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No Doubts

Thanks to daily weighing, I can now safely say without a doubt that eating and drinking too much and moving too little lead to weight gain. Yes, I know, D’UH. But there are still weeks when I’d like to “get away with it”- defy nature, as Donna said. Bizarrely, until I typed the words “defy [...]

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The Cost of Freedom

Why does it take me so long to get to the point of actually going beyond good intentions to good practice? Why does it take weeks to go from wanting to do the right thing to actually doing it? That’s the same question but it baffles me so much that I wanted to ask it [...]

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Move to Eat or Eat to Move

Thinking about the diet/non-diet thing again and how exercise reflects my frame of mind. When I have my diet head on, I exercise to eat.  I see my hour on the treadmill as earning calories.  I think that attitude comes largely from Weight Watchers which does encourage exercise as “earning Points”. But my non-diet head [...]

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