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Morning Musings: November 11

Nov 11, 2024

I can figure out from past experience exactly how much I might need to bank to net out with no weight gain January 1.  It’s not unlike knowing how much I spent on presents the year before and paying in […]

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Morning Musings: November 10

Nov 10, 2024

There are 42 days between Thanksgiving and New Years – plenty of time to overindulge and still balance the budget.

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Morning Musings: November 9

Nov 9, 2024

Figure out what aspect of the season is your biggest Achille’s heel (being too busy, stress, baking and cooking, entertaining, people’s parties, exercise drops out, junk you allow in your house, the influence of other people) and then make plans […]

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Morning Musings: November 8

Nov 8, 2024

When I abandon my good habits, now I have two problems: one = eating too much of the wrong stuff, and two = not eating enough of the right stuff.  This is one of the basic problems with extremely low […]

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Morning Musings: November 7

Nov 7, 2024

Don’t lose the good habits – keep your basic nutrition going.  You can still get your basic nutrition in and have plenty of room to play.  Fortunately, healthy food doesn’t take up that much space in your budget.  I know […]

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Morning Musings: November 6

Nov 6, 2024

Make room for calories out – keep your exercise routine in place.  It is so easy to let calories in and who doesn’t want to during the holidays?  I remember the first time I attended the special Thanksgiving morning classes […]

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Morning Musings: November 5

Nov 5, 2024

Skinny days – I keep the regular habit of skinny days each week (especially now) and typically don’t overeat when I didn’t need to just because it is the holidays.  There are plenty of days that are not parties (OK, […]

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Morning Musings: November 4

Nov 4, 2024

Number Three – Don’t screw up your regular good habits by opening doors that have nothing to do with the holiday.  Melanie works at an office that always has bagels and fixin’s.  She has worked hard to break this habit.  […]

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Morning Musings: November 3

Nov 3, 2024

Number Two – Be discriminating – I try to stay focused on what is special for the holidays and don’t end up with a lot of extras that I could have had anytime.  There are just more opportunities to eat […]

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Morning Musings: November 2

Nov 2, 2024

Number One – Protect your environment.  I think that we all often make it ten times harder than it has to be by allowing far more tempting things into our home environments during the holidays that we would never have […]

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