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Morning Musings: September 21

Sep 21, 2024

A calorie is not just a calorie to me when…this food jeopardizes my health.   I may not be overweight because of it since I balance my calories.  But I may die younger, albeit thin.  This is particularly applicable to me, […]

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Morning Musings: September 20

Sep 20, 2024

A calorie is not just a calorie to me when…this food tells my body to store fat.  Foods that elevate insulin levels, put me in fat storage mode.  Carbs and proteins raise insulin, with carbs raising it the most.  The […]

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Morning Musings: September 19

Sep 19, 2024

A calorie is not just a calorie to me…when eating this food does not displace any other food.  Seems like bread, especially at restaurants, is always in addition to the other food, not in place of it.  One of my […]

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Morning Musings: September 18

Sep 18, 2024

A calorie is not just a calorie to me when…I can’t tell if I am full with this food. It dissolves instantaneously in my saliva – like those 20 calorie puffed discs and rice cakes, and of course, any white […]

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Morning Musings: September 17

Sep 17, 2024

A calorie is not just a calorie to me when…I can smell the bread baking.  Smell is the most evocative of the senses.  If the smell continues, chances are the eating will too.  It baffles me how people can own […]

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Morning Musings: September 16

Sep 16, 2024

A calorie is not just a calorie to me when…I have associated that particular food, person, mood, place, smell with “unconscious hypereating” (a term coined by Dr. Kessler in The End of Overeating).  The circumstance itself has a history that […]

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Morning Musings: September 15

Sep 15, 2024

A calorie is not just a calorie to me when…I don’t need teeth to eat it.  Chewing is one of the main ways my brain gets signaled that I am eating.  If I don’t get the signal that I ate, […]

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Morning Musings: September 14

Sep 14, 2024

A calorie is not a calorie to me when…I feel badly about myself for eating it and then proceed to take it out on everybody else.  I remember one time at my sister’s when I asked her if she minded […]

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Morning Musings: September 13

Sep 13, 2024

A calorie is not just a calorie to me when…I it always takes me to “I blew it or I ruined it”.  This food always eventually gets me to that “I don’t care” place.  Salty sweet particulaly has this effect.  […]

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Morning Musings: September 12

Sep 12, 2024

A calorie is not just a calorie to me when…I am a “finisher”.  However much is available becomes the serving size – including complete sleeves.  I can’t safely make anything from scratch that requires a graham cracker crust, nuts or […]

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