Tag: weight loss
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Anchoring in Success: Interim Goals for Weight Loss, Nutrition, and Health
About the photo: Data, data, data! My body didn’t come with an owner’s manual but I am at last figuring out a few things, thanks to data gathering. Sometimes I happen upon a blog post written but never posted, or it is still in the queue from long ago. This one is from last September.…
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Damn You, Law of Attraction, Damn You
Be careful what you wish for, especially in how you frame your desire with words. Sometimes I think the Universe is sitting back, howling, slapping its all-powerful knee, and saying, “Hey, the Law of Attraction always works! You received exactly what you asked for!” One of the things I’d put on my list of intentions…
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A Natural Way to Lower Blood Pressure?
For the past 6 weeks, my blood pressure has been consistently in the 105/65 range. Earlier in the year, I’d been very pleased to see it often in the 115-125 over 70-75 range after intense focus on health and meditation. Occasionally it would dip lower. But 105? Consistently? That’s where it was when I was…
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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…
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Losing 20 Pounds in 30 Days: Part 1 — The Preview of my Detox Diet
What a difference a month can make! And what a difference years did not make. I lost 20 pounds in 30 days, kept it spiritual, kept it positive. The first picture you see here was taken at Thanksgiving 2010. I was working out 6 days a week–hard–and had been for 5 months with good results…