In part 3 of this God-Knows-What that I am chronicling, I wanted to briefly introduce the notion of ‘spaciousness’ that comes from the quieting of the mind that came with the meditation I began a few weeks ago, as well as the media diet that I’ve been on for a few weeks. I think it [...]
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Don’t have much time this morning, but I thought I’d share this: Cognitive Biases – A Visual Study Guide I wish that losing weight was just about what you eat. It isn’t. It is also about what you think. When you cave and give in to temptation, it was some thought that allowed you to [...]
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Since I don’t feature enough celebrities on my site, here’s one: Renee Zellweger – a celebrity, shops at Whole Foods and is not fat. Here’s an interesting one. To quote from the article: The percentage of food shoppers who are obese is almost 10 times higher at low-cost grocery stores compared with upscale markets, a [...]
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Here’s an interesting article on human evolution. In a nutshell, it says that Tibetans that live at 13,000 feet – an altitude where the oxygen level is so low as to make it impossible for people from lower elevations to function properly – evolved the capability to live at this altitude in about 3,000 years. [...]
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Set your chickens free! I don’t have anything against vegetarians and vegans. Whether they adhere to this way of life for health reasons, ethical reasons, or the perception that it benefits the environment, I respect their decision. They sure eat some strange stuff, though. I toyed with vegetarianism in the early 2000s and remember my [...]
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More ‘Research Gone Wild’ – where wacky researchers who apparently never talk to one another come out with more pronouncements to bewilder the public. First: we’re exercising more, but fatter that ever. Huh? 34.7 percent claimed in 2009 they engage in regular leisure physical activity, up from 31.9 percent in 2008. The prevalence of obesity [...]
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Oh. You mean that all those years they told me that dairy fat was going to kill me…they were wrong? Oops. Seriously, it’s just one study, but reading this sort of thing makes me wish researchers could just come out and say: Honestly, we don’t have a clue what’s good for you and not good [...]
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I’m not trying to dash anyones hopes here, or downplay how good it feels, after being really fat, to be thin. It feels great. It’s worth striving for – for so many reasons. But it will not bestow endless happiness upon you. I’m currently 60 lbs. down from my top weight and have been (more [...]
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I’ve been way busy with work – and my commitment to losing weight has suffered for it. I have long work-days filled with an extraordinary amount of details to remember – and often need to improv on what I know as meetings are called on a whim and I have to go in cold without [...]
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I love when I find articles that confirm my personal biases. No deep thinking or cognitive dissonance required, no need to try and refute the conclusions. Life is good. Anyway, a pair of articles came to my attention this week. The first, from Science News Daily, cites research on worms that concludes that excess sugar [...]
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