I had an interesting language and cultural experience with my 6th graders yesterday. What’s sad is that it dovetails right into the whole weight-loss issue and how we, as a culture, are obsessed with skinniness. Not healthy slimming but skinniness. We’re refreshing our memories about the use and meaning of specific prefixes. One of the [...]
Entries from January 28th, 2010
Misrepresentation and the 6th Grade
January 28th, 2010 · Comments Off · Just Thoughts, weight loss (again)
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Ten in 10 Weekly Review #3
January 26th, 2010 · Comments Off · Ten in 10 Challenge
Are you sensing a theme to my updates? Like they’re getting later every week? Hopefully this weekend I’ll be back to Saturday postings. My last few weekends have been terribly busy–as in out of town busy–and I just haven’t had the time to catch up. But I am still working hard… Last week was slightly [...]
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Attitude (And Belt) Adjustment
January 20th, 2010 · 1 Comment · FoodLife, Just Thoughts, weight loss (again)
In contemplating the many reasons for my diets (if you want to call them that) failing in the past, one of the biggest, IMHO (which is all that matters here on my blog) is the need, the necessity and the basic human compulsion to get results right away. By results, I don’t mean progress. I [...]
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Ten in 10 Weekly Review #2
January 18th, 2010 · Comments Off · 2010 Resolution...For Real This Time, Ten in 10 Challenge
A few days late and mega-dollars short. Sue me! Last week was, hands-down, the second worst week of my life. The first was almost exactly one year ago when my brother nearly died three separate times in a span of three months. That’s not something a big sister (he’s seven years younger than me) should [...]
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Demons
January 13th, 2010 · Comments Off · 2010 Resolution...For Real This Time, Just Thoughts
Over the course of achieving any worthy goal, there are going to be baby problems and massive obstacles. The key to success is to plan ahead for the baby problems on a daily basis–preparing both mentally and physically–thereby building your strength to face the massive obstacles when they arise. If it’s done right, it can [...]
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The “F” Word
January 11th, 2010 · Comments Off · FoodLife, Just Thoughts
Don’t revolt. My title’s not referring to the F word you’re thinking of. (Potty mouth!) I’m thinking of the other F word– Fat. Most of my adult life (for me, it began at age 19, when I got married), I’ve thought of and referred to myself as fat. The fat girl, fatso, fatty-licious. Even my [...]
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Ten in 10 Weekly Review #1
January 10th, 2010 · Comments Off · Ten in 10 Challenge
Since I signed up for the Ten in 10 Challenge (10 weeks of working toward healthy goals) and blogged about it last week , I’m feeling the social media pressure to give an update as promised. Not that I’m resisting…I actually have a little bit of good stuff to report. As you’ll recall, my Ten [...]
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He knows if you’ve been bad or good…or sleeping around…
January 8th, 2010 · Comments Off · Not Food...read at your own risk
*non-food post coming. Just warning you in case you’re here looking for another example of my witty culinary humor–don’t want you to be disappointed. Contrary to popular belief (and I am popular, just check out all the people who think they know me on Facebook…), my life doesn’t revolve around food. Alright, you know me [...]
Shut Up and Say Thank You
January 7th, 2010 · Comments Off · FoodLife, Just Thoughts
Have you ever had a problem and not known you’ve had a problem until someone mentions it? Maybe you’re always tapping your pencil when you think. Or pacing the room when you’re nervous. Or randomly stealing silverware from fancy restaurants. Whatever your vice, when it’s brought up, brought out into the open, it’s almost see [...]
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Ten in 10 Challenge…now how’s that for a gift horse?
January 5th, 2010 · Comments Off · Ten in 10 Challenge
I might be a real smarty-pants in general but I have a very strong belief the in fact that there are opportunities all around you to help you meet your goals once you set them in place–you just gotta open your eyes. I had no more than posted Technically, I Didn’t Screw Up…Yet…and surfed to [...]
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