8217;t have a choice people.\u00a0 I\u00a0don&#8217;t have a choice!)\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I had an ephiphany today:\u00a0 I suffer from a very efficient form of bulimia.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am completely and utterly incapable of self-restraint when it comes to snacking.\u00a0 If it&#8217;s there, I&#8217;ll keep consuming it until it&#8217;s not there any longer.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not a super good characteristic\u00a0when one&#8217;s trying to lose weight.\u00a0\u00a0Through the years, I&#8217;ve learned to cope with my debilitating weakness.\u00a0 The best method of coping is simply to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-salads-salads-more-salads"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}