You know, that's a strange word. I couldn't help but Google the etymology. Apparently, there isn't a Latin root. It's a genuine English word. It comes from the overhang of a roof on a house called an "eave." When rain falls from this and makes a line, it's called an "eavesdrop." An eavesdropper is someone who may stand behind this line, tucked up to the house, clandestinely listening to the goings-on inside. The verb "eavesdrop" was back formed from the -er noun.
Anyway...
I've been reading Eat to Live. I'm working on being healthy as a whole and eating for nutrition (as well as weight loss). It's going pretty well, though I do have the occasional slip up. While the cover of the book advertises weight loss, the idea behind Dr. Fuhrman's method is that if you focus on nutrients and get 90% of your calories from unprocessed fruits and vegetables, the weight will naturally come off. He's all about disease prevention. There's a lot of focus on preventing and reversing illnesses like cancer, diabetes and heart disease. For me, it's a little bit of preaching to the choir. But, I need some reinforcement because I'm not perfect and I definitely have some bad habits that could be reduced, or, better yet, eliminated. The book is dense and repetetive. I won't lie and say I'm having fun reading it, but I can tell it's helping to set me firmly on the right path, so I'm sticking with it.
What does any of this have to do with eavesdropping?
In the break room during lunch (while I was eating carrots and snap peas, reading this book and feeling smug) I over heard a coworker say this, "One of the things I really believe is that when I eat this Twix, if I eat an apple later, they cancel each other out." She was kind of joking. But her lunch was this: a Twix bar, corn chips and a Dr. Pepper. Other people at the table were eating Taco Bell, Sonic and microwave popcorn.
I may have slip ups (real fat kid slip ups sometimes), but it's moments like that that make me feel a little better about working at it and disciplining myself.
