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Oct.02.2012
Bess’ Story
I’ve known Bess since our college days at the University of Arizona in Tucson. I haven’t seen her in many years, but have kept in touch with her on Facebook. When Bess saw me posting my blog about my own weight loss journey, she was incredibly supportive. In my...
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Sep.12.2012
Any of you who read this blog with any regularity know that it is meant, in part, to chronicle my personal weight loss journey. But another big part of it for me is helping others to see what a terrible predicament we’ve gotten ourselves (and our children) into as a nation through bad...
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Sep.09.2012
My wife is suffering from some health issues so we want out for breakfast at lunch. No, it wasn't brunch. Yes, there's a difference.
While there, a heavy elderly man entered, followed by another woman, I assumed to be his wife. They carried that married couple aura. He looked like he was in...
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Sep.03.2012
I’ve known Suzanne a long time. Fifteen years to be exact. For most of those fifteen years, Suzanne was extremely overweight and I could tell that it affected how she felt about herself, which affected…well…everything. But Suzanne made a choice to get healthy and I am so happy...
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Aug.26.2012
In my last post, The Next 50 Lbs: 50 States of Overweight and How to Solve It, I shared some pretty grim statistics on the rising obesity rates in America. Today, I want to do a little walk down Memory Lane and have a look at the sad history of our S.A.D. (Standard American Diet) and...
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Aug.21.2012
The doctor will see you now,she tells my infected sinuses,my unchecked diabetes, mylower back in spasm. The doctorwill see...
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Aug.15.2012
Weight loss is, indeed, a journey. For anyone like me who needs to lose 100+ lbs total, it MUST be a marathon, not a sprint.
Ask any marathon runner to describe how they do it and I’m sure you’ll hear words like “perseverance”, “training”, “start slow”, “find tools that work”. In...
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Aug.11.2012
On Saturday morning he goes to the hospital for a chest X-ray because yesterday he told the doctor he’s worried he can’t breathe, and then the doctor got all worried, too, listening to him six ways from Sunday and finally sending in a technician to do some spirometrics.
It takes him longer to...
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Aug.08.2012
Men had it that they should be the one wearing the pants when involved in a relationship. Even before technological era took place, the notion that men are above women, already existed. Be it in work, marriage, and simple boyfriend-girlfriend relationship and especially in the family, males should...
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Aug.02.2012
I’m turning the big 50 this week, a milestone in a person’s existence, and more than likely the halfway point in a human beings life. Surprisingly to me, it seems pretty pleasant because I feel good, appear well, and am looking forward to the next 50 if I’m blessed to do so. I’ve become one who...
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