Living ~400lbs

Day in the Life: Too Much Bum Glue?

DayInTheLife, Exercise, Work

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[One of the occasional series of posts about my typical day.] As noted elsewhere, my job requires bum glue. If a task is going well, I can get a lot done in an hour or two. But when I get up, well, maybe it’s a fat thing, maybe it’s an over-40 thing, but I feel stiff. It may take 6 or 8 steps before my gait relaxes…
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Day in the Life: Work Food

DayInTheLife, HAES

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[One of the occasional series of posts about my typical day.] I’ve debated whether to include the typical sort of food I eat or not. As it happens, I am. But you don’t have to read it if you don’t want to :)
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What’s My Cue?

Books, food, HAES

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Remember I posted about Health at Every Size, and one of my follow-ups was that it inspired me to make two changes to my eating habits? Eat foods with more fiber. Plan an afternoon snack. Well, I’ve been doing both of these for a few weeks now. The good: My blood sugar isn’t fluctuating as quickly as it was previously. My planned snacks are more satisfying than…
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Minnesota Starvation Experiment

Dieting/WLS, health, Mental health

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When a healthy, normal-weight person loses 25% of his body mass and looks emaciated, we see it as semi-starvation. When a healthy fat person loses 25% of her body mass and still looks fat, we see it as, “Oh, well, you still have more to lose” — even though the affect on mental health and metabolism may still be the same.
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Maybe I’m a zombie?

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From an IM conversation about this morning’s post… Me: Do you think I’m a zombie? D: Where’d the zombie bit come in? D: you aren’t trying to eat my brains. although, pieces of you did fall off this weekend.* Me: well, WW says I’m not living, but I’m not dead yet. So, am I undead? D: I don’t think I’ll even dignify that with an answer. WW…
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Surfing the web…

FatnessInGeneral, fluff, Mental health

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… and the web ads. Jillian Michaels Ad: How Much Do You Want To LOSE? Me: Do I have to? I mean, our retirement savings are down 33% already! The really annoying ones are the flash animations. Remember the woman who would “shrink” over and over and over and over? I kept running into that one on Yahoo! Mail. I found the distraction maddening. (See also: annoying…
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Friday Fun :)

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Happy Friday, everyone! Up here in Seattle the leaves are turning, some are falling, and it’s getting dark at 6pm. (This may not seem strange to those of you living further south, but it seems like yesterday that it was light until 9pm….) So, a poll:
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Tired Blogger is Tired

Exercise, Me

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We moved into our new workspace this week. The shiny, newly refurbished space is clean, brightly lit, and rather nice. We have a new “lounge” space, decks for occasional fresh air, and the new layout is more organized in a lot of ways. …and between the new carpet, new paint, and much brighter overhead lights I’ve had headaches all week. Any weight-related notes? Um, if I grasp…
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Day in the Life: Sitting at my desk

DayInTheLife, my knee h8s me

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I wasn’t even sure I’d write a Day in the Life post about work. What would I write? “I sit at my desk. I type, I mouse. Occasionally I go to a meeting.” (Of course there’s more to my work than typing and mousing. But if you were interested in the process of software development you’d probably be reading one of these books, not this blog ;)…
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Overweight Doesn’t Mean Unhealthy, But Lose Weight Anyway!

FatnessInGeneral, HAES, health, News

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Sarah Mahoney’s article on MSNBC (and Prevention magazine) looked promising: The overweight debate: Healthy and heavy? Has science overemphasized the danger of a few extra pounds? The article itself? Not so much. It does start off well, noting how people within the CDC’s “overweight” BMI range have longer life expectancies than those at “normal” weights … and adds However, no one’s debating that weight loss can be…
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