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May.07.2013
Must they be called that? Geez. I plucked a package from the display rack and quickly slid my thumb over the words Girdle Top, while hunching my shoulders around the cardboard package. The g-word made me cringe. I couldn’t believe I’d gotten myself in this position. It brought back a vision of my...
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Apr.05.2013
We live in a culture of "right now." In fact, we often don't even value what is current but rather what is going to be "hot" in the next month, day, or hour. We are frequently so preoccupied with figuring out what is going to replace what we already have that we seldom value or enjoy...
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Mar.09.2013
Over the past fifty years, pretty much since I popped the tag on my first Hostess pastry, I've been clutching a cold steel bar as it digs into my upper thigh meat. And once the carny released the lever, that thing's been locked on with no hope of escaping.
I've been an unwitting passenger on the...
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Feb.21.2013
We all have quirks. Some of us obsess over little things, have insomnia, insecurities, addictions... nobody's perfect... we all have flaws... blah, blah, blah. Try going without sugar for a month and see what happens. Read your labels and be honest with yourself. I'm not big on sugar, I seem to do...
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Feb.12.2013
I cut down (way down, think really low bass down) on sugar 3 months ago. I went through all the holidays without a single candy cane, pumpkin pie, chocolate mousse, chocolate coins, etc. without batting an eye. Since the physical changes wrought have been so remarkable I decided to celebrate...
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Jan.29.2013
In case I haven't mentioned it, I'm fifty. Oh, I have mentioned it? How many times? Wow, sorry.
Anyway, after 18,417 days spent cruising down life's interstate, I can glance in the rear view mirror and see quite a few stretches where I wasn't exactly wearing a seat belt.
Safe sex analogy? I'm...
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Jan.22.2013
I've begun the NRA Diet today.
The premise is that if the amount of food you're eating now causes you to gain weight, then you should eat more food to lose weight.
I'm loving it. I have to count my calories and fat grams each day to ensure that I eat more than yesterday. ...
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Jan.01.2013
"Dad, you're not fat, you're just overweight."-Zoe, my seventeen-year-old daughter
January 1, 2013.
I slowly awakened, exhaling gratefully. My relief was palpable, and I mumbled a silent oath of gratitude that I hadn't actually attended a Styx concert in my backyard, naked on a blanket while...
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Dec.22.2012
So, it's time for me to go on a diet again, soon, this time of year.
Last year, I tried the paleolithic diet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleolithic_diet and the year before last it was Gandhi's diet. http://health.india.com/topics/mahatma-gandhi-diet/
What to try this year?
I asked a friend and...
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Sep.23.2012
I woke up this morning and, like so many other days, I hopped on the scale. I'm not really supposed to weight myself more than once a week, but when you are hovering at 59 lbs lost and waiting, waiting, WAITING to see the number go down by one more digit, you get a little...well...obsessed....
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