Morning Musings

I love my quiet time in the morning.

Seems I wake up, more often than not with the FID’s.  That’s:  Fear Of Impending Doom.  I don’t know why I seem to “come to” most days in this state, but, thank God (or Good Orderly Direction, or Source, or Universal Intelligence, or whatever you want to call it), I do know what to do about it. Continue reading “Morning Musings” »


April 23

Strategy:  Always exercise on a Monday. Why:  It sets the tone for the week.  I guarantee that if you charted your exercise patterns you would see that virtually every week with Monday exercise is a week with more exercise overall.  […]

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April 22

Strategy: Don’t miss more than three days of exercise in a row. Why:  For some reason that is the magic amount of time in which the warranty on your momentum expires and you wondered how you ever got yourself to […]

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April 21

Strategy:  Don’t be a sucker for a sale (or a buffet). Why:  I may have gotten six for the price of three, but I just spent money I never intended to spend in the first place!  And now I am […]

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March 1

Records can call my bluff on “just picking.”  How many times have I racked up hundreds of calories worth of damage grazing because I didn’t want to commit myself to a “real meal”?  I can stand in my kitchen at […]

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April 20

Strategy:  Eat the veggies first. Why:  Just logically they take up space so that you will eat less of other higher calorie items.  But there are two other important off-shoots of this strategy.  When you do eat the more tempting […]

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April 19

Strategy:  Give protein time to kick in – about 45 minutes.  (Variation on this theme:  hot food is more satisfying). Why:  Once it does, I am really OK.  This is a great strategy before going out or at the start […]

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