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CoaFG: Eating More of Good > Less of Bad

August 4, 2010

From the time I started this journey up until around 2 weeks ago Megan and I went grocery shopping on a regular basis. 2 weeks ago we kept putting it off. Neither of us really wanted to go and I made the excuse that we could just keep eating the random stuff that we had [...]

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Fruit Through An MRI’s Eyes

August 2, 2010

This was way too cool to not share. Someone took the time to put a bunch of different fruits and vegetables through an MRI machine. The results are pretty cool. After this nice little warning I’ll give you the link: The following page is HUGE. With lots of moving gifs that take a while to [...]

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What Weight Loss Means To Me – Cindy Janovitz

August 2, 2010

Today’s post is a guest post by Cindy Janovitz. She is writing about her weight loss journey at Healthy Heart Journey. —————— The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind. ~G.K. Chesterton When I created my [...]

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Why Do You Delete Posts?

July 31, 2010

I asked the question yesterday on Twitter: Bloggers: How many times have you been nearly done with a post and decided you’re spewing bullshit and trashed it? I was actually a little bit surprised at the answers I got. The overall consensus was that a size-able percentage of posts written end up getting deleted. Why? For [...]

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CoaFG: Dez’s Thin Discrimination

July 29, 2010

Erica had a good point in her guest post “Thin Discrimination: Judging the Fit“. She talked about the judgements she made regarding what skinnier than her people would think of her and how there were specific examples of awesome human beings that proved her wrong. I do the same thing. I couldn’t believe it when she and [...]

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Thin Discrimination: Judging the Fit

July 27, 2010

Today’s post is a guest post by Erica Mayer. She and I are both on weight loss journeys of our own. We were having a conversation a few weeks ago regarding our unintentional judgement of what slim/thin people thought of overweight people. WE were making the choices for them instead of allowing them to make [...]

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CoaFG: Below 340: 20+ pounds gone

July 25, 2010

If you look at the chart on the right (assuming you’re on my site) you’ll see that I’ve not only dropped below 340 pounds but also I’ve dropped past my trend goal weight line. This means I’m back on track to my goal weight of 284 pounds by Halloween morning. I swear to you that [...]

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CoaFG: 5.08% Less Dez

July 22, 2010

As of this morning I surpassed the 5% mark in my weight loss goal. This is 18.3 pounds down from my original 360.0 heft. On June 15th of this year I weighed myself and saw a 360.0 pearing back at me from the scale. I took a picture at the time, but hadn’t yet decided [...]

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Review: All the Judd Apatow Movies Re-Mixed Into A Title

July 20, 2010

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The movie is titled “The 41-Year Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall and Felt Superbad About It”. There will be no spoilers in this review since I couldn’t finish the movie or even get more then 30 minutes into it before Megan and I looked at each other and said “We’re done”. Basically the [...]

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CoaFG: Not Exactly A Good Diet Book To Read

July 19, 2010

Toothpaste for Dinner posted a post titled “Diet: Final Phase” I have to say that I’m glad I won’t be following the advice in the book being read. However, the advice given would be a entirely tasty, pizza/donut/buttery/deep-fried good time… Yup, still craving the foods that got me to where I am, but I’ve been [...]

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