Tag: diet
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The Leptin Reset: Week 6 Results – the Big Ass Breakfast Sweats It
Another big ass breakfast: Grilled salmon. This dish is about 10 ounces of salmon. Normally I grill 20-30 ounces of salmon at one time on my Foreman grill, then bag the other 1-2 portions for my next big ass breakfasts. This meal will typically “hold” me for 7-8 hours, with no hunger, no cravings, no…
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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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How National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) Is Like a Diet
My NaNoWriMo project–one that was loosely plotted ten years ago in NYC after a writer’s conference when I was on a roll. In fact, I loosely plotted a whole series with the same characters. Life has intruded, and many other books have been written meanwhile, but it’s time to jump back into the fun of…
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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…