It’s September, and for most of us in the Northern Hemisphere, that means one thing – winter’s coming. Ok, so it means more than one thing, but the fact is that the cold weather will be here before we know it. One of the challenges of eating right during the winter is, oftentimes, convenience – there’s no food in the house, and we don’t want to brave the cold weather to get something from the supermarket, so we order pizza, [...]
The last time you bought prepackaged food, did you notice the little blurb at the bottom that said, “Made in a facility that processes (fill in a potential allergen here)”? If you have any food allergies, you probably did. Or…maybe not. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that 2 percent of adults and 4 to 8 percent of kids in the U.S. have food allergies. These allergies cause around 150 deaths each year. Reactions in those with [...]
War on drugs, war on terror… war on food? Okay, your struggle with food. If I called it ‘the food fight’ some would misunderstand and we’d be scrubbing tomato and yogurt splatter off the walls for weeks. 1. It’s not about weight. We’ve made weight into such a bogeyman, many people who have read this blog all the way through my stupid “This is why extreme diets are bad for you” 100 days of starvation stunt still freak out if [...]
A study recently published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association stated that only 61.5% of people check the nutrition labels on their food before they buy it. In the past ten years, there’s been a lot of attention paid to those nutrition labels – to make them easier to read and easier to understand. But if only about 60% of people are reading them, what does that say about the effectiveness of the labels? Well, obviously they’re not [...]
“Being without you takes a lot of getting used to Should learn to live with it, but I don’t want to” ~ Chicago 193 lbs. Frak. I’m now 20 lbs lighter than when I entered my teens. That would be really bad if I hadn’t been such a corpulent teen that a friend of mine would run circles around me pretending he couldn’t escape my gravitational pull. I had my last can of tuna today. I mean that in two [...]
“People are more opposed to fur than leather because rich ladies are easier to harass than bikers.” ~ Bumper sticker 193.9 lbs. Weight loss from starvation, check. Muscle atrophy, check. Social isolation, check. Oy. I can’t emphasize enough that the reason I’m starving myself is to raise awareness of how we should eat, and why. I don’t condone it; in fact quite the opposite. If you’re overweight, it’ll take time to lose it safely. If you’re anorexic or bulimic and [...]
“Sigh. Got to go buy some food. A mouse hung itself in my fridge and left a note ‘can’t live like this‘.” ~ Ustas 197.4 lbs Okay – if you’re reading this blog you have some interest in nutrition. Or you just like the freak show of some dude starving himself, then bitching about it in daily articles. But since you are reading this, I’m going to take this time to tell you about some healthy foods that just… aren’t. [...]
“Caught up in life, losing all my friends Family has tried to heal all my addictions Tragic it seems, to be alone again I’m giving in to you” ~ Adema 199.8 lbs. I’ve been receiving congratulations on my “success” of dropping below 200 lbs. If you’re one of the people who emailed or tweeted me, I humbly thank you. For those readers just starting to read this blog, though, I have to emphasize again that I’m dropping weight in the [...]
“Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.” ~ Erma Bombeck 201.8 lbs. Getting close, but no cigar. Still, if I drop 2 lbs in the next 2 days I’ll still pass the pale of dropping 40 lbs in the first 50 days. I get a few emails of the “reads, shots, and leaves” variety – people who apparently skim an article and immediately start clacking the keys. They sound rather like [...]
“ The sun is shinin, In this rainy city And the sun is shinin, Ooh isn’t a pity That every year has it’s share of tears? Every now and then it’s gotta rain“ ~ Trooper 204.4 lbs Caution ~ The opening 5 paragraphs may contain emo. Skip ahead for the skinny on fibre. Getting close to the 200 lb. mark. With everything I know about how unhealthy this starvation diet is, and all the negative physical effects it’s having on [...]
It’s May. Birds are singing, bees are buzzing, flowers are blooming, and the gardening bug has bit. Don’t worry, it’s perfectly normal for this time of year. The important thing is to give you the help you need to get you through it to the wondrous moment known as harvest time! If you’ve never planted a garden before, here are some important steps for you to consider: How much space do you have? If you live in a house in [...]
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