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And on Friday, I rest and think a lot.
Today is my most appreciated day – Rest Day Friday. I get to sleep in past 5a and don’t think for one second I don’t take full advantage of that! I have a few things on my mind that I wanted to talk about today and they are totally unrelated so bear with me. First,…
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News to Note
Top Empowered Patient tips for 2010 – CNN.com. Having had a lot of personal experience being part of the patient side of the medical experience – helpful tips are always welcome. # 3. If you are going to use the Web, search smart is the only one that I think you should be careful with.…
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The view home..
Look at the amazing view I get to drive home in after boot camp. I wish my crackberry could capture how pretty it was.
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Couldn’t find a good excuse…
Let me say it: This month’s Thursday Camp at Plumbline is now my least favorite routine. I was searching, hunting, hungry for a good excuse to not go this morning. Hello?? Where is the ice, where is the snow, where is a fever — pink eye anyone??? But — I could not find any excuse…
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Help yourself and your kids: Don’t diet – CNN.com
The 6-year-old girl who is watching her mother suck in her stomach in front of the mirror is going to look at her belly poking out and immediately think that she is fat. How awful that we just inadvertently planted the seed of lifelong discontent with her body into the innocent mind of a 6-year-old.…
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News to Note
Biggest Loser’s Erik Chopin: Losing Again on Discovery Health – That’s Fit. I like to read stuff like this that really puts on display the reality of weight loss. Let’s not sugar coat how hard it is for TV. I am not happy that he gained a bunch of weight back, but it goes to…
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Is Google Making Us Stupid? – The Atlantic (July/August 2008)
Nietzsche replied, “our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts.” Under the sway of the machine, writes the German media scholar Friedrich A. Kittler , Nietzsche’s prose “changed from arguments to aphorisms, from thoughts to puns, from rhetoric to telegram style.” via Is Google Making Us Stupid? – The Atlantic (July/August 2008).…
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Healthier Buffalo Chicken Wing Dip Recipe
I have made this really yummy Buffalo Chicken Wing Dip for a few parties this holiday season and I am always asked about it. I got the recipe from my friend Mel. It is not KIC by any means. Today I got the HG newsletter and saw this alternative. I am going to give it…
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Shopping for trouble…
Take a look at Mel’s blog post with the picture of someone food shopping at her local grocery store. That cart is full of shit food. The Clothes Make the Girl: Grocery Cart of Poison. I can’t tell you how many times I go to Wegman‘s and see carts just like this. I like to…
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Last week in the 4 week group training…
Today’s group training workout at Plumbline was the last week of the 4 week session. So that mean’s weigh in PLUS body fat measurement. I stayed the same weight however I was down half a percentage (.5%) in body fat. MT said that if I lose another 1% he is going to throw a Plumbline…