The other day, before the start of yet another meeting at work, someone brought up Dr. Oz. One person said: “I always used to think that drinking skim milk was good for you, but Dr. Oz said you should drink 2%.” It was said as a revelation, a shock. I couldn’t help myself: “You know, [...]
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I am an idiot. I only have a slight edge over some other idiots in that I am open to discovering that I am an idiot, so that I might actually learn something new, or discover, sometimes to my horror, how something I thought I knew was so blindingly wrong. For the past month, I [...]
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I’d say I’m a bit unusual in that I spend a lot of time setting a lot of goals for myself. I do it weekly, in fact. Each week, I take a few minutes to reflect on the week that has passed and try to write down goals for the coming week in a little [...]
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Caribbean Sunrise, Christmas Day, 2011 Back from vacation, safe and sound despite a few mishaps, and a cold that I couldn’t shake for most of the trip. The good news is that having a cold in the Caribbean beats having one in the northeast US in winter – that’s for sure. While not eating, or getting some [...]
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Last Thanksgiving, after a year where I had ballooned up to about 238 pounds rather quickly, I recommitted to low carb yet again. Today, one year later, I am down to 205. That works out to 33 pounds in 1 year, or 0.63 pounds a week, an absolutely horrible number – if you’re in a [...]
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I use a program called WeightBot on my iPhone to track my weight. Being lazy and/or stupid, I didn’t know that I could produce these nifty yearly charts – it always showed the data month-by-month. They make a nice comparison between 2010 and 2011 – don’t they? Obviously, 2011 isn’t over yet, and Weightbot [...]
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Let’s say you’ve finally decided that you want to mend your ways and give up a sedentary life of wanton Scooter Pies and MaryJane abuse. You want to get healthy and take off all those extra pounds. Great – glad you’re here. Please note that the following is NOT for folks who’ve put on 5-10 [...]
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I have been losing weight as of late – and am wondering why. In particular, I’m wondering this because of my thinking about writing a book on the topic of weight loss. One thing I’d like to avoid is creating another me-too book that is more of the same. Diet books have been done to [...]
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Note: I tend not to do book reviews because I feel I’m awful at them – and I’d only bother to do a review of a book that I enjoyed and found to be of value. If you agree that this attempt is a hatchet job like I do, I ask you to check out [...]
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On January 3 of this year, I decided to track my personal weight loss on this blog in 10 lb increments. In February I lost my first 10 and went from 232 to 222. It’s August and today I’m 210. Why so long for that 2nd 10 lbs.? Life can really do a job on [...]
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