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Read more: Weight loss math isn’t as simple as they thought
Weight loss math isn’t as simple as they thought
8 comments on Weight loss math isn’t as simple as they thoughtThe Wall Street Journal wrote recently that research doesn’t actually support the notion that permanently increasing your food intake by a certain amount will correspond to indefinite weight gain. Instead, the body finds a new setpoint and adjusts itself. Consider the chocolate-chip-cookie fan who adds one 60-calorie cookie to his daily diet. By the old math, that cookie would add up to six pounds in a year,…
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Read more: Taxes as a metaphor
Taxes as a metaphor
So I was thinking about tax day. Not just income taxes, but “taxes” in the metaphorical sense. Erin at A Dress A Day once wrote, prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked “female”. A lot of people assume women will do whatever they need to to look pretty – like a tax. Society throws lots of expectations out there, and we absorb…
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Read more: Quote of the Day
Quote of the Day
From an Alternet article focusing on Linda Bacon’s book Health At Every Size, Jamie Oliver’s new show, and Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” campaign: [R]esearch shows that people of all sizes have similar diets, but it only manifests as weight gain in some of us. People today eat more calorie-dense, nutrient-poor convenience foods than Americans did in the past. How we eat also plays a role, as eating while…
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Read more: Music Monday
Music Monday
Heading back to work. Went grocery shopping yesterday with an idea of breaking up my “lunch rut” a bit, so I have fresh fruit and veggies to jazz things up a bit. Anyway, here’s the music I’m listening to to psych myself up for work ;) Ever hear This Train Is Bound For Glory? Well…I prefer Land of Hope and Dreams, which is a bit more…
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Read more: Sleep Eating and Fat Dissolvers
Sleep Eating and Fat Dissolvers
On the one hand, I think it’s great that more sleep research is going on and that it’s possible to treat those who become violent in their sleep or who sleepwalk (or drive). Busting myths can definitely be a good thing (“violence during the night does not signify lurking aggression.”) Communicating that yes, some people do eat during their sleep, and it doesn’t necessarily signal a daytime…
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Read more: Virtual Window Shopping: New at Making it Big
Virtual Window Shopping: New at Making it Big
[Virtual Window Shopping is looking at supersize / extended size clothing that I think is nifty. Preferably modeled by fat people.] In the last few years I’ve been acquiring more tie-dye shirts. I think it’s partly that they tend to be a subtly variegated pattern, and I prefer the subtle patterns (at least in everyday life – for workouts I’m tempted by things like this in orange and…
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Read more: Music Monday
Music Monday
…I spent the weekend running around a fan convention.* Today is my “recuperation” day before I return to work. One would think I could write a great article today, but … no. I can’t brain today, I haz the dumb. So instead, here’s a sweet song about fandom. Sung by: Vixy & Tony Written by: Tom Smith and Ron Balder. *…and if you are curious about fan…
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Read more: Kraft Dinner Mix-Ins
Kraft Dinner Mix-Ins
I think part of what turned me off to the Food Network’s “Semi-Homemade” cooking show, even before I heard the host’s voice, was the very concept of a TV show built around variations on store-bought / prepackaged food. “People need to be told to do that?” and “God, how boring” where my thoughts. Then I heard her oh-so-annoying voice and caught a long, lingering shot…
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Read more: Some May Be Thinner Than They Think!
Some May Be Thinner Than They Think!
As if being naturally thin wasn’t bad enough, here comes this panic from Healthy Weight Today: Everyone’s aware of the dangers of being too thin, including increased risk of early death. But now concern is rising that some people who may be technically fat may not have enough body fat to actually be healthy. Weight researcher Ima Kidder states, “Some folks who are in the healthy…
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Read more: March Round-Up
March Round-Up
This is partly for me, and partly to show folks a little of what’s going on “behind the curtain”. I’ve considered calling it “Best of Living 400lbs” but I’m not sure it’s really the best articles…what do you think? March’s most popular posts: On Acceptance Why paying attention to weight can be good “Every Little Bit Helps!” Really? Depends Sometimes Exercise isn’t Fun 400lb Women are Rare….…
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