People who lose weight and keep it off long-term find ways to strike a sane and healthy balance.
Several years ago my colleague, striking a similar note, lamented that liability concerns are taking the fun out of American public swimming holes and playgrounds, and endorsed the somewhat saner balance of risk and regulations he enjoys as a resident of the Netherlands.
A sane state involves some balance of appetite served and appetite curbed.
— to explain this phenomenon, it is that writing is work in which the balance necessary to a sane life of physical and symbolic work has been wrested right out of plumb, or proportion, and alcohol is (wrongly) believed to rebalance it.
When you are balanced you have the privilege to react in a sane and smart way to every situation.
A sane mind, therefore, is one "maintained in a continual round of the production and dissolution" — in, that is, a dynamic balance of connection and detachment, memory and forgetting, that holds out the possibility of change and transformation.
He was essentially a sane man.
"But Joe is a sane, rational man".
It's a sane response to a crazy world.
In a wild world, that is a sane response.
