Dancing?

At the BBW Bash I attended in Vegas, I was a bit surprised to find that Queen’s Fat Bottomed Girls was the “theme” song.  I hadn’t know the song (I grew up listening to Country & Western) but noticed it got everyone on the dance floor.
Are you gonna take me home tonight
Ah down beside that [...]

DayintheLife: Weight-Loss Evangelism

Inspired by Cherie’s post. [One of the occasional series of posts about my typical day.]
The last stranger who approached me about a weight loss program said it was a Christian program that her church was sponsoring.
I started laughing.
She looked shocked and stammered something.
I shook my head and told her no, diets don’t work.
She recovered a [...]

A Few Quotes

These are quotes that have stuck with me lately, so I thought I’d share.
“[E]ven extremely obese women still have a longer life expectancy than normal-weight men.”
— Paul Ernsberger, Ph.D.
“Yet, we are not being inundated with scares about the deadliness of being male, millions aren’t spent to eradicate maleness, and men make up a fraction of [...]

Shock: Fitness article that doesn’t mention weight

This near-mythical item appeared in The New York Times, reporting on the US Government’s latest physical activity guidelines.
Nothing about how exercising can cause weight loss.  Even when discussing beginners, weight loss does not come up:
The people who accrue the greatest health benefits from exercise go from doing nothing to doing something.
“A one-minute walk isn’t going [...]

DayInTheLife: Some weekends feel really short

[One of the occasional series of posts about my typical day.]
This was one of those weekends.  Laundry, errands, cleaning, laundry.  Oh, and catching up on sleep.  I also finished a couple murder mysteries, played some puzzle pirates, and had some quality time with the man of the house.
Yet it seems really short.
I think part of [...]

Day in the Life: Too Much Bum Glue?

[One of the occasional series of posts about my typical day.]
As noted elsewhere, my job requires bum glue.  If a task is going well, I can get a lot done in an hour or two.  But when I get up, well, maybe it’s a fat thing, maybe it’s an over-40 thing, but I feel [...]

Day in the Life: Work Food

[One of the occasional series of posts about my typical day.]
I’ve debated whether to include the typical sort of food I eat or not.  As it happens, I am.  But you don’t have to read it if you don’t want to :)

What’s My Cue?

Remember I posted about Health at Every Size, and one of my follow-ups was that it inspired me to make two changes to my eating habits?

Eat foods with more fiber.
Plan an afternoon snack.

Well, I’ve been doing both of these for a few weeks now.  The good:

My blood sugar isn’t fluctuating as quickly as it was [...]

Minnesota Starvation Experiment

When a healthy, normal-weight person loses 25% of his body mass and looks emaciated, we see it as semi-starvation. When a healthy fat person loses 25% of her body mass and still looks fat, we see it as, “Oh, well, you still have more to lose” — even though the affect on mental health and metabolism may still be the same.

Maybe I’m a zombie?

From an IM conversation about this morning’s post…

Me:
Do you think I’m a zombie?

D:
Where’d the zombie bit come in?

D:
you aren’t trying to eat my brains. although, pieces of you did fall off this weekend.*

Me:
well, WW says I’m not living, but I’m not dead yet.  So, am I undead?

D:
I don’t think I’ll even dignify that with an [...]

Surfing the web…

… and the web ads.
Jillian Michaels Ad: How Much Do You Want To LOSE?
Me: Do I have to?  I mean, our retirement savings are down 33% already!
The really annoying ones are the flash animations.  Remember the woman who would “shrink” over and over and over and over?  I kept running into that one on Yahoo! [...]

Friday Fun :)

Happy Friday, everyone!  Up here in Seattle the leaves are turning, some are falling, and it’s getting dark at 6pm.  (This may not seem strange to those of you living further south, but it seems like yesterday that it was light until 9pm….)
So, a poll: