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So maybe you came to ADBB and you were impressed by the before/after pictures here and you see a lot of people are doing really well, so you began reading here. All too soon you were put off by some people who seemed really stringent about this way of eating, and who seem tremulously unbending to the ways of anything other than following this way of eating with extrme prejudice.
Well, let me start by saying it's not just because we enjoy rapping your knuckles with our rulers (although, baby, we dig that action)
. I know that to the unwashed this board seems like a vast big spank in the ethos. “What are you doing?! Put down that bagel or I’ll smite thee down with mine evil eye of Sauron!”
So why are we so strict? I mean, come on! Why not just let people do their thing and be supportive? That’s why a support board is all about right?
Well, yes…and no.
You remember when Hamlet sent Ophelia to the nunnery? I know we all thought he was an uber schmuck in tights, but there was a method to it. As he stated, he was only “being cruel to be kind”. Sure, he might have sent a card instead and given her the "let's be friends" speech, but this isbn't the approach everyone gives when helping others. We all have different styled of helping others, and they don't always mesh with our own styles for receiving help.
Well, that’s what we’re all about here. Cruel kindness. And that almost sounds sexy if you think about it. Or not. Stick with me here.
The internet and America itself is awash in “do what feels good”. Even the Atkins company website looks like LL Bean vomited his latte mocha Frankenbar all over the site. It’s more important than ever that you have a place to come to where you know you are going to be given the best advice available based on the research, knowledge and experience of the people at ADBB. This is a vast array of people who know their stuff, who’ve lived, loved and made this way of eating their own success story.
We’re a society of people who make compromises. Compromise is great to some ends! It’s the American way!
Only look at where these compromises have brought us over the years with regards to our health We’re wearing bad polyesther slacks, and that youthful tattoo we once had of Pangea has spread with the years to show the real continental shelf drift as a testament to years of ice ages…or too many cherry Schleppies from OhmyHeavenEleven.
At ADBB we’re not here to suck the snot and joy out of your life. We’re here to give it back (well, not the snot--you know what I mean). And while we’re tough about this way of eating, we have to be. If we tell you to do your thing, it undoes any good thing we’ve ever tried to tell you to do prior to that or following that.
If we tell you that cheating on occasion is all right because eh, that’s life, we’re saying to the alcoholic that a drink on occasion is ok.
We’re telling the gambler to go ahead and place that one bet…just this time. It’ll be ok.
We’re telling the carb addict that old behavior will not beget more old behavior… just this once.
At ADBB have the grim responsibility of preaching this way of eating to you as though your life depended on it. Because it does. And we are here to see that you live to be a very old annoyed ADBB poster who thinks we’re still a little too too. Go ahead and hate us when you’re 90 years old and fit as a fiddle. We’ll gladly take the blame!
We’re here because we care about you. Eva Braun in the monacle and leather bustier we’re not, collectively. We give our time here as moderators, administrators and-- most importantly-- as members because we believe in something pretty wonderful here at ADBB when it comes to this way of eating. And we have Dr Atkins to thank for that.
If we try to adapt and change what makes this way of eating successful for better oomphies, ratings or feel-goodies, we’re wearing masks, and masks decay with time to show the true faces of lies, deceit and lack of responsibility. We can only advise, instruct, offer help, hope and happiness. You are still accountable to you in the end.
So when you feel like you are white-knuckling it and if you hear just one more person tell me to read that blasted book you’ll sound your Walt Whitman yawps across the northern hemisphere, please know that we are telling you what works, and we’re giving you the same advice we give to people we want to succeed.
You don’t have to follow the advice, but we sure hope you do.
You’re pretty special to us.
And we wouldn’t have that any other way.
Well, let me start by saying it's not just because we enjoy rapping your knuckles with our rulers (although, baby, we dig that action)
. I know that to the unwashed this board seems like a vast big spank in the ethos. “What are you doing?! Put down that bagel or I’ll smite thee down with mine evil eye of Sauron!” So why are we so strict? I mean, come on! Why not just let people do their thing and be supportive? That’s why a support board is all about right?
Well, yes…and no.
You remember when Hamlet sent Ophelia to the nunnery? I know we all thought he was an uber schmuck in tights, but there was a method to it. As he stated, he was only “being cruel to be kind”. Sure, he might have sent a card instead and given her the "let's be friends" speech, but this isbn't the approach everyone gives when helping others. We all have different styled of helping others, and they don't always mesh with our own styles for receiving help.
Well, that’s what we’re all about here. Cruel kindness. And that almost sounds sexy if you think about it. Or not. Stick with me here.
The internet and America itself is awash in “do what feels good”. Even the Atkins company website looks like LL Bean vomited his latte mocha Frankenbar all over the site. It’s more important than ever that you have a place to come to where you know you are going to be given the best advice available based on the research, knowledge and experience of the people at ADBB. This is a vast array of people who know their stuff, who’ve lived, loved and made this way of eating their own success story.
We’re a society of people who make compromises. Compromise is great to some ends! It’s the American way!
Only look at where these compromises have brought us over the years with regards to our health We’re wearing bad polyesther slacks, and that youthful tattoo we once had of Pangea has spread with the years to show the real continental shelf drift as a testament to years of ice ages…or too many cherry Schleppies from OhmyHeavenEleven.
At ADBB we’re not here to suck the snot and joy out of your life. We’re here to give it back (well, not the snot--you know what I mean). And while we’re tough about this way of eating, we have to be. If we tell you to do your thing, it undoes any good thing we’ve ever tried to tell you to do prior to that or following that.
If we tell you that cheating on occasion is all right because eh, that’s life, we’re saying to the alcoholic that a drink on occasion is ok.
We’re telling the gambler to go ahead and place that one bet…just this time. It’ll be ok.
We’re telling the carb addict that old behavior will not beget more old behavior… just this once.
At ADBB have the grim responsibility of preaching this way of eating to you as though your life depended on it. Because it does. And we are here to see that you live to be a very old annoyed ADBB poster who thinks we’re still a little too too. Go ahead and hate us when you’re 90 years old and fit as a fiddle. We’ll gladly take the blame!
We’re here because we care about you. Eva Braun in the monacle and leather bustier we’re not, collectively. We give our time here as moderators, administrators and-- most importantly-- as members because we believe in something pretty wonderful here at ADBB when it comes to this way of eating. And we have Dr Atkins to thank for that.
If we try to adapt and change what makes this way of eating successful for better oomphies, ratings or feel-goodies, we’re wearing masks, and masks decay with time to show the true faces of lies, deceit and lack of responsibility. We can only advise, instruct, offer help, hope and happiness. You are still accountable to you in the end.
So when you feel like you are white-knuckling it and if you hear just one more person tell me to read that blasted book you’ll sound your Walt Whitman yawps across the northern hemisphere, please know that we are telling you what works, and we’re giving you the same advice we give to people we want to succeed.
You don’t have to follow the advice, but we sure hope you do.
You’re pretty special to us.
And we wouldn’t have that any other way.
I'd better put on my other shoes.
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