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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
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Skinny-to-Fat Photo Timeline
This Post is the “photos only” version…
After letting it stew in my brain for a couple of weeks I decided that I would post a “photo only version” of my earlier post:
A Scrapbook of Skinny and Not-so-Skinny Photos…
Why? I hear my dearest readers asking in unison?
Well, I recognize that the earlier post was WAY LONG (though fab-u-lus) and most of you probably just gave up and clicked away from it.
So, here is the the “Picture only” version for your enjoyment. It is your choice…
… keep scrolling for the “pictures and nuthin’ but the pictures version here on this page
OR
OR
Keep scrolling if you want the “just the photos” version. — oh my! decisions decisions decisions…
No, Virginia, I wasn’t always a “big guy”
I became a big guy because as the years have passed, I have not used my body as much as I used to do when I was younger.
I used to be fit. Now I’m not. So as a result of not being fit, I am fat and I am not healthy. Here’s the proof:
Presenting a Photo Timeline of me at various weights:
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A Scrapbook of Skinny and Not-so-Skinny Photos…
No, Virginia, I wasn’t always a “big guy”
I became a big guy because as the years have passed, I did not use my body as much as I used to do when I was younger.
I used to be fit. Now I’m not. So as a result of not being fit, I am fat and I am not healthy.
Some people are blessed with awesome genes like my friend Ragen Chastain who is incredibly fit, an amazing dancer, a marathon runner, a blogger and a spokesperson for the H.A.E.S. movement (Health at Every Size)
She is out on the end of the spectrum where “fit and fat” live happily in the same body.
I, alas, do not share that quality. On me, as it is with many people, the extra pounds are a visible symptom of being out of shape and unhealthy.
5-6-7-8 Dancing My Way to a Healthy Me! 