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  • Bad News Can Ruin Your Whole . . . Diet (If You Let It)

    Normally, I’d be halfway through a pint of Chunky Monkey right now. First disappointment: My daughter and I were at the grand opening of Nordstrom Rack in Durham this a.m., as planned. Didn’t win the $2,000 shopping spree, but as I quickly discovered, it wouldn’t have done me much good: The store doesn’t carry plus…

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  • Say it With Me: The ’Bers Are Here!

    I am so excited. It’s September, finally, and despite temps (again) in the mid-90s, I’ve already changed my screensaver to a fall scene, and am going to treat myself to a manicure and luscious, deep red nail polish. I even created a nickname for this, my most favorite time of year: “The ’Bers” – as…

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  • As Simple as a Walk in the Park

    I am hot, sweaty and pretty happy. The first two because I just returned from walking and jogging a couple of miles, the last one due to the endorphins triggered by the first two. It’s just after 1 p.m., and the temp is somewhere north of 95 degrees. I don’t like exercising in the afternoons…

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  • Birthday Confession: Let’s Just Say I Pulled an ‘Oprah’

    In other words, I gained, then lost, then gained the same pounds over and over again this month. Right now, I’m at 258 and holding – down the same 37 pounds I started the month with. However, I had lost an additional three pounds the first week, but managed to pack on six over a…

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  • It’s Official: I’m Going Vegetarian

    Not sure if that’s phrased correctly. Maybe it’s “turning” or “becoming” vegetarian, but that’s not accurate, either, because it sounds like I’m readying myself for initiation to some secret society. Fact is, I’ve been living the vegetarian lifestyle for two weeks now, and it seems to suit me. Yesterday, though, I had a serious craving…

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  • A Mean Case of 'August Affective Disorder'

    I’ve really slacked off on exercising this month, something I truly hate to admit. I’m very good at convincing myself I’m too busy or too sleepy to get to the gym, which is mostly true, but not a valid excuse. Like a lot of folks working hard to get the pounds off, I get incredibly…

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  • Are Cows Turning Us Into . . . Well, Cows?

    Surely you’ve noticed, especially in the last few weeks, when the national obsession encompassed all things back-to-school. If you’ve passed a school bus stop, attended an open house or helped a loved one unpack at college, there’s no way you missed the disproportionate amount of overweight and obese African-American children, teens and young adults. Our…

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  • You Know What They Say About Assumptions

    Time was, people thought they could tell a vegetarian just by looking at her: thin, pale and other adjectives for malnourished. From what I’ve seen and heard the past 10 days, nothing could be further from the truth. Unless they’re wearing some sort of scarlet letter – or would that be green? – there’s no…

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  • Note to Self: Trial-and-Error Not the Smartest Route to Healthier Eating

    I’ve learned a couple of things the hard way about vegetarianism, further evidence I should do more reading up on this stuff, but hey – that would take some of the fun out it. Friday, I loaded up on gummy multivitamins, gummy vitamin D, then spent about a half-hour in the breakfast cereal aisle, trying…

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  • Day 4 as a Vegetarian: My Digestive Tract Has a Few Comments

    My body is so sensitive to change of any kind; I refer to my intestines as my central nervous system. I suppose that’s where terms like “gut reaction” and “go with your gut” originate. Still, the changes were so pronounced, I had to look up correlations among vegetarian diets and those of omnivores. Here’s what…

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