As part of my continuing quest to find a miracle diet that lets me eat honeybuns, taffy, and cookie dough and still weigh 110 pounds, for healthy living and a balanced diet, I’m looking into the so-called Mediterranean Diet. I’m not sure I’ve completely figured out what I’m supposed to eat, but apparently lots of [...]
On Father’s Day, after several weeks of angelically eating only good carbohydrates, I experienced multiple carbgasms. My personal Hunger Monster won. Below is a refresher on the definition of carbgasm. Today I am submitting a new word: Remorsel – feeling of guilt after engaging in carbgasms. “Bertha is filled with remorsel after the the birthday [...]
Today Fat Fighter TV looks at snacks. When do you snack and how is it derailing your attempts to lose wait? Me – I get a hankering for a snack every afternoon. Bad bad bad!
We’re doing some home renovations here and it’s like a blast furnace for weight loss! Here are the Top ? Reasons Renovation Amps Up Your Diet! 1. Carrying a toilet is harder than deadlifting. 2. Construction dust dulls your olfactory senses. (Love the smell of drywall in the morning!) 3. Walking up and down the [...]
According to my pedometer, Eddie Fisher, I walked 11,000 steps yesterday. This is slightly under the goal of 12,000 steps a day. But to my amazement, while participating in the Walk-It Challenge through Weight Watchers I think I’ve actually increased my n0n-exercise walking, significantly, a lot, tons. That’s amazing right, that I’m more active on [...]
I accept that the hot bodies displayed on television or magazine covers are totally unrealistic. I’m not an idiot and my self-esteem is okeedokee. In fact I just checked the dip stick and we’re good. Yes I want health and that has become the main goal of my food choices and exercise. I’m 40 and that mantra has soaked in just fine. Health [...]
In 1954 psychologist William Sheldon classified people’s body types and then associated the body type with typical temperaments. It went like this…. Ectomorphic body are bananas. We’re talking long arms and legs, short upper bodies, higher forheads, narrow shoulders and generally more “nervous tissue.” I don’t know what “nervous tissue” is but the idea is [...]
Good naturualists journal their observations about nature, naturally. Here are my thoughts one year ago when I began my first vegetable garden. The price of every thing is going up. And I like to buy everything. The food crisis and reports of rationing at bulk food superstores are enough portent of doom-wise to fire a [...]
In the on-going low carb versus low fat diet war the latest round goes to Atkins or Meditteranean style eating. That’s a link to the Wall Street Journal article on this big diet news. But here, look at this Googliciousness if you want further evidence of this diet news. Still if you tell someone you’re [...]
carbgasm- The sensation experienced when one breaks with a no-carbohydrate diet. Moaning often accompanies a carbgasm. Properly cited from the Dtbmulf Dictionary. Many of us have seen great success with the low carb Atkins and South Beach type diets. It’s easy to see why. There’s almost immediate success with a quick water weight loss of [...]
