Years ago, a wonderful new commodity was born. White bread. And the housewives thought it was so light and such a wonderful appealing colour that they flocked to the stores to buy it. And then Kraft developed a pasta dinner that only took minutes to prepare. And so on and so forth. It wasn’t until [...]
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Posted in exercise, getting fit, health, losing weight, tagged fat, fit, healthy, I Can Make You Thin, Paul McKenna, thin on April 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
After watching “I Can Make You Thin” with Paul McKenna, I found myself thinking about words and their meanings, and I suddenly realized that we don’t actually have a word for “just right.”
“Fat” is never a positive word when used in North America to describe a human being. The word for “too fat” is “obese,” [...]
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I’ve been thinking more about what Paul McKenna said last week about losing weight by taking control of your cravings through associating a very negative taste (rotten, with worms, etc.) with whatever it is you crave. (I wrote about that in my last blog.)
I was struck by a memory from long ago. It’s not about [...]
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I started watching this program last week, kind of by accident.
Along with millions of other people, I hit a certain poundage at few years ago, and said, “this far and no further!” Since then, I’ve been trying to get to what I believe is a healthy weight. Not so much that i want to be [...]
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Posted in exercise, getting fit, goals, health, losing weight, tagged " sitting too much, "Chair Today, body's needs, Gone Tomorrow, just do it, just move, Nutrition Action, obesity on April 3, 2008 | No Comments »
1. Eat only what your body actually needs. Would you stuff sugar in your car’s gasoline tank? Give a bowl of it to your cat or dog? No? Then why put it inside your mouth? Sure it tastes good. Kind of. But it isn’t doing you a bit of good. We need to forget about [...]
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What’s on my mind right now is getting my physical body in shape to do the things I still want to do. In other words, I want to be as fit and healthy as possible.
So - what to do?
I think I’ve read enough books and magazines on the subject to write my own book. [...]
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At the start of each new year, many of us find ourselves thinking about goals. Okay, you might call them resolutions, but I try to have goals, which I think are a step up.
A resolution is an “I should.” As in “I should” lose weight, stop smoking, save some money, etc. A goal [...]
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