weight and spoken thinking

[miriam_e]

I was chatting with an old friend last night. She was concerned about her weight. She tends to have meat at every meal and eats a lot of sweets. She knows my views on sweets so I left that alone, but instead suggested she go easy on the meat, perhaps cutting back to once a week. She replied that she'd heard meat doesn't put on weight; starch does. I thought for a moment and asked her where were all the overweight vegetarians and skinny butchers then?

Interesting. I'd never really thought about it till I said it. Isn't it weird that you can hold information in your head but never connect it till it escapes your mouth. Often I can resolve a problem simply by talking to someone about it. The other person doesn't even need to really listen; just the act of explaining it seems to make new connections in the brain. We are such strange creatures.

Comments

[cranky--crocus.livejournal.com]

I suppose I'm lucky, then in getting my brain to formulate my speeches catering to the hope that another can understand! I don't need another person there. However, I am thrilled when someone else IS there, especially since I then get the same in return!

I'm sensitive and don't do quite as brilliantly with my blind spots pointed out online (text relationships can be painful for me), but if done so in a courteous way then I am well pleased. However given my entries are mainly personal affairs (I mainly keep my science off), I suppose it's a bit more personally painful to have a blind spot pointed out in the way in which someone runs her life rather than her science. Although there's a certain sting to the latter, as well, for those overly sensitive--especially to text statements!