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  • ‘Biggest Loser’ Fitness Resorts? I’d Go in a Heartbeat

    Frankly, I didn’t even know these things existed until I read this USA Today story. I’ve talked about so-called “fat camps” in the past, but those are geared toward teens. I don’t know about places for adults. Maybe if I took the time to research them, surely I would have come across these resorts. If…

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  • Blogging from Bed

    I am so sick. Today’s entry will be shorter than others. (Wait. Is that applause I hear?) I have chills, but my temperature is just a degree or two off right now. The worst part is the nausea and dizziness. Not sure what this is, but it feels like a 24-hour bug. I struggled to…

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  • Keeping Exercise-Induced Asthma on a Short Leash

    Tanner, the family dog, was treated to a long-overdue pedicure Friday, so now he can stop slipping and sliding on the hardwoods, and cease aerating our clothes. Just about every t-shirt in this house has a tiny hole or 10 along the hemline – punctured by Tanner’s talon-like toenails every time he’d jump up to…

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  • It Was Gravity. That’s My Story, and I’m Sticking To It.

    I could hardly lift myself off the mat. Now that was disappointing. We’d just finished doing planks, and were suppose to shift to the side-plank position. Kate the trainer and the one other soul in our modified boot camp moved with ease and grace. Me, I rolled onto my right side and became completely confused.…

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  • Why Are Thousands of Teens Having (Unapproved!) Weight-Loss Surgery?

    Weight-loss surgery surges among California kids, especially white girls. That was the headline on a story in yesterday’s Los Angeles Times. Before I continue, let’s pause for a minute and say a prayer for their misguided parents . . . Amen. Now: What in the hell were the parents thinking? Bariatric surgery IS NOT approved…

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  • Bill Clinton, Weight Loss and Vegetarianism

    Is he or isn’t he? Folks are still talking about Bill Clinton’s vegetarian turn. For me, it’s Week 6, and the barbecue chicken wings I made for the fam last night were calling my name. Still, not enough to want to take a bit. However, the Red Lobster commercials are wearing me down, emphasis on…

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  • Why Are Overweight Black Girls’ Clothes So Doggone Tight?

    Time was, if you were too fat for your clothes, you either had to wear something of your mother’s or father’s or skip school – anything but wear something obviously too small and too tight. Back in the day, girls would wear coats in the classroom if seams or buttons tore loose on a blouse…

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  • 50 Pounds Lost, Yet Serious Issues Remain

    At long last, the halfway mark. It was a tough summer, full of ups and downs, and that’s never good when it comes to the scale. I’d wanted to celebrate the 50-pound point by giving myself a gift of some significance – like eyebrows (permanent makeup) – but a reader agreed I should wait until…

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  • Cooler Weather, Comfort Foods and Cheating

    I fell off both the vegetarian and the weight-loss wagon last night. And it wasn’t even worth it. We’ve had something like 33 straight days without a drop of rain, a record-setting year for days 90 degrees and above, and a September hotter than July. So when the heavens opened up and the rain fell…

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  • For Whom the Kettlebell Tolls

    I caved in and bought my very own kettlebell yesterday. If I had waited until today, there’s no way on God’s green earth I would have done so, because I am seriously sore from yesterday’s workout. We did quite a bit of ab work toward the end of yesterday morning’s workout. Well, Kate the instructor…

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