Ahh, the power of self-deception! (How to lose weight)

You know how you suddenly can experience a moment of insight about yourself? It's as if you leave your body for a second and look down at yourself and see something, unfiltered, that you'd never noticed before. A reality that others -- but not you -- have noted long ago. Things like: Geez, I really have gotten negative. Or: Geez, my hair is really thinning out.

I had one yesterday, one of these flash of insights. Unfortunately. Or fortunately. I'm not sure which is true.

I was sitting at my com...