I keep a list of potential blog topics that arise from my experience, and this morning, I’ve been trying to write about the difference between “rigid” and “rigorous,” which are two interpretations of the disciplines I try to follow to maintain my recovery from food addiction.

But I’ve stumbled out of the block three or four times, for the reason that it’s hard to talk about rigor when I’ve gained weight. [Update: After a couple of inquiries, I realized that I should have sketched the magnitude. I've gained about five pounds.]

One of the amusing conflicts in my make-up is that I abhor waste but that, as a food addict, I must limit my food intake at levels established by my nutritionist because I my internal governor for volume is hopelessly broken.

Early in my recovery, my drive for efficiency eroded my willingness to respect my food plan because, for example, I'd eat the piece of of carrot that wouldn't fit in my measuring cup instead of returning it to the fridge (what, one little piece?) or throwing it out.

Quite a bit of the journalism I practice these days plies the intersections among local, whole, and sustainable food, and I've added a menu to the right side of this page to highlight that.

Oh, and I wrote this post to highlight it, too.

It is a truism in newspaper journalism that no matter what the plan for tomorrow's paper is, it is undependable until ink actually hits paper. By that standard, basically nothing happened just now.

But, I just spent an hour being interviewed by the BBC show "Horizon," which I'm told is the equivalent of PBS's "Nova," a show I've been watching and admiring for 30 years.

My friend Rick Umali is a programmer with an interest in food, and one of the results is Eat Twitter, which attempts to track trends in food by aggregating the posts of foodies on Twitter. It's very new, but I checked it out and it has potential. Check it out.

I've toggled off the comment option because practically all of them are about Coach bags and Michael Kors garments, written by poor souls in China (according to Google Analytics, my second biggest audience!).

If you have something to share, send me an e-mail and I'll gladly post it — I'd love to have more conversation here than we do.

Please forgive the grubby appearance. Sometimes, I "come as I am" to Toastmasters, but I've decided not to do that any longer. But this time, grubby. Still, I wanted to share the sentiment.

As an author, reporter, blogger, and professional speaker, I've staked a lot on the value of public discourse. And that's why this little turd from Hershey Corp. is so offensive.

“It came down to a matter of the FDA believing that the chocolate syrup is a snack food, and that we believe it is more accurately categorized as a milk modifier, similar to products such as Ovaltine and Nesquik that have been fortified for decades,” Beckman said.

Perhaps it’s stating the obvious, but like just about everything else is capitalist America, money is at the center of our obesity crisis.

For the food industry, the issue is profit, of course. In such a thin-margin business, the only way to increase profit is to increase sales. No wonder they spend tens of billions on marketing annually.

But as a recovering food addict, I have an entirely different perspective on food and money, and that’s the untold thousands I spent to get my substances, completely disregarding prudence.

One of the communities I want to speak to works for wellness in corporate environments, and my story in Corporate Wellness reaches out to them. In it, I tell how EAP was one of the very first stops on my road to recovery from extreme obesity.