I recently came across a Readers Digest article on 50 Easy Ways To Lose Weight. (Actually, they gave us almost sixty.) Some are a little out there, some a little mundane, but a few were really interesting. Here are some of my favorites.
4. Carry a palm-size notebook everywhere you go for one week. Write down [...]
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Old Lent Out, New Lent In
Posted in Diet, Health, Honesty, Morality, Self-Examination, tagged Diet, Health, Honesty, Morality, Self-Examination on March 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Well, today marks my first day freed from my secular lent obligation to not eat fried food. (Technically, yesterday was, according to my official sources.) I feel good. Surprisingly, I’m not rushing out to buy a big plate of French fries.
My mom used to tell me that it takes three weeks to get into a [...]
Secular Lent
Posted in Diet, Health, Self-Examination, tagged Diet, Health, Self-Examination on February 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
It’s come as a surprise to my friends, who know that I am not a practicing anything, to hear that this year I planned on participating in Lent. It’s not so much that I feel any religious obligation to, but that I believe in the value of abstaining from time to time.
Last fall, I had [...]
What It Takes To Be Happy: Health And Diet
Posted in Diet, Health, tagged Diet, Health on February 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today is the second of a four part series intended to get things rolling here. Enjoy!
It’s hard to be happy when your sick. Even if you aren’t sick, being out of shape, overweight, malnourished, tired, etc. doesn’t tend to encourage happiness.
So we have a good idea of what we don’t want, which is good. However, [...]
