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Shop Until You Drop – Pounds That Is

April 27, 2004

Trim Trolley – Shop Until You Drop Thought you had no time to exercise? Think again. The British supermarket chain, Tesco, announced Tuesday that its newly designed shopping cart/exercise machine dubbed the “Trim Trolley” is ready for testing. This ingenious device can be set at varying levels of resistance making it harder to push hence [...]

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No Wonder We’re Fat Jumbo Snickers Serves 3

April 26, 2004
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Remember that Seinfeld episode where Elaine uses a knife and fork to eat her Snickers? Now I know why: I recently read the label. One jumbo Snicker’s Bar serves 3! Who knew? Luckily I just found Mike Master’s blog “Fulltime Vagabond” and he explains the deal with Snickers and dieting.

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Eating What You Want and Losing Weight

March 23, 2004

If you have a particular food craving, you should have that food. Not three other things to make the feeling go away, but that exact food. If you cannot have that exact food, then catalog it for later, and have something similar. For instance, if you want something crunchy and salty, is it the salt [...]

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Dieting: When Things Get In The Way

March 11, 2004

That pesky thing called life. It has a way of fouling up the best laid plans, doesn’t it? First you decide you’re going to start keeping your car cleaner, thinking, “I know, I’ll wash it every Saturday morning.” Great. You have a plan. Saturday comes along and someone calls inviting you to go golfing. “I [...]

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Why Exercise Takes so Long to Show Results

February 18, 2004

The greatest reason for starting, then stopping a new exercise program is the lack of tangible, immediate results. If we can’t see something happening, we aren’t happy. That’s why people are so enchanted with watching their weight drop on the scale. That they can say, “Look, Martha, I dropped five pounds!” Even when they start [...]

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How I Quit Smoking, The One-Day-at-a-Time Way

February 10, 2004

I quit smoking many years ago and the only way I could do it was by thinking ahead, not forever, not for a year or a month, or even a week, but one day at a time. Every day when I’d wake my first thoughts would be a decision for that day and that day [...]

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The Dry Cleaners Shrunk my Pants Again!

February 9, 2004

Shortly after Christmas I went to wear my favorite jeans – the green pair (I’m a redhead so I can wear green jeans if I want), and to my dismay I found they were suddenly too small! Now, how’d that happen? I’d owned them for a long time and washed them numerous times but my [...]

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New Diet Drug, Not Yet, But Someday, so Is That News?

February 9, 2004

I Hate News Reporting of Theory and Opinion In the time honored tradition of CNN’s reporting news that isn’t news, tonight I saw a report on the “promising” protein leptin being used to develop a new diet drug. As Dave Barry likes to say, I’m not making this up. The report said, “Unger says his [...]

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The Super Bowl of Eating

February 2, 2004

Super Bowl Sunday Second only to Thanksgiving Day, Super Bowl Sunday is the biggest eat fest of the entire year. It’s not about turkey and dressing but snacks, snacks, and more snacks. “Get your hot-n-spicy wings while you can for tomorrow we diet,” they cry. I’ll admit, I’m not a sports fan — don’t throw [...]

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Rule Based Living – How to Lose the Rules to Lose Weight

November 25, 2003

Loosen the Noose I read a lot – including diet, fitness, exercise, and weight related books and 9 times out of 10 I find myself disagreeing with the author. So often I read about how I “should” do this, and will never be allowed to eat that again. “Who says,” is what I think to [...]

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