A post in my Facebook news feed today ominously warned that TWELVE EXCESS CALORIES a day will pack on a pound in a year! That’s two Saltines! Comments included thanks for the “wake up call” and a joke about breath mint consumption. In my book I call this “Magical Math.” It’s a popular fallback on …
November 2012 archive
Taking Control of Weight Loss: Doing What Needs to Be Done
I recently discovered a very interesting blog by a woman who is working on losing THREE HUNDRED pounds! She is a year out from having weight loss surgery and she’s doing everything right. She is exercising regularly and has actually become a devotee of Crossfit. But here’s what’s more important to know about her—She started …
The Paradox of the American Body Image
American culture is riddled with paradigmatic paradoxes in weight and weight loss, body image and body images. Trying to wrap your brain around them may twist your thoughts into knots. What comes to mind first is the immense value our culture puts on both physical beauty AND indulgent food. They cannot realistically co-exist! Yet, we …
Fad Diet Friday: “Thinking Thin”
This week’s fad diet book review is about “Thinking Thin,” the premise that somehow your biology and genetics will be trumped by simply thinking like a thin person! Wow, better than magic! You know it’s bad when a diet book tries to convince you you can’t think correctly. Click to view Fad Diet Friday: “Thinking …
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