Tag: losing 20 pounds
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How Can You Be Positive When Everyone Around You Is Negative? (A Lesson from the Biggest Loser)
How can you be positive when it seems there’s so much negativity and so many negative people around you? It all depends on your focus. Eleven seasons of The Biggest Loser had passed before I saw my first episode. I’d heard of it, here and there, from friends at work, but I’d never watched…
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Losing 20 Pounds in 30 Days: Part 6 — Why I Fired My Doctor
Continued from Losing 20 Pounds in 30 Days: Part 5 — Are Your Parents to Blame for Weight Gain? So why did I fire my doctor? First, my apologies for taking so long to come back to this blog to continue this series, but between the new job, tons of overtime, and bestest friend,…
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Losing 20 Pounds in 30 Days: Part 5 — Are Your Parents to Blame for Weight Gain?
Continued from Losing 20 Pounds in 30 Days: Part 4 — Going It Alone or With Support When we look back at where we came from and where our weight problems originated, are our parents to blame for our weight gain later in life? Are we to blame for our children’s weight gain in years…
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Losing 20 Pounds in 30 Days: Part 4 — Going It Alone or With Support
Continued fromLosing 20 Pounds in 30 days: Part 3 — Earliest Indicators of Weight Gain to Come: Diet & Exercise Add Weight Before I explain why I fired my family doctor right before I lost 20 pounds–and yes, your doctor works for YOU, in case you missed that–I’d like to touch on a couple of…
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Losing 20 Pounds in 30 Days: Part 3 — Earliest Indicators of Weight Gain to Come: Diet & Exercise Add Weight
Continued from Losing 20 Pounds in 30 Days: Part 2 — Earliest Indicators of Weight Gain to Come: Intense Hunger In the previous article, I talked about how I went through episodes of intense hunger, a side effect of a drop in my blood sugar that sent me into a food-focused ravenous mindset where getting…
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Losing 20 Pounds in 30 Days: Part 2 — Earliest Indicators of Weight Gain to Come: Intense Hunger
Continued from: Losing 20 Poundsin 30 Days: Part 1 — Overview of my Detox Diet That’s me in the picture. Maybe 21, if that. With the hat, gloves, and heels, I may have topped the scales at 105 pounds but it’s doubtful. I confess: football players in college used to ask me to walk on…