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Morning Musings: January 1

Jan 1, 2024

I think I always considered myself far too complex an individual for the simple solutions.  Making a menu, I thought, is for beginners, amateurs.  Controlling the environment?  For wimps.  Turns out, these simple steps will usually take care of about […]

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Just Interesting Stuff: April 21

Apr 21, 2023

Records help me notice if something is changing in my pattern.  If I suddenly need two pages for each day’s record when before I needed one, or vice versa, there are three items that add up to triple my actual […]

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Just Interesting Stuff: April 17

Apr 17, 2023

Strategy:  Find the tipping point…ideally before I cross it.  If I do something I really regret…apparently I crossed it. Why:  Because once I cross it, all bets are off!  “I don’t care” is a dangerous place for me and has […]

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Just Interesting Stuff: March 31

Mar 31, 2023

Records help me decide if something is worth it to me.  Rather than addressing my food choices from the perspective of some diet program or some nutritionist is “allowing” me to eat a food, I get to decide if it […]

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Morning Musings: March 31

Mar 31, 2023

The food plan itself is huge, but still only one piece of the puzzle.  It is not the entire fix, but without it, it is hard to ever get to the rest of it.  I get undermined by my own […]

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Just Interesting Stuff: March 1

Mar 1, 2023

“Just tell me what to eat and I will eat it”. How many times have I said that and wished it were that simple? I am so glad that eventually I figured out two important things: one, I have zero […]

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Morning Musings: April 29

Apr 21, 2022

If I can assess and predict the expenditure, then if I can’t stop myself from doing it, the at least I can bank for it.  I had been unable or unwilling to break my night snacking habit for years, but […]

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Morning Musings: February 2

Feb 2, 2022

As soon as I hear the words “if” in any sentence involving my lifestyle plans, I know am giving myself an out.  Abraham-Hicks call it “arguing for your limitations”.  I have noticed that if my willingness is conditional, so are […]

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Morning Musings: February 1, 2011

Feb 1, 2022

On my knees again.  Felled again by my “evil twin”.  How many February’s have I been here, totally demoralized by my own failures yet again, desperately planning to lose weight (and this time keep it off) for the umpteenth time?  […]

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Just Interesting Stuff: Keeping It Simple Sustenance for Cycling

Jan 3, 2021

When my cycling club asked me if I would write an article on nutrition for the MasterLink (their newsletter) I initially balked.  First, sports nutrition is not my specific area of expertise. Besides I thought, many cyclists are already “on […]

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