Taking This Thing Seriously

Last night was class three in the series we are supposed to take, and it was an eye-opener for me. I'm taking this (like I take most everything...) very seriously; therefore I'm reading the books, checking out the online resources, going over the diet plans and everything - I feel like this is going to be serious surgery (at least for me), and I want to be on it.

Well, during last night's class, we were talking through the different diet limitations we would be under. We were in the middle of the "soft and moist" section (which is what you are to eat during weeks 3-7), when a guy raises his hand for a question.

"Can we have beef jerky?" is the question.

The instructor was a little dumbfounded; she blinked a few times before asking "Is this a test to see if I'm paying attention? You can start considering something like beef jerky after you are on an all-food diet, but even then you will have to introduce is slowly. We are talking about 'soft and moist' - neither of these things would be used to describe beef jerky."

The class continued along, and there were several other questions that were, basically, asking about things that are in bold face type in the booklets we were given. Are these people trying to be "good attitude" people, or can they not absorb what they read, or are they just not engaged in the process?

Unknowable to me...

-sd