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I've been experimenting with intermittent fasting. What I'm trying to do is not eat after 8 pm at night and then not again until noon the next day, except for once a week when I can do a refeed/free eating. I'm experimenting with doing a super light calorie day on Mondays, too. And, as usual, I try to avoid all flour and sugar and food not made of ( Read more... )

In September I did a 21 day challenge called "Eat Fit, Get Fat" that I'll let you google. It was successful enough that I'm trying it again, only slightly less restrictive. (On that one you avoid all beans, grains, sugar, alcohol and most fruit and a few vegetables ( Read more... )

I'm putting this here to leave myself some bread crumbs as I try to figure this whole "how to lose weight" thing out. It's shocking and depressing that I can be over 50, an intelligent woman, and not really know this. The state of medical science is so much worse than the common person thinks it is!

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I'm on the verge of going out and buying $200 worth of supplements to do a 21 day detox diet reset rapid weight loss thingy ( Read more... )

When I weigh myself naked in the morning I weigh .8 pounds over the limit to get a better rate on long term care insurance. The difference in classes costs about $500 a year until I die ( Read more... )

I made a great meal on Sunday. Since I invented it on the spot I think I will record it now so I can make it again sometime ( Read more... )

Andrew Wyeth is not one of my favorite painters.  He certainly had undeniable talent.  I understand his paintings, the whole of what he is trying to show (if I can be so bold as to say that.)  But here's the thing.  I don't like Christina's World.  Not any part of it.  Not the grinding poverty or the lack of direct sunlight or any part of the ( Read more... )

Small Boy has changed his lunch box a tiny bit now that he's in 8th grade and doing an after-school sport.  Here's what he's packing these days ( Read more... )

I've been musing a bit about the concept of hyper-palatability. It's a word that appears to have been coined by David Kessler to describe junk foods designed expressly for you to over-eat.  But I've been poking around at the concept as it relates to a capitalist society.  It's not just junk calories being foisted off on us to make a buck, it's also ( Read more... )