So true!
Alice Randall in the NYTimes’ op-ed Black Women and Fat (the whole article is well worth a read):
I expect obesity will be like alcoholism. People who know the problem intimately find their way out, then lead a few others. The few become millions.
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Regular readers know that I recently completed my Mat Lalonde-inspired Approach for Lent. MMLAFL was, for me, an elimination diet of sorts: no grains, dairy, nightshades, or sweeteners (natural or artificial). It was basically Mat Lalonde (eat meat and veggies) meets Terry Wahl (eat greens, sulfurous veggies like broccoli and cauliflower, and colorful veggies); you can see a typical day here.
And while I originally planned on doing it for Lent (~46 days), I wound up extending it until April 21st when my next blood work was scheduled at my weight loss doc’s.
Well, I got my blood work back today, and all I can say is: shut the eff up!!
My fasting insulin is 4.
Like this:
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Here’s a QOTD two-fer on exercise! First up, David Csonka on exercise excuses:
Just be smart, and use your head, except when your head is trying to talk you out of exercising for no good reason.
And here’s NYTimes’ columnist Gretchen Reynolds, author of the recently published “The First 20 Minutes: Surprising Science Reveals How We Can Exercise Better, Train Smarter, Live Longer.”
What is lost in that is that fitness is almost certainly more important than fatness. … If you have to choose, choose to be fit, whether you lose weight or not.
Read both posts for more goodness.
I do very little “formal” exercise, but am trying to be as active as possible all the time.
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I’m experimenting with other social media spaces. I’ve been on Facebook and Twitter for a while and am now branching out to Tumblr and Pinterest. These other social media sites complement my blog but will not duplicate it.
I hope you’ll join me on your favorite site or leave a comment about someone I should be following in the comments. Thanks!!
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Via Myra’s Journey comes this great quote from the Bhagavad Gita:
On action alone be thy interest, never on its fruits.
As Myra points out in her post:
If our actions are the main thing, the weight will come off. Our plans should revolve around our behaviors and what we do – period.
I recall that Yoni Freedhoff wrote something similar and via the Google found his take from quite a while back:
To put it simply, what moves the number on the scale is not the act of standing on the scale, it’s what you’re doing and choosing during the times you’re not standing on the scale. It’s your lifestyle and your choices that change your weight. You need to determine how you’re doing by how you’re doing.
Besides, the closer you get to your goal, the less useful the number on the scale is anyway!
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Weight Maven is written by Beth Mazur. Beth believes that obesity is more symptom than cause and that the real problem is our Western diet -- especially sugar, refined grains, and industrial oils. Beth writes about nutrition, ancestral health & food policy. And cats!
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