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air force 1 — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 16:25:50 +0000

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By: Letta Page

Letta Page — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 15:57:45 +0000

I saw that he’s doing little videos about the experience. In the one I saw, he talked about how his first observation was that his work meant that he was away from his food for most of the day and couldn’t buy any more, so he went most of the day without eating until he got home. He needed to plan better on how to keep food with him and eat it during the day because he wasn’t letting himself take anything his staff offered or that might be on hand at the meetings, since it wasn’t “budgeted.” Second, he had to give up caffeine cold turkey. There wasn’t enough money for coffee or soda once he spent his money on food (he was, in the video, eating a giant, fresh salad, so he must have decided to spend higher amounts to get fresh foods and more food, rather than just going for high-calorie stuff).

One thing that struck me was that Booker himself appears to be a fairly big man – he’s likely to have higher caloric needs in a day (esp. if he’s running around saving Newark as seems to be his wont) than, say, I would. I’m sure SNAP and other programs don’t take that sort of thing into account, so you’d end up encouraged (if not required) to get less healthy, but more calorie-dense foods.

By: Joseph Crane

Joseph Crane — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 08:41:28 +0000

Wow, that’s…impressive. I wonder if he’ll end up cheating at all.

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