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Read more: Quote of the day: Easier to get fit than thin
Quote of the day: Easier to get fit than thin
1 comment on Quote of the day: Easier to get fit than thinNot that everyone has to want to be fit or can be fit, but for those who exercise and don’t lose weight, this might be helpful. [Deb Burgard, Ph.D. points out that] fat people who repeatedly try to lose weight are more likely to yo-yo diet, or weight-cycle, than they are to maintain weight loss permanently. And because weight-cycling has been linked to cardiac disease and other problems, overweight…
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Read more: Quotes: Gratitude
Quotes: Gratitude
“There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.” — Friedrich Nietzsche “Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.” — Henry Ward Beecher “No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.” — Alfred North Whitehead “Gratitude is the…
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Read more: Interesting – research on insomnia & depression
Interesting – research on insomnia & depression
I’ve written about depression and insomnia before. Also that I can induce depression symptoms by shorting myself on sleep. Now the NIMH is studying interactions between depression and insomnia. Doctors have long considered poor sleep to be a symptom of depression that would clear up with treatments, said Rachel Manber, a professor in the psychiatry and behavioral sciences department at Stanford, whose 2008 pilot trial of insomnia…
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Read more: Love Song for Internet Trolls
Love Song for Internet Trolls
From The Doubleclicks: It is snarky and silly and fun. I love you, even though you’re a commenter from hell the predictable way you don’t know how to spell and you’re hateful disgusting, ungrateful like you don’t understand, other people have feelings I feel like you don’t even know if you don’t enjoy a youtube video you can stop it. you don’t have to watch it. your…
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Read more: Sick
Sick
You know that stage of being sick where you feel fine, really, as long as you don’t actually try to DO a anything? Yeah. Tonight I tried to make pumpkin bread & forgot to put the pumpkin in. So it’s spice bread. Anyway. I guess it’s a good thing I didn’t try to drive or go to work today.
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Read more: Quote of the Day: Hunger, Food, and Self-acceptance
Quote of the Day: Hunger, Food, and Self-acceptance
[Discusses calorie counts, reference to dieting/WLS] I work with Michelle, The Fat Nutritionist, and she’s changed my entire life and my entire relationship with food. I was talking to her about hating myself for eating more often than I “should” […] She said my body requires more calories than I’m able to consume in one sitting . That my 350 pound body requires more calories to function than…
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Read more: Things that won’t necessarily prevent fatness
Things that won’t necessarily prevent fatness
Things that don’t necessarily prevent long-term child or adult obesity: Breast feeding Educating parents Weight bullying Banning junk food Banning whole milk Banning soda / pop Dieting Exercise Just something to think about.
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Read more: Things to Read
Things to Read
You may have seen this poor as folk post on why poor people might not eat healthy. There’s also a great post on why “healthy food vs junk food” infographics are inaccurate, misleading lies. From Linda Bacon and Lucy Aphramor at the the Health At Every Size® Blog: “Obesity-related” disease actually tracks your social status more than what size clothing you wear. In developed nations, data show,…
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Read more: AbFab
AbFab
I think I discovered Absolutely Fabulous at the right time for me – I was on my own and trying to disconnect from family dysfunction. The stone-faced Saffron politely telling her mother off became one of my icons of rationality. Well, why is today such a panic, anyway? It’s only a fashion show, and you’ve had six months to prepare it.[…] Greater feats have been achieved in…
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