Dear Editor, I appreciate Virginia Wood sharing her struggle with weight ["Enough Is Enough," Food, July 13]. I request she focus a few articles on how an epicurean can eat well in Austin on 1,500-2,000 calories per day.
Paul Silver
[Virginia B. Wood responds: Thanks for your kind words about the surgery article, but I honestly didn't share all that personal information because I was looking for a career change to writing about diets and fitness. I just wanted to be in control of my own story. The mainstream media is flooded with headlines screaming about the newest diets and fitness crazes regularly. The last thing in the world I want is to be sentenced to that beat. Sorry.]