although she wore her street shoes in the house , and although her appetite for high cruciferous , carotene and fiber rich meals was small because of all the white foods that she secretly wolfed down on the short ride home from the grocery or while hiding in the gloom of the laundry room , or , occasionally , even ate in the sanctuary of the bathroom , and although her four times a week five mile jog rarely covered more than two and was apt to be more a contemplative stroll , and even though she was more than thirty pounds overweight on a five foot two inch frame , and even though her cholesterol level stayed above three hundred despite all the thinking that she did about it and even though her blood pressure was 145/110 , dilly knew that her l.e .