Category: Health
Posts on health that meet the whole person — body, mind, emotional life, and the small disciplines that keep them in conversation with each other. Lived experience over prescriptive advice.
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The Leptin Reset: Week 3 Results, or Can Work Make You Fat?
(My apologies if you’ve been waiting for Week 3. I’m past Week 4 now but my computer is still in the shop, so I’m test-driving a Mac tonight.) After I nearly lost my focus on the Leptin Reset in Week 2, due entirely to an emotional stress, Week 3 smoothed out nicely. The bottom-line for…
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Anchoring in Success: Interim Goals for Weight Loss, Nutrition, and Health
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. My best friend and I are working together on a three-month health and fitness project. We have separate goals and separate ways of getting there–sometimes very different ways…
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The Leptin Reset: Week 2 Results, or Can a Broken Heart Make You Fat?
Picture to the left: Week 2 on the Leptin Reset (http://jackkruse.com/my-leptin-prescription/) and it’s failure, failure, failure. Nothing could lift this mood…except what started it. I ended Week 2 of the Leptin Reset, my health project for July and perhaps August, by gaining back 1 of the 2 pounds I’d lost in the first week. Truthfully,…
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The Leptin Reset: Week 1 Results
As usual, I’m experimenting with ways to improve my health. Over the next month or so, I’ll periodically cover my results from the Leptin Reset as described in Dr. Jack Kruse’s It’s my July Health Project, with an option for the August Health Project. If you’ve never heard of it, check it out at http://jackkruse.com/my-leptin-prescription/–he…
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The Power of Gluten: Why Gluten-Free Will NEVER be a Fad Diet to Me
Before I headed out in May to walk the Camino de Santiago in Spain as part of a spiritual pilgrimage, I had been off wheat gluten for close to a year, though I was noticing some weight gain in specific places after adding corn gluten to my diet about 3 times a week. Without wheat…
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Physical Healing, Woo-Woo Stuff
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Passion to the Third Degree. I’m feeling slightly better after spending some concentrated time visualizing in conjunction with my meds. Yes, I mix alternative medicine with classical. Blame that on my back injury in 1995 and the neurologist who told me I’d have to live with it because…
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Being Babied
Sheesh. This would be a useful week to have mush for brains and just watch TV. Unfortunately—and fortunately—I don’t have mush for brains. I’m mentally invigorated and have a million things I want to do. I just feel like crap, that’s all. And even worse, I’m feeling guilty for feeling sick. My colleagues don’t really…
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Jump or Be Pushed, More
Occasionally the Universe gives me little pushes and I don’t realize it. Sometimes the pushing starts rather suddenly and forces me to act quickly. Sometimes I refuse to see it until I’m at the cliff’s edge and the ground is giving way under me and I’m still refusing to see it. I’m better at that…
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Overwhelmed
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree and Rising. I’ve definitely been more emotional than usual this past week, though most people haven’t really observed it unless they’ve been following my journal. Maybe it’s because of the National news, which I’m mostly avoiding but it seeps through. Or maybe it’s all the people…
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Un-Short-Changing Myself for 28 Days
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree and Rising. I’ve often heard that it takes 28 days for a new habit to take effect or for you to really see the effects of a new habit. Since new moons are about beginnings and moons are 28-day cycles, I have developed 3 intentions for…
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Hospital Bottom Lines and the Docs and Patients Caught in the Middle
In what seems to be yet another example of being delayed in some small way that saved me a bigger inconvenience later, I was startled to read a doctor’s notice in the local paper tonight. I was saved from any inconvenience but a lot of other people just had a major disruption in their lives—most…
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Women Who Get What They Want
Sometimes it’s easy to see the Law of Attraction at work, especially when certain women get what they want. You can see them living the life, even before it manifests in the physical, and you can see how they draw it to them. Occasionally at my day job, I run into the ex-husband of a…
