"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." ~ Confucius 177.8 lbs So you want to lose weight, and you're smart enough to not starve yourself as I did. Like many things in life it comes down to three little words: in this case, "diet and exercise". Creams and pills that promise to do the job for you are just sucker bait looking to rob you of your money....
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"I like rice. Rice is great if you are hungry and want 2000 of something." ~Mitch Hedberg 179.8 lbs. Yup. Passed the 180 barrier. I wonder how scrawny I'd be if I hadn't stalled out for 3 weeks... but considering I can now sometimes see my heart beat, I think I'd rather not know. I ate an entire greek salad today. Though it was mostly lettuce, it was bloody filling. I'm looking...
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"Most dear actors, eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath" ~ William Shakespeare 181.8 lbs I was going to call this article "The Scent Of A Man", but then who'd want to read it? :P I can't believe there's only a week left of this phase of the project. 13 weeks of starvation have come and gone. I can't say they've been a bed of roses, but making the transition back to...
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"You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe" ~ Morpheus 182.4 lbs People ask me if I've been taking supplements while undergoing this starvation project and without giving it much thought I've been answering 'yes'. What I should have said is I've been supplementing my vitamin and mineral intake, not "taking...
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"Man is free at the moment he wishes to be." ~Voltaire 185.8 lbs I've already written about the dubious environmental benefits of buying local, but there's no doubt that when it comes to pounds and pence it's better to give your money to local producers than have it shipped off to who knows where. In theory, the quality control can be higher if you're buying food produced under the watch...
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“I cook with wine. Sometimes I even add it to the food.” ~W.C.Fields 189.7 lbs 19 days ago I wrote about nutrition labels and my modest proposal for making them easier for the average consumer to understand - specifically highlighting ingredients that, based on the calories in that food, were higher than they should be. That way we wouldn't need to memorize our recommended daily intake...
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"The only time to eat diet food is while you are waiting for the steak to cook." ~ Julia Child 187.9 lbs Again my weight keeps bouncing *sigh*. And my body seems to be tiring of this whole ordeal. I've gone from sleepless nights to, lately, sleeping 9 to 10 hours a night, which is not necessarily a good thing. Usually if you require more than 8-9 hours on a regular basis that's a sign that...
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"T. Rex doesn't want to be fed, he wants to hunt. Can't just... suppress 65 million years of gut instinct." ~ Dr. Alan Grant 187.4 lbs. Yup, I'm back on the obese topic. Previously I wrote about how obese men experience a testosterone drop, which could lead to less sex drive. Ads put out by PETA claim "Studies show vegetarians have better sex" - well, like a lot of PETA's claims the...
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"Gooooooooooaaaaaaaaaal!" ~ Football announcers worldwide. And a few animal rights activists too. 188.4 lbs As my weight drops, the readership numbers (modestly) rise, and the days of starvation left tick down, it's easy for me to forget there are other things going on in the world. Unlike me, most of you aren't sitting around with hunger pains so you're aware there's the the World Cup...
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"It is bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician." ~Meryl Streep 190 lbs. How I gained more than 3 lbs overnight after eating about 350g of food, total, yesterday is a mystery to me. We'll see what tomorrow's scale reading is. One of my old high school friends just boasted on Facebook that she can still fit into the earrings she wore...
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