by OneMoreBite | Oct 28, 2006 | Weight Loss Tips
Slow Change Works
There are 365 days in a year. If you achieved your goals on 200 of them this year wouldn’t that be an improvement over last year?As you improve, your weight will come off. That’s the secret to lasting weight loss. People who’ve achieved their best weight and maintain it learned to stay on their plan more often than not. Eventually you won’t think of it as a plan at all but just how you prefer to be, and that’s true weight loss success.
by OneMoreBite | Oct 27, 2006 | Weight Loss Tips
If you expect to only want what is “good for you” you’re setting yourself up to fail. You’ll obviously want other things. Just today I wanted nuts, badly. So I ate nuts, plenty of nuts. Handfuls of nuts. Far more than I’d normally eat if I were in my natural state but this was a craving, and sometimes a craving needs to be satisfied.
I visited the nut jar several times during the day. So how do I feel now? Great. Satisfied. Excellent. I ate the nuts, I’m happy, not damaged, not ruined.
by OneMoreBite | Oct 17, 2006 | Dumb Things
The good folks at Coke-cola have dreamt up a doozy of a marketing idea: A drink that burns calories! Excellent. Ah, but wait …
Oops, small print. Here’s what they say about their new wonder product, “Studies have shown that when EGCG and caffeine are present at the levels comparable to that in three cans of Enviga, healthy subjects in the lean to normal weight range can experience an average increase in calorie burning by 60 – 100 calories.”
Okay, why do I have a problem with this? Note they say you have to drink three cans of Enviga? Yikes, and for what? A lously 60 to 100 calories added burn. Yipee. Then, they also mention how they used “healthy subjects in the lean to normal weight range,” not overweight subjects nor obese subjects but “healthy” and “lean” subjects? What gives with that?
Bethan Abra
Something isn’t quite right with this. Indeed, you can burn an extra 60 to 100 calories by getting up and moving around more, take a walk to the store or the post office, or jump on a bike now and then. If you have stairs in or near your home, walk up and down them several times. Voila! Instant increased calorie burn and it costs nothing.
Read about Coke’s new Enviga, a drink proven to increase calorie burn according to their press release.
by OneMoreBite | Aug 14, 2006 | Book Reviews
Naturally I wanted to get my hands on The Complete Far Side, a compilation of every cartoon published (and some non-published) during his entire career. I found the two hefty volumes at the library which is nice since the collection itself is a bit more for books than I usually spend. My librarian, Craig, nearly toppled over when he carried them to the checkout for me. That was my first clue something was amiss.
When I attempted to lift the books from the counter in the usual fashion, they were seemingly stuck to the counter; no, it was just they were heavy as hell-o. I took them home and tried to read them, really I did, but I like to read in bed and Volume I nearly crushed me to death. Volume II was no better. These are table books in the true sense of the word, but that’s when it struck me!
The Far Side Diet & Weight Loss Program: How It Works
How better to start a diet and stay motivated than a healthy dose of Far Side Cartoons and a workout hefting the volumes. You can begin simply by carrying the books from one room to the next. Rinse, repeat. Do this three times a day to build up your strength, and when you’re ready, venture outside and down the street, perhaps all the way to the end of the block. Slowly build up until you’re able to carry the books around like it’s no big deal.
You can hold one and slowly do bicep curls. Put them on your legs and do leg raises, and lie on the floor, putting a book (or two) on your pelvis and then lift, lower, lift, lower. Instant home gym in a book! It’s brilliant. Gary Larson, I tip my hat, and my broken pelvis to you. 😉
All kidding aside, these books are wonderful. Mostly color cartoons, which explains why the volumes weigh a ton.
Oh, yeah, I almost forget, the diet. Just take a healthy dose of laughter before each meal. Experts will say it’s a natural appetite suppressant (sooner, or later, I’m sure they will)
by OneMoreBite | Jul 23, 2006 | Gadgets
Really dumb product alert!
I saw this gadget at a thrift shop and had to have it. The picture sold me. Note how nice and crispy brown the fries appear? How exactly do they achieve that remarkable result in a microwave?
NewsChannel 11 in Lubbock Texas has a wonderful weekly feature called “Does it Work.” Apparently usually not. If I lived in Texas, that’d be my favorite show. You can read the reviews at their site, and luckily for you, dear reader, they reviewed the Fat-free French Fries Microwave French Fries Maker. Even the name is a bit suspect.
by OneMoreBite | Jul 21, 2006 | Rants
Here’s a way to lose weight; get ripped off by Capital One, then when you try to call and straightened it out you’re told, “That’s Capital One’s policy.”
I paid by balance in full and my statement showed a finance charge for purchases and cash which is odd since I did not have any cash transactions. I paid the balance in full anyway so it should not have been there.
According to Capital One you must pay your balance in full two business cycles in a row before you get the “benefit” of no finance charge. What that means though is you are going to be charged a finance fee for month one, the first time you pay your balance in full, then again for month two, then finally come month three, now they’ll give you the benefit of no fee. Anyone hear of this before? So when I wanted to know my account balance so I could pay the account off and close the sorry deal, I was told, “It changes daily because you’re still incurring finance charges.”
So, basically these ass-wipes are ripping me off and probably every single client out there so check your statements. If you’re being charged finance fees unfairly, call and cancel your business. There’s plenty of other companies out there more than happy to get your dollars.
No doubt I’m going to get a bill for a couple of dollars and each time I send that to pay it off I’ll get another one with a few more cents.
I suggest not doing business with Capital One if you want to keep your sanity, but if you’re like me and lose your appetite when you get upset, then it’s a great way to lose some weight this weekend
by OneMoreBite | Jul 5, 2006 | Drugs & Herbs
Next thing you know Hoodia will be added to milk. Sheesh. Ignore the hype. If you want to try an herbal supplement, try it as a “simple” first, meaning just that herb by itself. Here is an article about my thoughts and experiences with Hoodia and how it worked for me.
by OneMoreBite | Jun 21, 2006 | Rants
“Umm, so I stumbled on your site, and found you had written something on muscle weighing more than fat being a myth. To quote “As you can see, the 5 lbs. of fat is much bulkier than the 5 lbs. of muscle, but five pounds is still five pounds. Muscle does not weigh more than fat.”. When people say ‘muscle weighs more than fat’ they don’t mean that 5lbs of muscle weighs more than 5lbs of fat. That would just stupid. Look at the picture you have, the fat is much larger than the muscle. If the muscle was the same size as the fat, it would weigh more, understand? What you’re doing is the same as saying “hey, metal doesn’t weigh more than cotton! To prove it, I have this bucket full of metal, and nine buckets of cotton. Guess what, they weigh the same!” Seriously, I suggest you remove or revise that article to avoid looking like an idiot.”
Thanks for your insightful message. I think in second grade we were given the test: What weighs more: a pound of feathers or a pound of lead, and everyone said, “lead!” Most of learned than density counts.
The fact is, muscle does not weigh more than fat. Not now, not ever.
Muscle is denser than fat. Density is not the same as weight. The argument you make is that since people make an obvious mistake, that somehow makes it correct? Now who looks like an idiot?
Saying something incorrectly does not make it correct and muscle does not weigh more than fat. Not now, not ever. There’s no reason people can’t learn this simple concept. Density vs. weight. Just basic science really.
Then perhaps people will start to say, “If you have more muscle, you may weigh more than if you had more fat.”
A person who is 120 pounds but 20% fat will not weigh more than a person who is 120 pounds but 15% fat, right? No, of course not. So, why persist that muscle weighs more than fat? It does not. It is more dense, more compact.
Sorry, I’m standing fast. A pound of muscle does not weigh more than a pound of fat. If you want to talk density, there is a difference but that’s not what’s said when
someone says, “muscle weighs more than fat.”
Sheesh. And, really. It’s easier to read your messages if you put a paragraph break in now and then.
by OneMoreBite | May 23, 2006 | Rants
Here’s an easy way to remember. You lose something, your pants are loose. I mean, really now. That’s a big difference and were talking just a basic word, not rocket science. If you can’t seem to remember, use “lose” because how often are you talking about your pants anyway?
Lose has one O. You lose weight.
Loose has two Os. Your rings are loose, but they aren’t lose because that makes no sense. Phonetically loose is the “ew” sound, “Ew! They killed that rat right in the street!” Say it with me now, “L o o s e.” Loose rhymes with goose and moose and that’s about all I can think of right now.
Lose has one O. You only want to lose one O, and you end up with lose. Neat and tidy. I want to lose that extra O, so I say, “I want to lose weight without gaining it back.” What do you say? Can you just ditch that extra O?
Say it with me, “I lose weight.” Lose, lose, lose. It’s the “OU” sound, as in Lou’s. Oh, crap! There’s another way to spell it. English sucks sometimes.
Lose: lose weight
Loose: loose pants, loose rings, loose women
Lou’s: The guy upstairs who has a car that is always parked in your space. That is Lou’s car.
One O. Just limit yourself to one O from now on and you’ll save the world from the travesty of those seeking to “loose weight” forever more, and ignore Lou. Thank you Great Grammar God. Amen.
Grammarly says …
Why the Grammarly Blog has written a post on this exact subject called Loose vs Lose. Bravo Grammarly.
by OneMoreBite | May 22, 2006 | Dumb Things
I Bring You the Anti-Eating Face Mask!
In the words of Dave Barry, “I am not making this up.” Someone patented this device; a mask you wear on your face so you wont’ eat. Sheesh. Great plan. Probably the same team who thinks a chastity belt is a good idea. Why not just lock yourself in an empty room. That’d be effective too, and wouldn’t cost much. Hey, maybe someone should patent that?
The patent doesn’t mention what happens if you take the mask back off. Here’s a link to actual patent for the Anti-Eating Face Mask, if you’d like further details.
