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Taking action! — More thoughts on “The Fat Trap” (pt. 3)
Part 3 in a series discussing The Fat Trap
I stumbled across a very interesting feature article when I was randomly clicking on links while browsing the web.
The Fat Trap / by Tara Parker-Pope,
12/28/2011 NYT Magazine
and it triggered something of a landslide of reaction and comments from me – more than would fit comfortably into a single post.
This blog post you are reading now is part THREE of my extended commentary on this most awesome article.
Keep reading if you like but things will make more sense if you jump back and read part one of the series:
“The Fat Trap” NYT Article — A proverbial fire under my butt
Then you should read part two
More thoughts on the “Fat Trap” — Trying not to strangle skinny people…
So, if you’ve read parts one & two, then Welcome Back! This is the final post in the series.
OR
if you’ve not read parts 1 & 2 but you enjoy reading the end of mystery novels first, then keep reading
Either way… here we go!
People actually do succeed – Not many – but a few have managed to do it.
The thing that made this article different from others that I’ve read is that the author talked about some people who have managed to beat the odds. They did it. They lost the weight, got fit and MANAGED TO KEEP THE WEIGHT OFF AND STAY FIT!
In fact, there is even a registry for people who have managed to succeed set up by Dr. Rena R. Wing and Dr. James O. Hill
The National Weight Control Registry tracks 10,000 people who have lost weight and have kept it off. “We [Dr. Wing & Dr. Hill] set it up in response to comments that nobody ever succeeds at weight loss,” … … “We had two goals: to prove there were people who did, and to try to learn from them about what they do to achieve this long-term weight loss.”
Hyper-Vigilance is the answer
You have to become “Obsessed” (in a good way) with maintaining a healthy body
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More thoughts on the “Fat Trap” (pt. 2) — Trying not to strangle skinny people…
Part 2 in a series discussing The Fat Trap
I stumbled across a very interesting feature article when I was randomly clicking on links while browsing the web.
The Fat Trap / by Tara Parker-Pope,
12/28/2011 NYT Magazine
and it triggered something of a landslide of reaction and comments.
This blog post you are reading now is part two of my extended commentary on this most awesome article.
Keep reading if you like but things will make more sense if you jump back and read Part One first.
A moment to address “fat” and “fit” and the messy place half way between them
English is sometimes wonderful and sometimes it is awful. And in this case it is awful. Why? because in this case it Read the rest of this entry
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“The Fat Trap” NYT Article — A proverbial fire under my butt
The last week of July, this year, I ran across an article…
…and it created an explosion in my head.
It was the proverbial match thrown onto a powder keg.
It was the key for a lock.
It was the AAA battery needed to make the toy work on Christmas morning.
It was the catalyst needed to make the chemical solution crystallize.
It was the final piece of the puzzle.
It was a trigger, the “thing” that got me moving again. It was an epiphany.
Simply put, and all cliches aside, it was exactly what I needed to read at exactly the right moment.
The article presented some information which I already knew but in a different way AND far more importantly, it presented some information which was completely, absolutely, brand new to me.
Those few bits of new information put everything into perspective — suddenly everything just clicked into place. I knew how I could move forward and succeed this time where so many times before I had tried and failed.
Lucky Link…
I have no idea what I was looking for when I found this article. Seriously! But something made me Read the rest of this entry
5-6-7-8 Dancing My Way to a Healthy Me! 