I’ve been attempting out the new Icon Diet, which is tailor-made to your private style and preferences. But first, I’ve to elucidate what an icon is. In Greek, the phrase icon means an illustration or image, however in English it both means a spiritual portray, or the image not of a specific particular person, place or occasion, however an image of the thought of a specific particular person, place or occasion.
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Since certainly one of the Ten Commandments, which Moses introduced down from the mountain, forbids the use of graven photographs, two thousand years later we don’t have any thought of what Joseph, Mary, Jesus, Judas, Peter or Paul, or John the Baptist, or any of them regarded like. Problem, as a result of folks need to know the way they regarded, even when it doesn’t actually matter, and never simply what they stated and did, or what the place regarded like the place they did it. We have the following resolution.
Solution, then paint an image not of Mother Mary holding Baby Jesus in her arms to point out what they regarded like, however paint an image of the thought of Mother Mary holding Baby Jesus in her arms, and put a hoop of yellow or gold over their heads to point these will not be folks of the flesh. In this manner we have now an image that represents the thought of holy folks, and never the holy folks themselves. Big eyes, as a result of they see the whole lot and small mouths, too, please, as a result of they don’t actually need to eat something.
It’s the identical with my Icon Diet. I get hungry in 20-minute swells, and I actually love a superb steak barbecued with KC Masterpiece barbecue sauce. So, if I suck and slowly lick a teaspoon stuffed with KC Masterpiece barbecue sauce, with out the steak, it places a stunning style and sting in my mouth, simply the thought of the steak with out the steak, that lasts about 20 minutes, simply getting me over the 20-minute starvation hump.
I like a grilled sizzling canine in a buttered, pan-fried, New England-style, sizzling canine bun with heaps of candy pickle relish and yellow mustard. So, in the identical method, a teaspoon stuffed with candy pickle relish topped off with a squirt of yellow mustard, simply the thought of the sizzling canine, with out the canine or the bun, will get me over the 20-minute starvation hump. That’s the Icon Diet, simply the thought of a meal with out the cumbersome, fattening half.
When I defined it to George, he needed to know “How’s it been working?”
“I’m still hanging in there around 220,” I stated, “but I’ve stopped gaining weight.”
George stated he thought he’d heard sufficient, so I made a decision to not inform him about sizzling pancakes with melted butter and maple syrup on the Icon Diet.
* not but submitted to or accredited by any physician of drugs or affiliation or board of medical practitioners, and possibly gained’t be.
Orrin Frink is a Kennebunkport resident. He may be reached at [email protected]
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